<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 4, 2021, at 03:53 , Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Hi Mimi,<br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 4 Jul 2021, 13:36 Mimi dy, <<a href="mailto:dym5328@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">dym5328@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 dir="ltr" class="">Hello Noah,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As I stressed above, an AFRINIC member who provides internet connectivity within the AFRICAN region and helps maintain a stable and accessible internet, </div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I know resource members with ASN, IPv4 and IPv6 integers doing exactly what you are describing above.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">while also legitimately running a brokerage business, </div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">They don't run brokerage business and the reason is because they requested INR based on a need to number their own infrastcture and that of their customers whom they provide a wide range of IP related services.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">None of those service include IPv$ brokerage.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Some do. I think based on what you say below, you misunderstand the meaning of “brokerage”.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">should not be subject to membership termination. </div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">AFRINIC has publicly stated that they have never allocated IPv4 space to members for the purpose of brokerage services which involves leasing as per below link.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2021-February/003907.html" class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2021-February/003907.html</a><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Leasing is NOT brokerage. Brokerage is an organization which specializes in connecting those with addresses they no longer need and wish to monetize to those with a need for</div><div>addresses who are willing to pay for them. Brokers deal almost exclusively in sales of addresses and (with very rare exception) are not directly supplying addresses to the market</div><div>themselves. Examples of brokerages include IPv4Marketgroup, Hilco Streambank, Addrex, and many others. None of the major brokers is dealing in addresses issued to them by</div><div>an RIR, but rather acting much like a real estate agent, having a customer on the sell side and a customer on the buy side and helping the two of them work out the transaction and</div><div>work it through the RIR system as needed.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">That being said, AFRINIC might lose an active and efficient member that highly contributes to the development of the region. </div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Which member are you referring to?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div>I’m pretty sure her example is hypothetical, but her point is still valid.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>