<div dir="auto"><div>Owen....<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 2 Jul 2021, 10:58 Owen DeLong via RPD, <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Full disclosure: I don’t personally have a dog in this fight. I am personally<br>
agnostic as to whether leasing should or should not be permitted in a<br>
newly developed policy.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Resource Membership is what is allowed based on number resources need with a purpose to number "open system protocol network services" based infrastructure in each respective region.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The numbering then supports delivery of a wide range of IP based services, from public and private Internet connectivity for a wide range of use cases, public and private hosting and naming/dns .... stuff you are familiar with.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I do have a client that I consult for which is in the leasing business.</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So a new resource member with a need from South Sudan today, can no longer get IPv4 space from AFRINIC and that entity only option is to lease from your client running a leasing business of IPv4 allocated to them by the same AFRINIC? . At a higher cost of 30USD per IPv4..... SAD.</div><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> It is my<br>
opinion that their leasing business is 100% compliant with policy as it is<br>
written</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Read the Bylaws + Policies + RSA combined.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> and that if the community doesn’t like that fact,</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Its not about liking, this stuff is absurd.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> the community can<br>
and should certainly amend the policy to rectify the situation.</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nollywood actors have this famous line that goes... "Nonsense" which is an expressions of stuff which don't make no sense...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Noah</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"></div></div>