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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I found that which I was looking for:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As per section 8.1 of AFPUB-2005-v4-001 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#EEEEEE'>Determination of IP address space allocation size is the responsibility of AfriNIC staff. In an effort to ensure that Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) is implemented and utilized as efficiently as possible, AfriNIC will issue blocks of addresses on appropriate"CIDR-supported" bit boundaries. (CIDR - "Classless Inter-Domain Routing", is exlained in RFC1517-1959,</span><a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc.htm"><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#FF6600;background:#EEEEEE'>http://www.ietf.org/rfc.htm</span></b></a><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#EEEEEE'>).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#EEEEEE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#EEEEEE'>The fee structures do not allow for this (1023 addresses means you get 3 /24s and 253 addresses which are not on a bit boundary and would also not be routable in the global table)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#EEEEEE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#EEEEEE'>There is conflict as per that section.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#EEEEEE'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333;background:#EEEEEE'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>