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<p>Hi All,<br>
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I believe that it's plain that AFRINIC was established for the
benefit of the African continent, this is even enshrined in the
by-laws, as detailed in section 3.4. I believe sub-point (i)
summarises it quite well:
<p><i>(i)to provide the service of allocating and registering
Internet resources for the purposes of enabling communications
via open system network protocols and to assist in the
development and growth of the Internet in the </i><i><b>African</b></i><i>
region; [emphasis added]</i></p>
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<p>I won't quote the rest of it here, but the rest of the section is
equally relevant (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://afrinic.net/bylaws#b20-3" moz-do-not-send="true">https://afrinic.net/bylaws#b20-3</a>)
and makes it plain that everything AFRINIC does should be for the
benefit of the African continent (region). Even the *membership*
is based on this regional affinity:</p>
<p><i>MEMBERSHIP - 6.1</i><i><br>
</i><i> Membership shall be open to:</i><i><br>
</i><i> (i) any Person [including non-natural persons eg
companies] who is <b>geographically based within</b>, and <b>providing
services in the African region</b>, and who is engaged in the
use of, or business of providing, open system protocol network
services;</i></p>
<p>That is - the member is based in the AFRINIC region. This
applies to all three classes of members (Registered, Resource and
Associate).</p>
<p>It is also implied here that the resources are for use within the
African continent. </p>
<p>Over the last while it's become apparent that many people are
extremely unhappy about the fact that Afrinic resources are being
used off-continent. Based on the above I think it's a fair
assumption/expectation (as well as appropriate) that at least the
majority of issued resources should be used in-region (In
particular IPv4 resources).<br>
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<p>I believe it to be appropriate at this time to state this as
policy in the CPM, and thereby to make the general sentiment I've
seen plain as day. This should then apply to all issued resources
retrospectively as well. Not only newly issued resources (which
is currently already dealt with from the soft landing policy).<br>
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<p>I request from the community opinions on the following:</p>
<p> 1. If you had to assign a percentage to out-of-region use, what
percentage of resources allocated from AFRINIC would be considered
"fair usage" for out of region use (I'm thinking "At least 50% of
issued resources should be used in-region", or then "less than 50%
of resources may be used out-of-region"); and</p>
<p> 2. Assuming that a policy gets passed to enforce some form of
in-region use - what would be an acceptable amount of time to
provide members to comply (I'm thinking either 6 or 12 months,
definitely no longer than 18 unless someone can justify that
sensibly) with respect to existing resources?</p>
<p>You're welcome to differentiate between different types of
resources (for example, I don't think it makes sense to have to
get a separate AS number just because a company is
multi-continent, so here as long as the AS is also used
in-region). Space on v6 is of such a nature that I'm inclined to
say "who cares".<br>
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<p>Currently the only restriction in the CPM regarding resource
usage relates to IPv4 during soft-landing (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://afrinic.net/policy/manual#Soft-Landing"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://afrinic.net/policy/manual#Soft-Landing</a>
relating specifically to the last /8. The fact that this can just
be used in-region and then move other existing resources
out-of-region is of concern to me and this is part of the
"problem" I'd like to address in a policy update.<br>
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<p>Kind Regards,<br>
Jaco Kroon<br>
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