<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Could we, perhaps, separate the statistics accordingly and call them:<div>a) Reserved</div><div>b) Reclaimed->Quarantine</div><div>c) Returned->Quarantine</div><div>d) I view this as a pathological case of b.</div><div><br></div><div>Frankly, I wouldn’t mind seeing b,c,d combined even, but presumably there is a lifespan to the quarantines in question whereas the ones in category a (truly Reserved) are reserved until consumed by their reserved purpose or policy changes, so conflating them all as Reserved seems misleading.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 14, 2025, at 06:26, Madhvi Gokool via RPD <rpd@afrinic.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<div><p>Dear Andrew</p><p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">The
status 'Reserved' is provided to the following cases :-</p><p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">a) Resources that are reserved
according to ratified and implemented policies(one /12 IPv4 under
the soft landing policy and 2 x 16’s IPv4 prefixes and small ASNs
for IXPs)</p><p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span id="ef9fd7b4-846e-4a34-9430-19d4772ea584" data-mark-type="annotation" data-mark-annotation-type="inlineComment" data-id="ef9fd7b4-846e-4a34-9430-19d4772ea584" data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="annotation">b) Resources that have
been reclaimed from organisations during the closure exercises
and quarantined</span></p><p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true"><span id="ef9fd7b4-846e-4a34-9430-19d4772ea584" data-mark-type="annotation" data-mark-annotation-type="inlineComment" data-id="ef9fd7b4-846e-4a34-9430-19d4772ea584" data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="annotation">c) Resources that have
been voluntarily returned by resource members and quarantined</span></p><p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Quarantined resources in the
case of b) and c) above are subject to a cleanup process to ensure
sanity before they are added to the available pool of resources.</p><p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">d) Resources that have been<span id="c9aa7f5b-7672-4bf0-bc5f-2d434b4eb35d" data-mark-type="annotation" data-mark-annotation-type="inlineComment" data-id="c9aa7f5b-7672-4bf0-bc5f-2d434b4eb35d" data-prosemirror-content-type="mark" data-prosemirror-mark-name="annotation"> deregistered</span>
from the AFRINIC whois database after the investigation of
misappropriated resources were also quarantined. <br>
</p><p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">We will produce a breakdown of
these reservations by tomorrow. </p><p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Regards</p><p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true">Madhvi</p><p><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/10/2025 13:11, Andrew Alston
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Madhvi,
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<div>I'm a little confused by the stats on that page. According
to the CPM AfriNIC currently reserves as a /16 for IXP space
and a /12 under soft landing. This accounts for a total of
1,114,112 addresses.</div>
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<div>The stats page shows total reservations of 17509 /24s -
which amounts to roughly a /10 and another /14 in reserved
space. This is more than 4 times the amount of reserved space
that I can account for in the CPM - so what is the rest of it
and what am I missing here?</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Andrew</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at
11:03 AM Madhvi Gokool via RPD <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><div style="margin: 0.75rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-width: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714; font-family: "Atlassian Sans", ui-sans-serif, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(41, 42, 46); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Dear Sir</div><div style="margin: 0.75rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-width: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714; font-family: "Atlassian Sans", ui-sans-serif, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(41, 42, 46); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AFRINIC publishes statistics here - <a title="https://stats.afrinic.net/" href="https://stats.afrinic.net/" style="color:rgb(24,104,219);text-decoration:underline;font-family:"Atlassian Sans",ui-sans-serif,-apple-system,"system-ui","Segoe UI",Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;box-sizing:border-box" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://stats.afrinic.net</a></div><div style="margin: 0.75rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-width: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714; font-family: "Atlassian Sans", ui-sans-serif, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(41, 42, 46); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The graph titled “Distribution of IPv4 (/24) per year“ on the page <span><span><span><span><a href="https://stats.afrinic.net/ipv4/" role="button" style="color:rgb(24,104,219);text-decoration:none;border-radius:4px;padding:2px 0px;border-color:rgba(11,18,14,0.14);border-style:solid;border-width:0.555556px;display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="border:none;box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-all;white-space:pre-wrap;padding:2px 4px"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;box-sizing:border-box;margin-right:4px;line-height:1"><span style="border:none;height:0px;display:inline-block;box-sizing:border-box;opacity:0;width:1pc"></span></span><span style="border:none;box-sizing:border-box">Statistics Portal</span></span></a></span></span></span></span> can be referenced for yearly distribution, In addition, The ‘Filter by date Range’ can be used to get granular statistics for the IPv4 allocations. </div><div style="margin: 0.75rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-width: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714; font-family: "Atlassian Sans", ui-sans-serif, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(41, 42, 46); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">We also wish to inform you that while the page is accessible on Firefox and Safari browsers, we have noticed an erratic behaviour when accessed via Chrome browser. We are investigating this erratic behaviour at the moment. </div><div style="margin: 0.75rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-width: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714; font-family: "Atlassian Sans", ui-sans-serif, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(41, 42, 46); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Kind Regards</div><div style="margin: 0.75rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-width: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714; font-family: "Atlassian Sans", ui-sans-serif, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(41, 42, 46); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Madhvi Gokool </div><div style="margin: 0.75rem 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; font-width: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.714; font-family: "Atlassian Sans", ui-sans-serif, -apple-system, system-ui, "Segoe UI", Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; color: rgb(41, 42, 46); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">AFRINIC Policy Liaison</div><p><br>
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<div>On 13/10/2025 18:43, Andrew Alston wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi All,
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<div>I was wondering if there were updated statistics
for the amount of space allocated in the last 3
years. In addition to this information regarding
exactly how much free space is still available in the
IPv4 unallocated pool (excluding reservations)</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I ask this because depending on the allocation rate
- we may wish to consider revising the soft-landing
policy that currently reserves a /12 worth of ipv4
space for "future uses, as yet unforeseen".</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>I point out that the soft landing policy was
ratified in 2011, and if we still, after 14 years,
have not been able to articulate a clear reason for
such a large reservation, I think it's time we look at
most, if not all, of that /12 back into the main
unallocated pool that can be allocated for African
resource holders that actually need it.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Amongst other reasons, sitting with unallocated,
unannounced, reserved space like this leaves the space
vulnerable to hijacking and malicious use or even
potential theft.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Thanks</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Andrew</div>
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