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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/24/2025 12:34 PM, Owen DeLong
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      <div>If they said that, they were mistaken. Reread the policy
        documents and the bylaws. No such requirement exists in the
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      <div>It may cause you moral outrage or feel wrong to you, but it
        is not against the actual written rules. Multiple attempts to
        change that have failed to gain consensus over the years. The
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    I understand that possibility can be quiet bad for business like
    brokerage or those who lease IP space or people not caring much on
    how the resources destined to be used to develop internet em Africa
    are used in a different way
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      <div>Owen</div>
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              <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 24, 2025 at
                4:39 PM Fernando Frediani <<a
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                    <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 24 Oct
                      2025, 10:18 Andrew Alston, <<a
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                        <div>With regards to space being used out of
                          region - that's extremely difficult to
                          actually know - because the BGP table has no
                          knowledge of geography :)</div>
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                  <div dir="auto">I wouldn't say it is trivial but with
                    geolocation data plus some traveroutes and latency
                    check it is not extremelly dificult to find out.</div>
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                  <div dir="auto">With some intended work that can be
                    found out and further investigate to give AfriNic
                    all necessary information.</div>
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                  <div dir="auto">Fernanso</div>
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                        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct
                          24, 2025 at 4:11 PM Fernando Frediani <<a
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                          there are legitimate cases, but when this
                          happens it may be a signal <br>
                          of alert. The point is to find two things: 1)
                          If the ASN announcing it <br>
                          doesn't have any relation to the resource
                          holder and 2) If resources are <br>
                          being used out of the region (the worst).<br>
                          For the case of parent/sub-company ideally
                          resources should be <br>
                          transferred among companies using them in
                          reality then.<br>
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                          Fernando<br>
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                          On 10/24/2025 7:45 AM, Andrew Alston wrote:<br>
                          > Hi All,<br>
                          ><br>
                          > While I haven't got around to publishing
                          the code behind this - mainly <br>
                          > because it by necessity exposes certain
                          data and requires a BGP dump <br>
                          > from a juniper router which is hundreds
                          of megs big, I've attached the <br>
                          > output of the code I wrote.<br>
                          ><br>
                          > One caveat with this data - There is
                          nothing inherently wrong with <br>
                          > space allocated to an organisation being
                          announced by a non-AfriNIC <br>
                          > ASN, there are many legitimate cases and
                          reasons behind this.  The <br>
                          > same thing happens when space is
                          allocated to one organisation but <br>
                          > announced by another, and this can happen
                          when a sub-company of a <br>
                          > parent company is announcing space from
                          their own ASN when the space <br>
                          > was originally allocated to the parent. 
                          As such, when reading this <br>
                          > data, it's important to understand that
                          the abnormalities detected do <br>
                          > not necessarily indicate anything
                          nefarious - and this data should not <br>
                          > be seen as accusations of
                          malfeasance against anyone.<br>
                          ><br>
                          > Let's see if the lists let this post
                          through!<br>
                          ><br>
                          > Thanks<br>
                          ><br>
                          > Andrew<br>
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