<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hello SM,<br>Thanks for the comments.<br>>It would be clearer if you use the text proposed by Scott Leibrand:<br><br> "During the exhaustion phase, the following allocation and assignment<br> policy for IPv4 addresses will be used:"<br>><br><br>We haven't agreed in principle to include resources that will be available to AfriNIC at the time but outside the /8 - i think it is important for us to agree on this then this bit and the Incentives, summary et al below can be changed among other things:-<br><br>>This document proposes a strategy for allocation and maintenance of AfriNIC's final /8 block of IPv4 from IANA<br><br>I personally am ok with it, and i assume Scott and SM are.......does anyone have objections?<br><br>Also very important is for us to address both PA/PI assignment - What is you take on addressing Assignment and
allocation in the same policy?<br><br>I personally don't mind doing it, but like McTim (i believe) pointed out a while ago...the proposal seems to do too much.<br><br><br>Regards,<br>Douglas Onyango +256(0712)981329<br>
Life is the educators practical joke in which you spend the first half learning, and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first was wrong.<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 5/16/10, 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] IPv4 Soft Landing Policy<br>To: "Douglas Onyango" <ondouglas@yahoo.com><br>Cc: rpd@afrinic.net<br>Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 8:39 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi Douglas,<br>At 01:14 16-05-10, Douglas Onyango wrote:<br>> The proposal as is only caters for the /8 - there is general argument that the policy tries to do very many things at the same time, but i am personally ok with taking care of address space other than /8 when that time comes. This however is the foundation on which this policy is built hence calling of a fundamental change in
overall direction. wonder what everyone else thinks......<br><br>According to the Summary:<br><br> "This will be the last IPv4 address space request that AfriNIC will accept<br> from any LIR in the Current Phase, AfriNIC, will declare that the Exhaustion<br> Phase has begun at this point."<br><br>It would be clearer if you use the text proposed by Scott Leibrand:<br><br> "During the exhaustion phase, the following allocation and assignment<br> policy for IPv4 addresses will be used:"<br><br>Regards,<br>-sm <br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>