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      <p><tt><span
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font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Dear
            Colleagues</span></tt><span
          style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
          Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"></span></p>
      <p><tt><span
            style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">If
            I may add some clarifications on this topic  :-</span></tt><span
style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:
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      <p><tt><span
            style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">At
            the time of triggering  the soft landing policy in April
            2017, one /12
            IPv4 address block was reserved out of the final /8. This
            /12 IPv4 address
            block shall be preserved by AFRINIC for some future uses, as
            yet unforeseen.
             (<a
href="https://www.afrinic.net/library/policies/1829-afrinic-consolidated-policy-manual#s5_4_7"
              target="_blank" data-kwik="56" style="box-sizing:
              border-box;color:rgb(210, 114, 70);
              transition: color 400ms ease 0s, background-color 400ms
              ease 0s"><span
                style="text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">CPM
                section 5.4.7</span></a>.) 
            . This prefix is 102.224.0.0/12<span
              style="color:#757575;background:white"><span
                style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps:
                normal;text-align:
                start;-webkit-text-stroke-width:
                0px;text-decoration-style:
                initial;text-decoration-color: initial;
                float:none;word-spacing:0px"> . </span></span></span></tt><span
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Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin;
          color:#757575;background:white"></span><br>
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      <p><font face="Courier">Exhaustion Phase 1 <span
            style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>started and to date,
          AFRINIC is still
          allocating resources based on the stipulations of the Phase 1
          of the Soft
          Landing Policy.</font></p>
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      <p><span
style="font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Exhaustion
          Phase 2 begins when AFRINIC has no more than one /11 of
          non-reserved IPv4 space available in the final /8 <tt><span
              style="mso-ansi-font-size:
12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
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style="mso-ansi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Courier;
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><a
href="https://www.afrinic.net/library/policies/1829-afrinic-consolidated-policy-manual#s5_4_3_1"
              target="_blank" data-kwik="63" style="box-sizing:
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                style="color:#D27246;
background:white;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">CPM section
                5.4.3.1</span></a><span style="color:#757575"><span
                style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps:
                normal;
                orphans: 2;text-align:start;widows:
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                background-color:rgb(255, 255,
                255);text-decoration-style: initial;
                text-decoration-color:
                initial;float:none;word-spacing:0px">.)</span></span></span></tt>.
        <font face="Courier">This means /11 IPv4 of available space in
          the AFRINIC inventory. </font></p>
      <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin"><br>
          <span style="color:#757575"><a
href="https://www.afrinic.net/2017-01-16-afrinic-is-approaching-ipv4-exhaustion-phase-1"><span
                style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps:
                normal;orphans: 2;
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                rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-style:
                initial;text-decoration-color: initial;
                float:none;word-spacing:0px">https://www.afrinic.net/2017-01-16-afrinic-is-approaching-ipv4-exhaustion-phase-1</span></a>
          </span></span></p>
      <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Regards</span></p>
      <p><span
style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">Madhvi</span></p>
      <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Madhvi Gokool
Acting Head of Member Services
AFRINIC Ltd.
t:  +230 403 5100 | f: +230 466 6758 | 
w: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.afrinic.net">www.afrinic.net</a></pre>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/05/2019 8:43 PM, Lee Howard
      wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite"
      cite="mid:6a2f554a-1560-23d2-3bac-e146010e0ec0@retevia.net">
      <br>
      On 5/15/19 11:44 AM, S. Moonesamy wrote:
      <br>
      <blockquote type="cite">Dear Lee,
        <br>
        At 12:57 PM 12-05-2019, Lee Howard wrote:
        <br>
        <blockquote type="cite">As I understand the existing policies,
          in the next few months we will enter Exhaustion Phase 2, where
          only a single /12 remains for allocation (with another /12
          reserved for something). If addresses are recovered under this
          proposal, could it bring us back to
          <br>
        </blockquote>
        <br>
        The Exhaustion Phase 2 will begin when no more than a /11 of
        non-reserved space is available in the Final /8.
        <br>
      </blockquote>
      <br>
      Right, but only one /12 will be allocated from that /11. A
      proposal for what to do with the remaining /12 did not achieve
      consensus.
      <br>
      <br>
      We're about six months from that date?
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html">http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html</a>
      <br>
      <br>
      Or maybe it's twelve months, and then 3-6 months to use up that
      /12.
      <br>
      <br>
      Would recovered addresses change what phase we're in, or are
      phases one way gates?
      <br>
      <br>
      Lee
      <br>
      <br>
      <br>
      <blockquote type="cite">
        <br>
        Regards,
        <br>
        S. Moonesamy
        <br>
      </blockquote>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Madhvi Gokool
Acting Head of Member Services
AFRINIC Ltd.
t:  +230 403 5100 | f: +230 466 6758 | 
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