On Mon, 30 Aug 2021, Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
On Aug 30, 2021, at 18:00 , Rubens Kuhl <rube...@gmail.com> wrote:
AFRINIC approves IPv4 for the purpose of leasing every day. It’s what
ISPs do. It’s the definition of an LIR.
Yes, most LIRs are also in the connectivity business and provide
addresses (mostly/exclusively) to customers of their connectivity services.
Which is why CI informed AfriNIC in their request that they were going
to have no network and provide connectivity-less services to CI
customers, right ?
However, there’s no such policy requirement in the AFRINIC governing
documents.
Sorry...I haven't been keeping up with all the messages in this thread,
but assuming it's not already been brought up, what about this, which has
been in the AfriNIC CPM since v0.1 (i.e. the beginning):
"5.4.6.2 AFRINIC resources are for AFRINIC service region and any use
outside the region should be solely in support of connectivity back to the
AFRINIC region."
I ran into issues years ago, trying to do an additional allocation request
with ARIN, only to be told that usage of ARIN-allocated resources
out-of-region did not count toward utilization due to some very vague
language in the NRPM section 2.2 leading to the "invention" of unwritten
policy. The issue with out of region use of ARIN-allocated resources was
eventually resolved with a NRPM section being added explicitly allowing
it.
AfriNIC's policy is not at all vague on the matter that their resources
are to be used in or to support connectivity in the AFRINIC region.
From what I've read, Cloud Innovation primarily uses their AfriNIC IP
resources out of region. How they managed to get a couple of /11s and
/12s from AfriNIC seems to be a massive failure on the part of AfriNIC's
staff, or did their business model radically change after so much space
had been allocated?
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