<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi All,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Below is a summary of the above policy as per the discussions we have had so far.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>So far, we have the following arguments:</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(a) Andrew Levin <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>(30.01.2007)</DIV><DIV>proposed that we should not assign prefixes < /48 due to concerns about the global routing table</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(b) Frank Habitcht <SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>(30.01.2007)<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></SPAN></DIV><DIV>was in agreement that there was need for PI assignments < /48 especially in the case of IXP's since the prefix would not appear in the global routing table.<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(c) Mark Elkins<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>(01.02.2007)</DIV><DIV>Suggested that each /48 assignment should be made from a unique /32 (which should be preserved to accommodate growth)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>From the above points:</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>(b) above seems to have outweighed (a) above and as such we should allow for the assignment prefixes < /48 as per the draft.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>as for (c) above, organisations which require >= /32 should become an LIR.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In conclusion, it seems that the draft policy should remain as it is.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><B>Currently statistics:</B><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>* Yea (those in support of the policy)<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>:<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>6</DIV><DIV>* Nay (those _not in support of the policy)<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>:<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>1</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Finally, I wish to encourage more members of the community to give their views on this policy, or at least indicate whether they are in favour of it or not.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Abuja is only 5 weeks away!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-v</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 30, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Andrew Alston wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="color:#1F497D">Hi Vincent,<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="color:#1F497D"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="color:#1F497D">I’m ok with all of this except for the following:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:" helvetica","sans-serif""=""> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></P> </DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal">* The intial provider independent assignment size to an end-site should be a /48, or a shorter/longer prefix if the end-site can justify it.<O:P></O:P></P> </DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:" helvetica","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"=""><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"="">I’m happy with /48s, I’m even happier with bigger blocks, but there should *<B>NEVER</B>* be a situation where the block is smaller than this in the global routing tables. If the blocks can ever be smaller than /48 in size it is going to create major BGP filtering headaches.<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"=""><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"="">Can this wording be clarified?<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"=""><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"="">Many Thanks<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"=""><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"="">Andrew Alston<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:" calibri","sans-serif";="" color:#1f497d"="">TENET – Chief Technology Officer<O:P></O:P></SPAN></P> </DIV> </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">resource-policy mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:resource-policy@afrinic.net">resource-policy@afrinic.net</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/resource-policy">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/resource-policy</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>