AFRINIC Policy Development Agenda and Process

Policy Development
in the AFRINIC Region
Seun Ojedeji
PDWG co-chairs
AFRINIC-22 – Tunis, Tunisia
June 3 2015

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
Policy Development Process
Policy Implementation
Proposal summary (AFRINIC)
Proposal summary (Other
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
AFRINIC Service Guidelines
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
Resource Reservation
RPM Document
Implementation Experience
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Policy Development Agenda
Policy Session 1: Wed, 3 June 2015, 8:30 – 10:00
The Policy Development Process
Report of Recently Ratiﬁed/Implemented Policies
Summary of proposals under discussion in AFRINIC
Summary of Interesting proposals in other regions
Proposal AFPUB-2014-GEN-002: Out-Of-Region Use of
AFRINIC Internet Number Resources
Proposal AFPUB-2014-GEN-005: AFRINIC Service Guidelines
(Withdrawn)
Proposal AFPUB-2014-GEN-004: Resource Reservation for
Internet Exchange Points
Resource Policy Manual Status Report
Staﬀ Policy Implementation Experience Report
Election of PDWG Co-chair 2015-2017
Policy Development Open Microphone

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Policy Session 1:
Wed, 3 June 2015, 8:30 – 10:00
The Policy Development Process
Report of Recently Ratiﬁed/Implemented Policies
Summary of proposals under discussion in AFRINIC
Summary of Interesting proposals in other regions

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Introduction to the Policy Development Process
Deﬁned by policy AFPUB-2010-GEN-005
http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/
policy-development/251-policy-
development-process-in-the-afrinic-
service-region-afpub-2010-gen-005
Summarised on web page: http://www.afrinic.
net/en/community/policy-development
Principles of openness, transparency, fairness

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Introduction to the Policy Development Process
Anybody may submit a proposal
Posted to RPD list,
and on web site
Discussed in RPD
list (at least 4 weeks)
Discussed at Public Policy Meeting
Last call in RPD list
(at least 2 weeks)
Ratiﬁed by Board of Directors
Implemented by AFRINIC staﬀ
If no
consensus
You
are
here

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Details of the Policy Development Process
Policy Development Working Group (PDWG)
Resource Policy Discussion mailing list (RPD)
is open to anybody
Subscribe https://lists.afrinic.net/
mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd
Archives http://lists.afrinic.net/
pipermail/rpd
Public Policy Meetings are open to anybody
Anybody who participates is considered a
member
Two co-chairs selected for staggered two-year
terms
Seun Ojedeji, Q2 2013 – Q2 2015
Adam Nelson, Q1 2014 – Q1 2016

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Submitting a proposal
Anyone can submit a proposal.
submitted to the Resource Policy Discussion
mailing list
AfriNIC will provide administrative support and
assist in drafting, if requested
AfriNIC shall also provide relevant facts and
statistics if requested

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Draft Policy
Posted to RPD mailing list
Published on AFRINIC web site
Must be available for review at least four weeks
before then next public policy meeting
Changes mat be made based on discussion
Expires after one year, unless approved by the
Board of Directors, or replaced by a new
version.
May be withdrawn by the author.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Public Policy Meeting
Proposal is placed on agenda
Agenda announced on RPD mailing list two
weeks before meeting
No changes allowed in the last week before the
meeting
PDWG chairs determine whether consensus is
reached at the meeting
If no consensus, then back to the mailing list
for further discussion, or author can submit a
new version
This is implied, but not explicitly stated, in
the PDP
Minutes published within three weeks after the
meeting

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Last Call
(If there was consensus at the Public Policy
Meeting)
Two-week last call on the mailing list
PDWG chairs determine whether there is
consensus based on the discussion at the
meeting and the discussion during the last call.
Approval
If there is consensus, PDWG chairs recommend
the proposal to the Board for approval
Report of discussions and feedback
The draft policy shall be ratiﬁed by the AfriNIC
Board of Directors

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Implementation
Adoption and implementation date is
announced on the RPD mailing list
Should be less than six months after the end of
the last call

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Conﬂict Resolution
There is a discussion and appeal process for
people who disagree with decisions made by
the chairs.
Varying the Process
It is possible to vary the process in case of
emergency.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Policy Implementation Report
Status of Recently Ratiﬁed Policy Proposals
1. AFPUB-2012-V4-001 Anycast assignments in
the AFRINIC service region
Consequence: An organization that fulﬁlls
AFRINIC membership eligibility criteria can request
one /24 IPv4 and/or one /48 IPv6 block and/or
1ASN for anycasting any of its services in line with
the provisions of BCP126
2. AFPUB-2012-DNS-001 no rDNS unless
assigned
Consequence: All Local Internet Registries (LIRs)
holding IPv4 and IPv6 address allocations can no
longer receive reverse DNS (rDNS) services from
AFRINIC unless they record IP addresses assigned
to their customers into the AFRINIC whois
database. The policy was implemented and applied
retrospectively.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Summary of proposals under discussion in
AFRINIC*
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out-Of-Region Use of AFRINIC Internet Number
Resources
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
Resource Reservation for Internet Exchange Points
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
AFRINIC Service Guidelines (Withdrawn)

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Summary of AFPUB-2014-GEN-002:
Out-Of-Region Use of AFRINIC Internet
Number Resources
policy-development/policy-proposals/
1157-out-of-region-use-of-afrinic-
internet-number-resources
The Current AFRINIC policies do not explicitly
allow or disallow Out-Of-Region use of Internet
number resources.
This proposal seeks to deﬁne limit of certain
percentage on Internet number resources that can
be used by a member outside the region.
This proposal does that by removing these words
from the existing
This proposal if ratiﬁed will explicitly permit
out-of-region use of AFRINIC’s number resources

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Resource Reservation for Internet Exchange
Points
1257-afpub-2014-gen-004-draft-02
This proposal seeks to reserve IPv4 resources for
public Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in the
African region.
It seeks to ensure that there would be discrete IPv4
resources to allow the establishment and growth of
future IXPs

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
1233-afrinic-service-guidelines
This proposal intends to improve overall service
quality and transparency of AFRINICs number
resource services by documenting roles and
responsibilities of AFRINIC
It attempts to deﬁne AFRINIC’s source of decison
making for allocations
In some cases there are changes to discussion about
reasons.
The proposal attempt to deﬁne the limit of
information that can be requested by AFRINIC in
allocation evaluation process.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Summary of Interesting proposals in other
regions
ARIN
LACNIC
APNIC
RIPE

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
ARIN region: Policy proposals
ARIN Proposal Purpose
Modify 8.2 section to
better reflect how ARIN
handles reorganizations:
ARIN staff indicated that NRPM 8.2
does not clearly indicate how ARIN
procedures handle reorganizations.
ARIN staff indicated that the first
policy bullet point does not apply to
reorganizations.
Change utilization
requirements from
last-allocation to
total-aggregate
ISPs must have efficiently utilized all
allocations, in aggregate, to at least
80% and at least 50% of every
allocation in order to receive
additional space. This includes all
space reassigned to their customers.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
LACNIC region: Policy proposals
LACNIC Proposal Purpose
Inter-RIR Transfers Allow organizations to transfer
space into LACNIC from another
RIR so they can build more
networks in LACNIC.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
APNIC region: Policy proposals
APNIC Proposal Purpose
Modification in the ASN
eligibility criteria
This proposal modifies the
eligibility criteria for Autonomous
System Numbers so that the
absolute requirement to
multihome is removed. Under the
proposal, an organization is
eligible for an ASN assignment if
it is planning to use it within next
6 months.
Modification in the IPv4
eligibility criteria
This proposal would extend the
criteria for end-site IPv4
delegation (assignments) so that
an organization is eligible if it is
currently multi-homed, or
inter-connected with provider
(ISP)-based addresses, or
demonstrates a plan to advertise
the prefixes within 3 months.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
RIPE region: Policy proposals
RIPE Proposal Purpose
ripe-623: Policy for
Inter-RIR Transfers of
Internet Resources
This policy proposal describes
how the transfer of Internet
number resources will occur
between resource holders in the
RIPE NCC service region and
those in other Regional Internet
Registry (RIR) service regions.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Policy Session 2:
Wed, 3 June 2015, 10:30 – 12:00
Proposal AFPUB-2014-GEN-002: Out-Of-Region
Use of AFRINIC Internet Number Resources
Proposal AFPUB-2014-GEN-005: AFRINIC Service
Guidelines (Withdrawn)

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Proposal AFPUB-2014-GEN-002:
Number Resources
Current version AFPUB-2014-GEN-002-DRAFT-03
1157-out-of-region-use-of-afrinic-internet-
number-resources
Submission Date 03 July 2014
Author Douglas Onyango
Revisions
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002-DRAFT-01
http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/
policies/archive/1243-out-of-region-
use-of-afrinic-internet-number-
resources-afpub-2014-gen-002-draft-01
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002-DRAFT-02
http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/
policies/archive/1403-out-of-region-
use-of-afrinic-internet-number-
resources-afpub-2014-gen-002-draft-02

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Number Resources
1 Summary of the Problem Being Addressed by
this Policy Proposal
Currently AFRINIC’s policies do not explicitly allow
or disallow Out-Of-Region use of Internet number
resources. This silence on an important facet of
number resource management jeopardizes
administration by leaving staﬀ to arbitrarily decide
how to handle Out-Of-Region requests. The
imminent exhaustion of IPv4 aggravates the
situation because it is anticipated that
organizations from other regions will have more
incentive to exploit this, and any other loophole in
AFRINIC’s polices to acquire resources for sale or

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Number Resources
use outside the region – a practice that is not in
the best interests of the AFRINIC community.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Number Resources
2 Summary of How this Proposal Addresses the
Problem
This policy allows up to 40% of Internet number
resources in use by a member to be outside the
region. It also tries to be a disincentive for
organizations from other regions that want to
acquire resources from AFRINIC for use in ways
that are not in line with AFRINICs policies and best
interest.
For the avoidance of doubt, the author does not
seek to prolong the lifespan of IPv4 with this
policy; rather, he seeks to ensure that number
resources allocated/assigned by AFRINIC are used
by members from the service region to support

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Number Resources
their legitimate network operations, regardless of
physical location.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Number Resources
3 Proposal
a Upon ratiﬁcation of this policy, out-of-region use of
AFRINIC’s number resources shall be permitted as
long it is preceded by use within the region.
b Notwithstanding (3.a), the number resources used
outside the region at any given point in time shall
not exceed 40% of the total space in use by a
member. Total space in use shall be calculated as
follows: if x be the allocation size; and y the
amount of space in use at time z, then 40% of y
shall be the ceiling).
c AFRINIC staﬀ shall at their discretion, and using
whatever means are available, assess compliance
with 3.a/b.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Number Resources
d This policy shall forthwith be part of the
acceptable use policy for Internet numbers any
breaches shall be dealt with in accordance with the
RSA other AFRINIC policies.
e For the avoidance of doubt, this policy shall not be
applied in mutual exclusion, but rather complement
already existing policies and other eligibility criteria
prescribed by AFRINIC.
f This policy shall apply to past, present and future
allocations/assignments made by AFRINIC.
g This policy shall remain in eﬀect until:
1 i) it is mooted by another policy or it is
superseded by a board resolution.
2 Until section 3.8 of the IPv4 Softanding Policy
kicks in. (Use of IPv4 space from the last /8
outside the region shall be only to facilitate
connectivity back to the region).

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Number Resources
Summary of comments from the list
There has been no comments since new version was
posted.
We need more comments?

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Previous AFRINIC Staff Analysis (General
Observations)
Section Comments
Chapter 2, Paragraph 1:
”This policy allows up
to 40% of Internet
number resources in use
by a member to be
outside the region...”
The policy should be restricted to LIR allocations
and not End-User PI Space. There is no provision
in the current policies for AFRINIC staff to
measure usage of End User (PI) space. The
staff’s main basis of number resource usage
assessment today is by looking at PA assignments
and sub-allocations registered by an LIR in the
WHOIS database as provided for in Section 9 of
the ”IPv4 Allocation Policy -
AFPUB-2005-v4-001 at
http://afrinic.net/en/library/policies/126-afpub-
2005-v4-001. This method of registering usage in
the whois db only applies to LIRs. Staff
recommends that this sentence therefore be
changed to ”This policy allows up to 40% of
Internet number resources in use by an AFRINIC
LIR member to be outside the region...” .

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
AFRINIC Staff Analysis (General Observations)
Section Comments
Clause 3c: ”c.
AFRINIC staff
shall at their
discretion, and
using whatever
means are
available, assess
compliance..”
The staff’s main basis of number
resource usage assessment today is
by looking at PA assignments and
sub-allocations registered by the LIR
in the WHOIS database as provided
for in Section 9 of the ”IPv4
Allocation Policy -
AFPUB-2005-v4-001 at
http://afrinic.net/en/library/policies/126-
afpub-2005-v4-001. (We may only
take a step further when there is
some doubt regarding registered
information).

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
AFRINIC Staﬀ Analysis (Legal Observations)
Section Comments
Clause 3f: This
policy shall apply
to past, present
and future
allocations and
assignments made
by AFRINIC.
After the policy proposal is ratiﬁed and
implemented, there could be some existing
members in breach of the new policy. In-line
with 6(d) of the RSA, breach or
non-compliance with this policy should
ultimately result in cancellation of the RSA
and consequent reclamation of associated
resources. The proposal should clearly state
the time frame (duration) that should be
allowed for members in breach, and should
also propose what steps AFRINIC should take
during this time frame in reaching out to
non-compliant members before
revoking/cancelling their RSAs and reclaiming
their resources if they remain in breach after
the stated time period.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Number Resources
Past comments
The policy should not apply to address space
acquired before policy is ratified. The author stated
he would consider rewording if this isan issue.
It was suggested that the proposal not be
retroactive, but restrict on future resources only,
and that AFRINIC conducts a thorough analysis
and reports on how many members would be
affected if the policy as written were ratified.

Policy Development
Agenda
Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
Wed 10:30 – 12:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
Out of Region Use
AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
Wed 13:30 – 15:00
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
Wed 15:30 – 17:00
PDWG Election
Open Microphone
Number Resources
Past comments
The provisions in RFC2050 and RFC7020 should
guide staﬀ. If networks span regions, the requestor
should go to other RIR service the region where its
other networks are located in the principle of
aggregation. Allocations should not be based on
percentages but need, and needs should be based
on aggregation and minimum size.
The author commented on the need to apply the
policy to just LIRs, in reaction to AFRINIC
comment that there is no way to measure End
User/PI space utilization. It was suggested that all
membership types should have the same rules
otherwise; the policy will encourage abuse of the
system.

Policy Development
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Wed 8:30 – 10:00
regions)
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AFPUB-2014-GEN-002
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AFPUB-2014-GEN-005
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AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
RPM Document
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Number Resources
Past comments
Several speakers supported the intent of the
proposal, but suggested that the way its written
does not solve the out-of-region resource usage
issue due to challenges in enforcement.
There were suggestions that a clear deﬁnition of
out-of-region use be put in place, as this will be the
starting point to resolve ambiguities.

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Number Resources
Discussion points
Does the problem descried in section 1 really exist?
Does the second draft address previous comments?
Can the percentage be increased or reduced?
Does the community now have more clarity on
what ”out-of-region” means?

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1233-afrinic-service-guidelines
Submission Date 26 Oct 2014
Author Karmann Olumomo
This proposal has been withdrawn and will no
longer be discussed

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Policy Session 3:
Wed, 3 June 2015, 13:30 – 15:00
Proposal AFPUB-2014-GEN-004: Resource
Reservation for Internet Exchange Points

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1257-afpub-2014-gen-004-draft-02
Submission Date 23 Oct 2014
Authors Frank Habicht,Michuki Mwangi,Nishal
Goburdhan

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1 Summary of the Problem Being Addressed by
this Policy Proposal
This policy reserves IPv4 resources for public
Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in the African
region, ensuring that there would be discrete IPv4
resources to allow the establishment and growth of
future IXPs.
2 Summary of How this Proposal Addresses the
Problem
This policy requests AFRINIC to reserve, and
publish IPv4 resources, and 2-byte ASNs for use by
IXPs only.

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3 Proposal
3.1 Introduction It is widely considered that Internet
Exchange Points (IXPs) are one of the critical
elements needed for Internet economies to develop.
Africa is still in the process of developing these,
and is, at the same time, faced with the imminent
exhaustion of its IPv4 resources.
Not having IPv4 addresses to grow, or start new,
IXPs would create unnecessary and unneeded
routing complexity for Internet connected networks,
looking to peer at IXPs to further their network
scope.

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AFRINIC already has an existing policy to make
allocations to IXPs [1]but that policy does not
speciﬁcally reserve IPV4 space to ensure that there
will be such, for future IXPs to grow and
develop.Additionally, this policy reserves a set of
2-byte ASNs for use by IXPs for use at IXP BGP
Route Servers.
3.2 Distinction between IXP peering and
management networks We distinguish between
two kinds of IP address resources needed and used
at IXPs.
An IXP peering LAN is the contiguous network
address block that the IXP would use to assign
unique IP addresses to each peering member, for
each peering participant to exchange network
traﬃc across the shared peering infrastructure.
Best practice has the IXP peering LAN not being

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visible in a view of the global routing table, among
other things to reduce the attack vectors for ISP
border routers via the IXP.
From a network identiﬁcation, monitoring and
analysis perspective, it is thus desirable, that the
”peering LAN” space be provided from a
contiguous block.The IXP management LAN is the
management network that the IXP uses to
provision services at the IXP, like monitoring,
statistics, mail, ticket systems, provisioning of
transit to DNS Roots, etc. Management networks,
are meant to be reachable globally, for instance to
publish data and allow remote access for common
good network infrastructure (such as root and TLD
DNS servers) and research projects.

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3.3 BGP Route Servers use Typically IXPs use BGP
route servers to help manage peering sessions
between diﬀerent participants. The route servers
implement IXP routing policy in the form of BGP
communities, typically in the form of A:B,
whereA,B represent A=IXP BGP route server and
B=participant ASN.
Current BGP implementations utilise 6 bytes for
the extended community attribute [RFC5668].
Therefore, an IXP with a 4-byte ASN in use at its
route server would not be able to successfully
implement the A:B BGP community mapping, if an
IXP participant has a 4-byte ASN. This situation is
likely to be experienced by more IXPs, as additional
4-byte ASNs are allocated through the current
AFRINIC process.

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If, IXP route server communities include the IXP
ASN and the peer’s ASN (expected to be 4-byte),
and a total of only 6 bytes are available, it follows
that IXP route servers ASN could not be longer
than a 2-byte ASN.

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3.4 Proposal
To ensure that there are suﬃcient resources for
IXPs to develop, this policy proposes that AFRINIC
reserve IPv4 addresses for IXP peering LANs out of
an address block marked particularly, and
exclusively, for IXP peering LAN use.
Assignments for IXP peering LANs must be from
one dedicated block, published as such by
AFRINIC. The Peering LAN assignments for each
IXP should ensure that the adjacent /24 IP block
is reserved (based on the minimum end-user
assignment policy size of /24) to support future
growth of the IXP. This will enable an IXP to
increase its peeringLAN resources to /23 without
having to renumber to a new contiguous IP block
allocation.

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Assignments for IXP management addresses should
NOT be provided from the same block as the IXP
peering LANs.
It is proposed that a /16 block be reserved for
future requirements for IXP peering LANs in the
AFRINIC service region, and that AFRINIC publish
this block as such. In addition, the assignments for
the IXP peering LAN should reserve the adjacent
contiguous /24 IP block to the requesting IXP for
future growth. These reservations shall be upheld
until such a time that the available pool of the /16
can no longer allocate /23 assignments.
Thereafter, new requests may be assigned from the
reserved space held for future IXP growth.

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It is further proposed to reserve the equivalent of
an additional /16 block for IXP management
prefixes, separate from the peering LANs.
It is proposed that AFRINIC reserves a block of
2-byte ASNs for use in BGP route servers at IXPs
in the AFRINIC service region. The number of
ASNs to be reserved should be the larger of 114, or
half of the remaining 2-byte ASNs within AFRINIC
block at the date of ratification of this
policy.AFRINIC will allocate these resources on a
first come first served basis.
3.5 Evaluation criteria This policy does not suggest
new evaluation criteria for what determines a valid
IXP.

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4 Revision History 23 Oct 2014
AFPUB-2014-GEN-004-DRAFT-01 posted on rpd
list.
05 Nov 2014 AFPUB-2014-GEN-004-DRAFT-02
posted on rpd list.

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Summary of previous comments
It was observed that theres now a policy that all
RIRs (AFRINIC included) issue ASNs from the
32-bit pool, and there should not be a
diﬀerentiation now.
Some members noted that:Sec 5 of the Policy for
End User assignments already asks AFRINIC to
reserve blocks for IXP address space usage, and
that this proposal is a duplicate of the existing one.
The soft landing policy could be suﬃcient if this
proposal is trying to address the uncertainty of
IXPs not getting IPv4 space, and being able to
grow, as the IPv4 soft-landing policy will ensure
prolonged supply of small blocks within the region.

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Summary of previous comments
The author was advised to make note of the
following, and perhaps modify the proposal to cater
for these factors:
Incorporate clearer text about problem statement.
Add a provision for the resources reserved to be
returned to pool by a certain date if not used.
Review concerns from the community and
represent an updated version of the proposal

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Previous AFRINIC Staff Analysis
The statement below needs to be further explained:
”The number of ASNs to be reserved should
be the larger of 114, or half of the remaining
2-byte ASNs within AFRINIC block at the date
of ratification of this policy”
comment to clarify:
For example, if at ratification, our inventory contained
100 ASN, it seems the statement would not apply in any
case, since 0.5*100 =50 (which is less than 114).

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Discussion points
Is there a problem that this policy attempts to
solve?
There has been no update on this policy, whats the
community’s recommendation to the author(s)?
Should IXPs be given preferential treatment?
How about other upcoming small ISPs, do they
need to be considered as well?

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Summary of RPM document since AFRINIC 20
Its Proposed single document for all internet
number resource policy information.
Currently a draft, published at:
http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/cfc/964-
resource-policy-manual-draft?showall=1
Initial draft has been compiled by AFRINIC staﬀ.

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About the document
1. No changes to existing policies have been made;
proposals have only been combined into one
document, for ease of lookup, referral and update.
2. All future policy proposals, after the
implementation, will be reflected as changes to
sections of the RPM.
3. Policy proposal numbering remains unchanged. A
policy proposal must state what section of the
manual will be affected.
4. All previous policy documents will be archived, for
future reference.
5. The document is a simple reformatting of existing
policy documents, and no content changes to the
policies.
6. The Board will approve the final draft and an
announcement will be sent to the community.

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7. RPM Update guidelines will be incorporated into
the PDP where appropriate and published online.
Milestones
Nov 2013 Presentation to the community - Completed
Jan 2014 Public call for comments on the draft - Completed
Mar 2014 Compilation of all comments received,
incorporation of relevant edits - Completed
Apr 2014 Recommendation of ﬁnal draft to the Board for
approval - Completed
Apr 2014 Board Approval - Pending
June 2014 Implementation - Pending Board Approval

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To be provided by Mhadvi

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Policy Session 4:
Wed, 3 June 2015, 15:30 – 17:00
Election of PDWG Co-chair 2015-2017

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Election of PDWG Co-Chair 2015 - 2017
PDWG Election Process
Seun Ojedeji’s term ends now.
Adam Nelson still has another year.
A Co-Chair is needed to serve a two-year term,
starting just after this meeting.
NomCom will conduct the election.

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This is your chance to discuss anything relating to
AFRINIC number resource policies, including the policy
development process.
What works?
What doesn’t work?
What should be changed?
What new policies are needed?
Please queue up at the microphones
When it’s your turn, state your name, and have
your say

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