Hello all,

Find below with highlights of discussion included.

Regards

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Subject: Last Call: Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation
Mechanisms by the IANA

[AFPUB-2011-v4-004-draft-01]

Dear Colleagues


During the  AfriNIC-14 Public Policy Meeting that took place in Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania on the 8th and 9th June 2011, the “Global Policy for
Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA” proposal with
reference  AFPUB-2011-v4-004-draft-01 was declared to have reached
consensus. In line with the AfriNIC policy development process, we are
issuing a  two week last call for comments of the proposal as follows:

Start of Last Call: <d1> July 2011
End of Last Call: <d1+14> July 2011

The community is hereby called upon to review the policy proposal and
its associated documents and make comments.

A final decision on consensus will be made taking into consideration the
comments both at the meeting and during the last call.


Regards.

The co-chairs
AfriNIC Policy Development Working Group


[References]


(i) The full text of the policy proposal that got consensus in Dar es Salaam
      <http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2011-v4-004-draft-01.htm>

(ii) Minutes of the AfriNIC-14 policy discussions

<http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afrinic14_f2f_meeting_minutes.pdf>

(iii)  The AfriNIC Policy Development Process
      <http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2010-GEN-005.htm>


Highlights of Discussions during Face to Face meeting in Dar es Salaam

**This proposal is an improvement over the similar  “Global Policy for
IPv4 Allocations by the IANA Post Exhaustion” proposal
<http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2010-v4-003-draft-02.htm>
because it does NOT mandate any returns of IPv4 space to IANA, and does
not deal with any issues of transfer.

** In the AfriNIC region, any space gotten through this proposal will be
subjected to the IPv4 Soft Landing policy should it be ratified and
implemented.

**The main rational for equal space sharing is because it is simple has
been done before. (Distribution of the last blocks of /8s by IANA to the
RIRs in February 2011).

**S. Moonesamy (speaking as a co-author) said there are currently some
bits and pieces of address space at IANA but there is no policy to guide
IANA in deal with it. Sanjaya  reported that APNIC is considering
returning some of the returned legacy space to IANA (about 1/3 of a /8)
while Arturo Servin of LACNIC reported that if LACNIC got any legacy
space back, it would be returned to IANA.

**S. Moonesamy recused himself from the consensus evaluation for this
proposal (on the grounds that he is a co-author) and it was up to Alan
Barrett alone who evaluated and declared consensus. The next step was
for it go to to Last Call.
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