<div dir="auto"><div>Hi Mark,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks for the reply.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And for the clear view.<br><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 13, 2017 8:26 PM, "Mark Tinka" <<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu" target="_blank">mark.tinka@seacom.mu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="m_5741683131768954930quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_5741683131768954930m_1059608852803465921moz-cite-prefix">On 7/13/17 9:57 AM, David Hilario
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anyone who is willing to return space, I have
<pre>seen it happen a few times in other regions where some organisations
actually returned extremely large pools of unused space to their
respective registries, it was only LEGACY though, and there was no
audit policy with de-registration in mind needed for that, they just
saw it as the thing to do.</pre>
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I believe you are taking Simon's comments out of context.<br>
</div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just for the sake of the argument against the policy.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This policy proposal would enable the forced return of addresses unused space.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_5741683131768954930quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:16px" text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br>
Speaking as a SEACOM representative, to which this particular point
of the thread has landed, what Simon means is that as a matter of
operational course, if a customer churns, the space they had been
previously assigned is freed up for use by other customers
purchasing services from SEACOM. Simon did not mean that that space
becomes available to the overall AFRINIC pool for re-distribution.<br>
</div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">You are describing a totally normal way of maintaining and operating a pool.</div><div dir="auto">Sounds very same and normal.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Unfortunately we had quite a few views/voices not agreeing with free pool management at LIRs.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_5741683131768954930quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:16px" text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br>
Somehow, I suspect other AFRINIC members have similar operational
habits.</div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="m_5741683131768954930quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Tahoma;font-size:16px" text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br>
Hope this clarifies.<br>
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And just to re-iterate, I am still firmly opposed to this policy!<font color="#888888"><br>
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Mark.<br>
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