<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p><br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/25/19 8:01 PM, Marcus K. G. Adomey
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:DB7PR06MB484238CB89C800417ED0BEE0B9C00@DB7PR06MB4842.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
Hi Owen,</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br>
</div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<span>A defined state of balance or imbalance between systems,
irrespective of the metrics used to measure, would consider
the states at start and the expected states at the end.<br>
</span>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>If the ratio of space transferred in and out is the metric
used to define imbalance and its severity, then the amount of
space managed by AFRINIC compared to other RIRs before the
transfer starts would count.<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>With the current imbalance, would you define balance as;<br>
</div>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p>What current imbalance? Neither Afrinic nor any other RIR has a
policy allowing IP addresses to be transferred in or out of
Africa. Current state is 0 in, 0 out. <br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>You could start with the number of addresses allocated
pre-Afrinic, by ARIN and RIPE, to African networks, but I don't
see the point. <br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<p>If an inter-RIR transfer policy is approved, with a control
mechanism, then each day, week, or month, Afrinic would report the
number of addresses it has registered as transfers from another
RIR, and the number of addresses to another RIR. If transfers From
ever exceeds transfers To, then addresses are flowing out. <br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
Lee<br>
</body>
</html>