<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 10, 2019, at 08:50 , Chevalier du Borg <<a href="mailto:virtual.borg@gmail.com" class="">virtual.borg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I opposed this and any out of continent transfer policy at this time. I can revise my choice when ALL RIRs have finish their free pool. Otherwise, this policy can as well be call</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>ROFL… There’s only one that doesn’t match this, depending on how you define “free pool”.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">"The AfriNIC Broker Support Policy”</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Why? Transfers can (and do) happen without brokers on a regular basis.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mer. 6 nov. 2019 à 23:42, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> a écrit :<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 6, 2019, at 07:00 , Fernando Frediani <<a href="mailto:fhfrediani@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">fhfrediani@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class="">
<div class=""><p class="">This proposal states in 5.7.3.2 that "the source entities are
eligible to receive further IPv4 allocations or assigments from
AFRINIC". What is the logic on that ?<br class="">
If a organization is transferring its resources it means it
doesn't need them anymore and therefore it doesn't make sense they
can receive any further space from AFRINIC.</p></div></div></blockquote>Transferring out should not result in a permanent ban on acquiring more resources, but there should definitely be some hold-down time to prevent address cycling and speculation.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why not? </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Because in the real world, business needs change over time. Addresses I didn’t need today and sold doesn’t guarantee I will never need more addresses in the future.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">Unless they can prove they retrieve the last block of address they 'transfer' (aka SELL), why should they get more from the community pool?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Nobody was proposing that they get more from the community pool. I proposed that they be allowed to purchase addresses on the open market after a hold-down time. Perhaps if you took the time to read what I actually wrote instead of summarily dismissing it based on your narrow view of what you think I want...</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">And again. I oppose this "The AfriNIC Broker Support Policy”</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Hmmm… Still trying to understand how this policy supports brokers and doesn’t simply facilitate transfers.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Borg le Chevalier<br class="">___________________________________<br class="">"Common sense is what tells us the world is flat" </div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">My common sense tells me that anyone with decent common sense would have trouble believing anyone whose common sense tells them that the world is flat.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>