<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">@Mark,<br><br>M$ bought the legacy space with a lot of $$$. What I liked is that ARIN quickly got M$ to subsequently put this space under their Service Contracts. I think they fast-fowarded a Policy around this (anyone with specific/actual url on this?)<br><br>Am just wondering maybe AfriNIC should discuss a similar policy since we do have quite some legacy space particular in SA which according to contemporary understanding AfriNIC cannot control its "departure"/"exchange".<br><br>walu. <br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 5/8/11, Mark Elkins <i><mje@posix.co.za></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Mark Elkins <mje@posix.co.za><br>Subject: RE: [AfriNIC-rpd] AFPUB-2011-v4-003-draft-02 - Limited Out of Region Allocation of IPv4 Resources<br>To:
rpd@afrinic.net<br>Date: Sunday, May 8, 2011, 9:12 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Oh? - why do you want to wait until they are completely out rather than<br>just in their final /8 - which restricts LIR's to a single /22 (or<br>something similar)? Most Soft landing policies have something like that.<br><br>...except ARIN who does not have a soft landing policy (just lots of<br>historical legacy space to re-sell....)<br><br>I'd be happy allowing anyone that has a need to have these addresses -<br>at a price of course!<br><br>(What did Microsoft recently pay per IPv4 address?) <br><br>On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 19:30 +0200, Andrew Alston wrote:<br>> Hi There,<br>> <br>> Not until such time as APNIC is completely out of address space, if I<br>> recall they are currently in their last /8, but they are still<br>> allocating from within that. <br>> <br>> Once they state "We cannot allocate ANY more" this would start to apply<br>> <br>>
Thanks<br>> <br>> Andrew<br>> <br>> <br>> > -----Original Message-----<br>> > From: <a ymailto="mailto:rpd-bounces@afrinic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=rpd-bounces@afrinic.net">rpd-bounces@afrinic.net</a> [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:rpd-bounces@afrinic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=rpd-bounces@afrinic.net">rpd-bounces@afrinic.net</a>] On<br>> > Behalf Of SM<br>> > Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 6:54 PM<br>> > To: <a ymailto="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a><br>> > Subject: [AfriNIC-rpd] AFPUB-2011-v4-003-draft-02 - Limited Out of<br>> > Region Allocation of IPv4 Resources<br>> > <br>> > Hi,<br>> > <br>> > I have a few comments about AFPUB-2011-v4-003-draft-02 (Limited Out<br>> > of Region Allocation of IPv4 Resources). In Section 3:<br>> > <br>> > "Upon the depletion of IPv4 resources within any of the
RIPE/<br>> APNIC/<br>> > LACNIC/ ARIN regions, AfriNIC will begin to allow foreign entities<br>> > to take membership of AfriNIC and under such foreign membership<br>> > obtain allocations of space, made available from a single /8 out<br>> > of AfriNIC's IP space holding."<br>> > <br>> > As APNIC is in Stage Three of IPv4 exhaustion in the Asia Pacific,<br>> > would this proposal be applicable for that region?<br>> > <br>> > Section 4 and 5 contains the same text. The Revision History also<br>> > contains that text.<br>> > <br>> > Regards,<br>> > -sm<br>> > <br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > rpd mailing list<br>> > <a ymailto="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a><br>> > <a
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