<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dewole,<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 6, 2016, at 2:17 PM, Dewole Ajao [Bandwidth Consortium] <<a href="mailto:dewole@forum.org.ng" class="">dewole@forum.org.ng</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""><p class="">I noticed the concluding part of the quote from the soft-landing
policy at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.afrinic.net/library/policies/697-ipv4-soft-landing-policy">http://www.afrinic.net/library/policies/697-ipv4-soft-landing-policy</a>
reads "...in a manner that is in the best interest of the
community." <br class="">
</p><p class=""><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica,
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normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal;
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float: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);" class="">When AfriNIC
can no longer meet any more requests for address space from the
last /8 pool because the pool is either empty or has no more
contiguous blocks, the board will based on the demand and other
factors at the time exercise the prerogative to replenish the
exhaustion pool from the reserve pool<b class=""> in a manner that is in
the best interest of the community.</b></span></p><p class="">Given the amount of time we have spent on ambiguous wording in
recent times, we should update policies to be less contentious
(whenever we discover them). It is either we are saying the board
shall use its prerogative to replenish (and end the statement
there) OR we say the community shall use a process XYZ to
determine the manner in which the exhaustion pool shall be
replenished in the best interest of the community.<br class="">
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Some more digging reveals that policy update under discussion at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/1625-soft-landing-bis-draft-02">http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/1625-soft-landing-bis-draft-02</a>-
is more explicit about community consultation:<br class="">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial,
FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;
line-height: 16.2px; orphans: auto; text-align: start;
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widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
display: inline !important; float: none; background-color:
rgb(238, 238, 238);" class="">When AFRINIC, can no longer meet any more
requests for address space (from the Final /8 or from any other
available address space), AFRINIC in consultation with the
community via the Policy Discussion Mailing list and considering
the demand and other factors at the time replenish the exhaustion
pool with whatever address space (or part thereof) that may be
available to AFRINIC at the time, in a manner that is in the best
interest of the community.</span><br class="">
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Would be nice if we can tidy this up in Gaborone.<br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Good Catch. The discussions around this policy proposal focussed on IPV4 block size allocations, IPv6 clause and category of reserves, etc. The policy proposal also deals with this point.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The FAQ ( <a href="http://afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/1627-softlanding-bis-policy-faq-v2" class="">http://afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/1627-softlanding-bis-policy-faq-v2</a>) presents the differences and the major changes between the policy and the policy proposal.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>—Alain</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""><div class="moz-cite-prefix">
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Dewole.<br class="">
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On 5/5/2016 8:55 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:sm+afrinic@elandsys.com">sm+afrinic@elandsys.com</a> wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote cite="mid:6.2.5.6.2.20160505124706.106c4f08@resistor.net" type="cite" class="">Hi Viv,
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At 12:17 05-05-2016, Viv Padayatchy wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">If we look at board governance, there are
three main areas where a board member can impact afrinic's
business:
<br class="">
<br class="">
1. Policy Development
<br class="">
The board has little influence here. It cannot alter a
policy but it can refuse to ratify it and send the policy back
to the RPD. One might say that the board could use this power as
a delaying tactic. However, it will expose itself to tremendous
criticism if it refuses to ratify a policy, which has gone
through the proper policy development process, without good
reasons. To me, this is a natural check against possible attempt
by the board to derail the policy development process.
<br class="">
<br class="">
2. Resource Allocation
<br class="">
Here again, resource allocation is performed by the
executive, and not the board, according to predefined sets of
policies. It is true that the board could have the last word on
matters of resource allocation where the request is unusual and
the policies are not clear cut enough for the executive to make
a decision. This is possibly an area that needs to be looked at.
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</blockquote>
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This community agreed to the following several years ago:
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<br class="">
"When AfriNIC, can no longer meet any more requests for address
space
<br class="">
(from the Final /8 or from any other available address space),
the
<br class="">
Board may at its discretion and considering the demand and
other
<br class="">
factors at the time replenish the exhaustion pool with whatever
<br class="">
address space (or part thereof) that may be available to
AfriNIC at
<br class="">
the time, in a manner that is in the best interest of the
community."
<br class="">
<br class="">
Regards,
<br class="">
S. Moonesamy <br class="">
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