<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">>________________________________<br><div>> De : Adiel Akplogan <adiel@afrinic.net><br>>À : "rpd@afrinic.net List" <rpd@afrinic.net> <br>>Envoyé le : Jeudi 17 janvier 2013 20h04<br>>Objet : [AFRINIC-rpd] End-User vs. LIR for HEIs<br>> <br>>Hello all,<br>><br>>[...]<br>>[...]<br>><br>>Should we discuss if IP addresses should be Assigned OR <br>>Allocated to an HEI Network (i.e End-User or LIR)? Should <br>>HEI Networks be pre-categorised as EU or LIR by default <br>>no matter what their infrastructure and services are?<br>><br></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">In many cases, HEI will be a EU for less 10%
and will be a LIR for more than 90%.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Hence, HEI = Type_of (LIR)</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br>><br>>[...]<br>>[...]<br>><br>>Now on a personal note, is it fair to assume that in some <br>>cases (big and widely spread campus) HEIs will have more <br>>flexibility and advantage to be an LIR because they can then<br>>more easily managed their allocations? [They can assign, and <br>>sub-allocate to other affiliated schools and institutes (on
<br>>or out campus), store these assignments in the public WHOIS <br>>database. In a way decentralising the management of their <br>>IP addresses pool. While as EU they only get an assignment <br>>and they can not assigned or sub-allocated from AFRINIC policy <br>>and public DB view point]<br>></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="hps">I fully share</span> <span class="hps">your opinion.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br>>-
a.<br>> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div>--<br>Pierre Lotis NANKEP<br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div> </div></body></html>