<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Precious<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Could you please provide evidence for your claim that "AFRINIC currently has more IPv4 addresses than other RIRs"?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My understanding is that AfriNIC has the smallest number of IPv4 addresses of all the RIRs?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think that you are confused by the fact that AfriNIC is the only RIR will some unallocated IPv4 addresses. However that confusion does not explain your misunderstanding (or is it deliberate misinformation) that the policy does not allow any external party to gain access to the free pool - as it is reserved for AfriNIC members, with appropriate justification for the need.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As such, you claim holds no weight and seems designed to sow confusion.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mike<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Sep 2020, at 13:26, Precious Paul <<a href="mailto:preciousq43@gmail.com" class="">preciousq43@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Dear all<div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Resource Transfer Policy</div><div dir="auto" class="">-AFRINIC currently has more IPv4 addresses than other RIRs. But it might not be the case in the future especially when Africa is developing. So we spare what we have excess now, we can have the favor returned when we need it.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Regards,</div><div dir="auto" class="">Precious</div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 12:12 PM Mike Silber <<a href="mailto:silber.mike@gmail.com" class="">silber.mike@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Hi Innocent<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am not sure you have in fact read the policy, or are just arguing from emotions?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think you are missing the point - parties in other regions <u class="">do not</u> have access to unallocated IPv4 resources from AfriNIC and requesting resources for intended transfer by an AfriNIC member would not be a valid reason for allocation.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What you may have missed is that most other regions:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">have far more allocated IPv4 resources than AfriNIC, some by several factors of magnitude;</li><li class="">are far further advanced in IPv6 adoption; and</li><li class="">have a declining need for IPv4 resources (partly due to scarcity of new resources), which is addressed by their own secondary markets and they have no need to exploit AfriNIC resources.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As such, AfriNIC is likely to be a net gainer of resources, if this policy is approved.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mike</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 17 Sep 2020, at 12:46, innocent adriko <<a href="mailto:jazinnoadriko@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">jazinnoadriko@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">I am in opposition of the IPv4 Inter RIR transfer because it is not really a fair detail to the African region.<div dir="auto" class="">AFRINIC is the only owning most of the remaining IPv4 resources available in the world, so there is more of AFRINIC to give than the other RIRs to offer.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Innocent.</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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