<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 Dec 2017 23:44, "Owen DeLong" <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail-m_-5231404429695837024m_-4479385053867222812quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>Now, AfriNIC, the only RIR to still have anything left after all of the other RIRs are either out or well into their final austerity policies is discussing further distorting this timeline in the AfriNIC region. </div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>I read "left after all of the other RIRs"</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">AFRINIC is not the other RIR's, and we are not discussing a global policy. I believe its within her right for the AFRINIC PDPWG members from all walks of life to discuss how best they want their number resources managed regardless of what the RIPE, ARIN, APNIC etc do with their resources.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail-m_-5231404429695837024m_-4479385053867222812quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div>Such a distortion remains a disservice to the global internet community as well as a disservice to the African internet community as well.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">A disservice to the global internet community how???? <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The fact is that the SL-BIS policy proposal in sections sections 5.4.3.1 and 5.4.3.2 stipulates how section 3.4.(i) of the AFRINIC's bylaws could still be achieved for the best interest of the AFRINIC service region and her mandate as a central registry for AFRICA. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In fact I would say that, since 2004, the AFRINIC region has been of great service to the African and global Internet community and will continue to be. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail-m_-5231404429695837024m_-4479385053867222812quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div><br></div><div>Your idea of “fair distribution” involves depriving service providers trying to connect real users today in favor of making sure that possible future service providers which don’t yet exist and may well never exist can get some amount of space to connect a very limited number of real users each at some point in some imagined future.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nothing in the SL-BIS ver.7 policy proposal talks about favoring some future service providers which dont exist. I would be happy for you to show me that specific section.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The fact is that the SL-BIS proposal as it stands in version 7 does not stop live and operating ISP's/Resource members of AFRINIC from
obtaining additional IPv4 resources. The guidelines for the distribution
of the scarce /8 are pretty straight and I will refer you back to SL-BIS version 7 sections sections <b>5.4.3.1 </b>and
<b>5.4.3.2</b> and finally section <b>5.4.7</b> IPv6 deployment reserve. .</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers</div><div dir="auto">Noah</div></div>
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