<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi JM,<div><br></div><div>Yes however, that definition is currently clearly not adequate considering the amount of debate about what qualifies as inside/outside their organization :)</div><div><br></div><div>Consider a bank, that has multiple departments, all adminned by central IP, in my mind, thats an end user</div><div><br></div><div>Consider a university, multiple faculties, all adminned by central IP, in my mind, thats an end user, however, others seem to believe that that somehow makes them an LIR.</div><div><br></div><div>Its all a little ambiguous and Im still not sure how to resolve this.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br><div><div>On 23 Jul 2012, at 1:42 PM, Jackson Muthili wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello Andrew,<br><br>On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:alston.networks@gmail.com">alston.networks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I actually agree here in the context of the LIR vs End User debate.<br>
><br>> That however raises 2 issues, firstly, as I stated, I believe these definitions need to be made less ambiguous so that we can get some consistency and a clear picture. There is currently no definition of End user in our policies even though the term is used.<br>
<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0000">End User is definition is there.<br><br><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/index.php/en/library/policy-documents/127-policy-for-end-user-assignments-in-afrinic-service-region">http://www.afrinic.net/index.php/en/library/policy-documents/127-policy-for-end-user-assignments-in-afrinic-service-region</a></font><br>
<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color:rgb(255,102,102)">AfriNIC assigns blocks of IP addresses to</span> <b><u>end-users who request address space for their internal use in running their own networks, but not for sub-delegation or reassignment of those addresses outside their organization</u></b>. <br>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers.</div><div>JM</div>
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