<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 3, 2021, at 13:38 , 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="">Owen....<br class=""><br class=""><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" class="">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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 class="">
agnostic as to whether leasing should or should not be permitted in a<br class="">
newly developed policy.<br class=""></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></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">
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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" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">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></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>First, I have no idea why they would be unable to get resources from AFRINIC at this time.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Second, I have no idea where you came up with that price. For $30USD/address one can buy addresses rather than lease them, so I can’t imagine any leasing provider charging that kind of price and getting away with it.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" 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"> It is my<br class="">
opinion that their leasing business is 100% compliant with policy as it is<br class="">
written</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Read the Bylaws + Policies + RSA combined.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I have, several times.</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"> and that if the community doesn’t like that fact,</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Its not about liking, this stuff is absurd.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>It’s really not.</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"> the community can<br class="">
and should certainly amend the policy to rectify the situation.</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Nollywood actors have this famous line that goes... "Nonsense" which is an expressions of stuff which don't make no sense...</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div>So it’s nonsense that if the community wants the policy to prohibit leasing, they should write policy to prohibit leasing? Really?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Interesting perspective.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>