<div dir="auto">Hello Frank,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm sure you agree with me that the gray area exists, and also that Legal and the Afrinic assessment committee failed to highlight this risk resource owners are being exposed to.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There should be clear understanding of risks and implications, with a signed mutual legal agreement between the Afrinic and the resource holders before this policy is imposed on them(Network operators).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">An additional risk to consider about inviting RIRs into routing process is the possibility of malicious targeted "errors" which can be perpetrated by compromised members of staff.</div><div dir="auto">How can such acts be put on check, and criminalized?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Anthony</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 6, 2021, 12:11 PM Frank Habicht <<a href="mailto:geier@geier.ne.tz">geier@geier.ne.tz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
On 06/06/2021 18:46, Anthony Ubah wrote:<br>
...> *Who bears the final brunt for the consequences<br>
> (e.g.poor QoS, fines, revenue cut, and loss of customers), Afrinic or<br>
> resource owner?*<br>
> <br>
<br>
To me it seems obvious (but maybe wrong)....<br>
Sure the network operators who decide to turn on validation have to<br>
weigh the risk of themselves doing mistakes as well as others like ROA<br>
publishers doing mistakes.<br>
And when they decide to include information from a Trust-Anchor-Locator<br>
operated by AfriNIC, against your good advise, hmm....<br>
... they might just think that protecting themselves from IP space<br>
hijackers is worth the risk.<br>
<br>
I am not a lawyer.<br>
<br>
Frank<br>
But I'm a co-author of that policy<br>
<br>
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