<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="">Hi Jaco<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Excellent suggestion!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I fully agree with the approach of addressing the in-region issue through bottom-up, consensus driven policy (rather than “audit” policies of dubious provenance or staff driven approaches).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Of course the trolls and astroturfers will come out - just ignore them.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Responses in-line below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mike<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Jul 2021, at 14:41, Jaco Kroon <<a href="mailto:jaco@uls.co.za" class="">jaco@uls.co.za</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, San-Serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Hi All,<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote>snip<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="padding: 1em 0px 0px; margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, San-Serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">I request from the community opinions on the following:</div><div style="padding: 1em 0px 0px; margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, San-Serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">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</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Forward looking (as we don’t have a fixed percentage in the soft-landing policy) I would suggest “no more than 10% without reasonable justification”.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>However, to address the issue you would need to have retrospective effect (which may not be permissible - I will reserve my comments), I don’t think we can require more than 50%+1<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="padding: 1em 0px 0px; margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, San-Serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">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?</div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Agreed 12 months (unless a reasonable justifications provided).<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="padding: 1em 0px 0px; margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, San-Serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">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 style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I think this works.</div></div></body></html>