<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">McTim,<br><br>1st, this being a "policy" platform, i would appreciate less abreviations and more straight english. SL, AFAIK, etc can only serve to increase confusion ;-).<br><br>2ndly, I do appreciate the bit about "out of africa" operators needing abit of afrinic resources - for interconnection purposes. Might that be your second point?<br><br>what i dont understand is the insinuation that Afrinic should accept a policy proposal on the simple reason that they have NO choice...I would rather we address such a weakness rather than accept policies to re-inforce the same.<br><br>walu.<br>nb: am not saying am against the proposed proposa. that would be premature since I still dont understand the spirit behind the summary statement in the proposed policy.<br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 2/12/11, McTim <i><dogwallah@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [AfriNIC-rpd] Proposal: Out of region sales of IPv4 space<br>To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu@yahoo.com><br>Cc: rpd@afrinic.net, "Graham Beneke" <graham@apolix.co.za><br>Date: Saturday, February 12, 2011, 2:48 PM<br><br><div id="yiv565940869"><br><br><div class="yiv565940869gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=jwalu@yahoo.com">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv565940869gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">Could someone explain the summary bit that I have highlighted - does it mean the african region has no way of protecting its IP resources? <br>
</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br>We have the SL policy. AFAIK, no other region has placed such a restriction on its resources.<br><br>Sometimes folk have good reasons to use addresses in Region B and C, even though they were obtained in region A. If a compnay has a global network for example, is it fair to make them become 5 different LIRs, one in each region? It also helps in aggregation to have fewer blocks allocated to large networks.<br>
<br>What drc has pointed out is that it is non-trivial to determine where resources are used.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
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