<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">SM,<br>Not sure i fully understood your first question.<br><br>This policy is meant to help in the transition from v4 to v6, and as such every initiative to help people move in the direction of v6 would be a good one. one of them is availing the addresses (if they don't have any)<br><br>Regards,<br>Douglas onyango +256(0712)981329<br>
If you are not part of the solution, your are part of the Problem.<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 5/13/09, SM <i><sm@resistor.net></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: SM <sm@resistor.net><br>Subject: Re: [AfriNIC-rpd] Softlanding Proposal Update<br>To: "Douglas Onyango" <ondouglas@yahoo.com><br>Cc: rpd@afrinic.net<br>Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 5:26 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi Douglas,<br>At 00:15 13-05-2009, Douglas Onyango wrote:<br>> This is the most recent Version of the Softlanding Policy Proposal.<br><br>[snip]<br><br>> (ii) Exhaustion Phase:<br>> <br>> During the exhaustion phase, the following allocation and assignment policy for the last /8 IPv4 address will be used:<br>> a) Instead of the /22 block (1024) addresses allocated in the current policy, the new minimum allocation size of /23 (512 addresses) will be allocated to
any LIR that requests for IPv4 resources. This is also the maximum allocation size, even though LIRs may request for more than a /23. No LIR may get more than 4 additional allocations once the Exhaustion phase has begun.<br><br>Which are four additional allocations being proposed during the Exhaustion phase?<br><br>> b) Together with the v4 allocation, AfriNIC shall allocate an IPv6 address block in compliance with the current IPv6 allocation policy (<<a href="http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v6200407-000.htm" target="_blank">http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v6200407-000.htm</a>><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v6200407-000.htm" target="_blank">http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v6200407-000.htm</a>) to the LIR (in case it doesn't have any).<br><br>I don't see why this is being proposed as part of a soft landing proposal. I suggest removing any mention of IPv6 as that is already covered under
the current IPv6 allocation policy.<br><br>Regards,<br>-sm <br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>