<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Good evening all,</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I came across an interesting paper on RIPE labs which details abuse of IPv4 transfers (</span><a href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/vgiotsas/a-first-look-at-the-misuse-and-abuse-of-ipv4-transfer-markets" class="">https://labs.ripe.net/Members/vgiotsas/a-first-look-at-the-misuse-and-abuse-of-ipv4-transfer-markets</a><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">). A couple of highlights,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- 85% of the transfer are Intra-RIR</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Important proportion of transfers involved in malicious activities.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- RIPE region shows biggest misuses inside the “sale” transfers</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- AFRINIC and Lacnic transfers did not show misuses.</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">T</span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">he full document: </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 107, 192); font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><a href="https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/139789/1/VGiotsas_PAM2020_IPv4_Transfers_abuse.pdf" class="">https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/139789/1/VGiotsas_PAM2020_IPv4_Transfers_abuse.pdf</a></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">What lessons can the RPD learn from this research? </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">What can we do differently within the AFRINIC policy framework?</span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Regards,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Murungi Daniel</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 107, 192); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 107, 192); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(31, 107, 192);" class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>