<div dir="ltr"><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Viv Padayatchy</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:viv.padayatchy@cybernaptics.mu">viv.padayatchy@cybernaptics.mu</a>></span><br>
Date: Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:43 PM<br>Subject: RE: [AFRINIC-rpd] PDP discussions<br>To: McTim <<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>>, Maye Diop <<a href="mailto:mayediop@gmail.com">mayediop@gmail.com</a>><br>
Cc: rpd <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>>, Alan Barrett <<a href="mailto:apb@cequrux.com">apb@cequrux.com</a>><br><br><br>I would also like to add my opposition to this policy as I expressed it at<br>
the AIS meeting in Zambia.<br>
<br>
As far as I know, all academic institutions who have requested IP address<br>
from Afrinic and have been able to justify, like any other applicants, have<br>
been able to receive an allocation based on those needs.<br>
<br>
Should the needs change with time, our existing allocation policies allow<br>
for further allocation.<br>
<br>
It seems to me that this policy only serves the purpose of accelerating the<br>
burn up of afrinic V4 space.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">--> I am totally agreed with Viv and Maye that why I don't support this policy. The community should ask that question "the previous policy for the Universities wis quite good, why we need another one?" and as McTim say, which problem we are trying to solve?<br>
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Viv padayatchy<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:rpd-bounces@afrinic.net">rpd-bounces@afrinic.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:rpd-bounces@afrinic.net">rpd-bounces@afrinic.net</a>] On Behalf Of<br>
McTim<br>
Sent: 21 June 2013 19:30<br>
To: Maye Diop<br>
Cc: Alan Barrett; rpd<br>
Subject: Re: [AFRINIC-rpd] PDP discussions<br>
<br>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">I agree with Maye. I do not understand the problem we are trying to solve<br>
here.<br>
<br>
I think that the current policies wrt Universities are already very<br>
accommodating. I don't think these institutions should be treated with any<br>
more special status than they already have.<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
McTim<br>
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route<br>
indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
<br>
<br>
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Maye Diop <<a href="mailto:mayediop@gmail.com">mayediop@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear All,<br>
> I do apolidize for my broken english but I would like to raise the<br>
> point that perhaps we need to take time to look at carefully this<br>
> policy which, in my opinion will provide provision for seggregation on<br>
> Afrinic region and is dangerous for afrinic survival.<br>
> 1- Why couldn t we use the current policies? What is the issues?<br>
> 2- By analysing all these problems, is there another way to raise them<br>
> by improving current policies?<br>
> 3- If we decided to move forward with this new policy, how could we be<br>
> sure by serving academic world that i) afrinic will be able to perform<br>
> in the future as regional organisation ii) the whole region specically<br>
> west, north and central regions will be able to get IPv4 addresses<br>
> next coming years for business and academy.<br>
> Because :<br>
> By providing /8 IPv4 to the universities for half of the price and<br>
> without any policy that prevent to take them back if they are not<br>
> used, how financial afrinic resources which are comlng essentially<br>
> from these ipv4 space could sustain for next coming years. Our<br>
> perspectives are essentially coming from telco and mobile internet.<br>
> The fact is at this stage of v6 transition where only 10% of internet<br>
> content are in v6 and most of our isp's and telco do not want to move<br>
> now to<br>
> v6 because of cost, we know that v4 will be used for next 5 years then<br>
> how urge is it for this new policy?<br>
><br>
> But if we feel that these addresses are not safe in Afrinic because it<br>
> serves international organisations who justify activities in the<br>
> region and then we do have to look for a new safebox to save our<br>
> resources in some academic institution, why don t we just transfert<br>
> afrinic business to these institution?<br>
><br>
> We do aggreed as a group to support Uniforum for running. africa in an<br>
> inclusive manner. Then we could continue to work as a<br>
> multistakeholders group for whole africa interest.<br>
><br>
> All my best<br>
><br>
> Le 21 juin 2013 15:26, "Owen DeLong" <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>> a écrit :<br>
><br>
>> I think it is reasonable for AfriNIC staff to interpret the policy as<br>
>> allowing round-up of the justification to the next bit boundary to<br>
>> facilitate aggregation. I suggest that is an operational<br>
>> interpretation issue which should not effect the last call status.<br>
>><br>
>> Owen<br>
>><br>
>> On Jun 21, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Andrew Alston<br>
>> <<a href="mailto:alston.networks@gmail.com">alston.networks@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> > Hi Alan,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > If they chose to round it up, and it went above the 5 times<br>
>> > multiplier, more documentation would be required as stated in the<br>
policy.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > If they chose to round it down, it would be within the multiplier<br>
>> > and no more documentation would be required.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > If they choose to hit the closest bit boundary to the nearest /24,<br>
>> > again no more documentation would be required but deaggregation<br>
>> > would occur as a result.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Sunday and I have discussed this and believe that this is the best<br>
>> > way forward, as to introduce a change in the policy now would<br>
>> > result in it no longer being able to enter final call and that<br>
>> > would not be in the interests of the community considering the<br>
>> > overwhelming consensus the community gave the policy yesterday.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Thanks<br>
>> ><br>
>> > Andrew<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > On 2013/06/21 10:38 AM, "Alan Barrett" <<a href="mailto:apb@cequrux.com">apb@cequrux.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> >> On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Andrew Alston wrote:<br>
>> >>> So, let us look at an institution that has 20 thousand combined<br>
>> >>> staff and students, and is already sitting on a /16 worth of<br>
>> >>> space.<br>
>> >>><br>
>> >>> The combined allocation they would qualify for under this policy<br>
>> >>> is 20 * 5 = 100k IP addresses.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Would that be rounded up to a /15 (131072 addresses, equivalent to<br>
>> >> using a multiplier of about 6.55:1 instead of 5:1), or rounded<br>
>> >> down to a /16 (65536 addresses, equivalent to using a multiplier<br>
>> >> of about 3.27:1), or a /16 plus a /17 (98304 addresses, equivalent<br>
>> >> to a multiplier of 4.91:1), or something else agreed between the<br>
>> >> applicant and AFRINIC?<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> My reading of the proposal is that the applicant could choose any<br>
>> >> multiplier between 0 and 10, with multipliers less than or equal<br>
>> >> to 5 being almost automatically accepted by AFRINIC, but with<br>
>> >> larger multipliers requiring more justification.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> --apb (Alan Barrett)<br>
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