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<div dir="auto">Hi Daniel,</div><div dir="auto"><br>Thanks for your email. Good paper with Interesting findings. Our proposal for v4 transfer consolidates the intra-RIR transfers, allows inbound, controls outbound transfers and all on need-basis.<br><br>https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-gen-002-d2#proposal<br><br>We make sure numbers moved inside the region and into the region, serve the network purposes and the growing internet in the region, while limiting the risk that some numbers move out, get involved in malicious activities and expose African networks to blacklisting.<br><br><br>As we keep learning and discovering the impact of the v4 transfer, it is better to proceed cautiously.<br><br>Thanks,</div><div dir="auto">--Greg</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Murungi Daniel <dmurungi@wia.co.tz> </div><div>Date: 2020-09-13 3:39 p.m. (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: "rpd >> AfriNIC Resource Policy" <rpd@afrinic.net> </div><div>Subject: [rpd] IPv4 transfer abuses </div><div><br></div></div><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Good evening all,</span><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">I came across an interesting paper on RIPE labs which details abuse of IPv4 transfers (</span><a class="" href="https://labs.ripe.net/Members/vgiotsas/a-first-look-at-the-misuse-and-abuse-of-ipv4-transfer-markets">https://labs.ripe.net/Members/vgiotsas/a-first-look-at-the-misuse-and-abuse-of-ipv4-transfer-markets</a><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">). A couple of highlights,</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="white-space:pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>- 85% of the transfer are Intra-RIR</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="white-space:pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>- Important proportion of transfers involved in malicious activities.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="white-space:pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>- RIPE region shows biggest misuses inside the “sale” transfers</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="white-space:pre" class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>- AFRINIC and Lacnic transfers did not show misuses.</span></div></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">T</span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">he full document: </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(31, 107, 192); font-size: 14px; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><a class="" href="https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/139789/1/VGiotsas_PAM2020_IPv4_Transfers_abuse.pdf">https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/139789/1/VGiotsas_PAM2020_IPv4_Transfers_abuse.pdf</a></span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">What lessons can the RPD learn from this research? </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">What can we do differently within the AFRINIC policy framework?</span></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Regards,</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">Murungi Daniel</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(31, 107, 192); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(31, 107, 192); font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(31, 107, 192);"><br class=""></div></div></body></html>