[address-policy-wg] AfriNIC Transition: IPv4 allocation Policy change

Adiel and all,

  Have you put your proposal before the stakeholders/users in your
region?  If so is their a measured consensus.  I know that until
now, none of our members in your region have heard of your
proposal.  Thank you for providing in here and now though.
I am sure our members will review it and determine if it is
acceptable or offer an alternative..


Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote:

> IPv4 Allocation Policy for the African Portion of the RIPE NCC service
> Region:
>
> The motivation behind this is that today there are three different
> policies applied to African LIRs: (ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC). To ease the
> transition to AfriNIC (the registry for Africa) policies need to be
> harmonized. The ARIN Community has already taken a step by creating a
> particular policy for its African members. It will be a good step if
> the RIPE community can do the same for its African Members by making
> the minimum allocation the same.
>
> The proposed policy change below is for those operating in Africa. It
> is intended as an interim, transitional policy during the period
> before AfriNIC takes on the RIR function for the African
> continent. From that time the policies agreed at the AfriNIC-I meeting
> will be used in Africa.
>
> Also we should keep in mind that this will only affect the IP block
> 196.200/13 used by RIPE NCC to allocate address in Africa. BGP filters
> then need to be adapted to permit longer prefix (/22) only in this
> block.
>
> Proposed change:
>
> * Minimum allocation: The minimum allocation for African members of
> RIPE NCC should be changed from /21 to /22.
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Adiel A. AKPLOGAN                               Off. +31 (0)20 535 4444
> RIPE NCC - AfriNIC project Manager              Fax: +31 (0)20 535 4445
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