<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br>After we submitted the last draft, staff wrote an assessment of the same.<br>Below is our response to the assessment for the record.<div><br></div><div>======================================================</div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-b5098ccd-559b-cd5d-3027-1dc42c827e95"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">2.0 Staff Comment</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Text in 5.4.4.1 and 5.4.4.2 are somewhat difficult to understand.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In 5.4.4.1, is the "total allocations/assignments" the total for that organisation over all time, or the total issued during a particular phase, or something else?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Response:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The “total allocations/assignments” refers to the those “allocations/assignments” received by the member during each phase. Once we enter phase 2(or if a member wait time elapse and we are still in phase1) the allocation counter restarts for such member.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more clarity, we propose to update 5.4.4.1 to the following:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“5.4.4.1 An organization may request additional IPv4 address space in both Phase 1 and Phase 2. However, such an organisation's total allocations/assignments received in each phase must not exceed the maximum allowable prefix of /16 for Exhaustion Phase 1 and /20 for Exhaustion Phase 2.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Staff Comment</span><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In 5.4.4.2, is the ability to "request for another round" restricted to only one additional round, or may there be more?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Response:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There is no limit on number of rounds, so long as:</span></p><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The member 24months wait time has elapsed.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">That there is still IPv4 resource available to allocate</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are still in the same phase.</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Staff Comment</span><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">5.4.4.2 seems to be an exception to 5.4.4.1. They could be re-worded in such a way that no exception is needed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Response:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,255);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">While we believe that the last /8 should be allocated in a fair manner, we also don't want V4 space lifetime to span for so long hence we added the exception to allow members who need the resource access to them.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,255,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span></p></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 May 2017 at 19:33, Dewole Ajao <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dewole@forum.org.ng" target="_blank">dewole@forum.org.ng</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Policy proposal and Staff analysis are at <a href="https://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/2089-soft-landing-sd" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.afrinic.net/en/<wbr>community/policy-development/<wbr>policy-proposals/2089-soft-<wbr>landing-sd</a><br>
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