<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Dear PDWG,<br><br>This is to announce closure of the last call period for proposal IPv4 Soft Landing - bis (AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT07).<br><br>Summary and decision on the proposal will be made available by the end of the week.<br><br>Regards,<br>PDWG Co-chairs.</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"sami" <sami@ntc.gov.sd><br><b>To: </b>"rpd" <rpd@afrinic.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:31:38 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [rpd] Last Call Announcement - IPv4 Soft Landing - bis (AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT07)<br></div><br><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000"><div>Dear PDWG,</div><div>Good day.<br></div><br><div>This is to remind you that the <span id="DWT613" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT617" class="ZmSearchResult">last</span></span> <span id="DWT615" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT619" class="ZmSearchResult">call</span></span> period for policy proposal IPv4 Soft Landing - bis (AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT07) will end in two days (Saturday <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT620_com_zimbra_date"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT621_com_zimbra_date">Dec. 16</span></span>, 2017) then the Co-chairs will send the report to the board.<br></div><br><div>Regards,<br></div><br><div>PDWG Co-Chairs.</div><br><div><span></span>Dr. Sami Salih | Assistant Professor<br>Sudan University of Science and Technology<br>Eastern Dum, P.O Box 11111-407<br>email: sami.salih@sustech.edu<br>Mob: +249122045707 <span></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Dewole Ajao" <dewole@forum.org.ng><br><b>To: </b>"rpd" <rpd@afrinic.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, December 7, 2017 8:50:09 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [rpd] Last Call Announcement - IPv4 Soft Landing - bis (AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT07)<br><br><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;" id="docs-internal-guid-34cc03d7-2f83-c30b-c52f-6182303b0c2e"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear PDWG Community,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We thank you for your interaction following the AFRINIC-27 meetings in Lagos, Nigeria although it would be nicer to see more of constructive commentary than personal attacks.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Following the AFRINIC Policy Development Process as outlined in Article 3.0 of </span><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/policies/1829-afrinic-consolidated-policy-manual" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/policies/1829-afrinic-consolidated-policy-manual</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> , the proposal IPv4 Soft Landing Bis was moved to Last Call period for further input from the community before being passed on for ratification by the AFRINIC board or returned to the mailing list. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For avoidance of doubt, please see portions below. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Emphasis</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> added for the purpose of explanation. </span></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 2pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3.4.2 Public Policy Meeting</span></h4><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The draft policy is placed on the agenda of an open public policy meeting. The agenda of the meeting shall be announced on the Resource Policy Discussion mailing list at least two weeks prior to the meeting. No change can be made to a draft policy within one week of the meeting. This is so that a stable version of the draft policy can be considered at the meeting. *</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chair(s) determine(s) whether rough consensus has been achieved during the Public Policy Meeting.*</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chair(s) shall publish the minutes of proceedings of the Public Policy Meeting not later than three weeks after the meeting.</span></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 2pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3.4.3 Last Call</span></h4><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A final review of the draft policy is initiated by the Working Group Chair(s) by sending an announcement to the Resource Policy Discussion mailing list. The Last Call period shall be at least two weeks. *</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Working Group Chair(s) shall evaluate the feedback received during the Public Policy Meeting during this period and decide whether consensus has been achieved.*</span></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 2pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3.4.4 Approval</span></h4><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*The Working Group Chair(s) shall recommend the draft policy to the AFRINIC Board of Directors for approval if it has the consensus of the Policy Development Working Group.*</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The recommendation shall include a report of the discussions of the draft policy and feedback from the Last Call. The draft policy shall be ratified by the AFRINIC Board of Directors.</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For your further reference, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Announcement of draft proposal version discussed at Public Policy Meeting: </span><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2017/007658.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2017/007658.html</span></a><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">First community comment: </span><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2017/007660.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2017/007660.html</span></a><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Second community comment: </span><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2017/007673.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2017/007673.html</span></a><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The proposal draft discussed at the meeting was published on this mailing list on October 1, 2017. Over an 8-week period, that document received one comment (and a +1) stating that the IPv6 reserve be restricted only to new members.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We duly observed previous comments from those that oppose soft landing and would rather remove restrictions. This concern is addressed by the fact that the IP addresses under discussion were in fact handed to AFRINIC in 2011 under a global policy which equally redistributed the remaining IPv4 pool amongst RIRs (effectively replacing the “on-demand” policy - despite the fact that other RIRs may have had greater need and demand at that time). Refer to Section 3 (Rationale) of </span><a href="http://www.afrinic.net/library/135-global-policy-for-the-allocation-of-the-remaining-ipv4-address-space" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.afrinic.net/library/135-global-policy-for-the-allocation-of-the-remaining-ipv4-address-space</span></a><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While minutes of the meeting are yet to be published, the community may observe the proceedings of the session at </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-EIsBtenw0" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-EIsBtenw0</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete meeting video playlist is at </span><a href="https://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-27/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #1155cc; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-27/</span></a><br></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The policy proposal IPv4 Soft-Landing Bis remains in last call period as earlier announced.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thank you for your active participation as we look forward to receiving your comments and suggestions on the substance of the policy proposal under discussion. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Regards,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PDWG Co-Chairs</span></p><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><div><b>From: </b>"dewole" <dewole@forum.org.ng><br><b>To: </b>"rpd" <rpd@afrinic.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, December 1, 2017 12:17:26 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Last Call Announcement - IPv4 Soft Landing - bis (AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT07)<br></div><br><div>Dear PDWG Members,<br><br>Following discussions by the PDWG community at AFRINIC-27 during the Public Policy Meeting held on 30 November 2017 in Lagos, the following policy proposal has been moved to “Last Call”, starting today 01 December 2017.<br><br>The last call period will be 15 calendar days.<br><br>IPv4 Soft Landing - bis (AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT07) - moves to last call with the following minor modifications:<br>Reword 5.4.7.1 to remove specific reference to “XLAT translators”<br>Add “including IDN ccTLDs” to 5.4.7.5.3<br>Current Version: https://afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/2247-ipv4-soft-landing-bis-<br><br>The Last Call period will end on 16 December 2017.<br><br>PDWG Co-Chairs<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>_______________________________________________<br>RPD mailing list<br>RPD@afrinic.net<br>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd<br></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>RPD mailing list<br>RPD@afrinic.net<br>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd<br></div></div></body></html>