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

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.

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Adiel A. AKPLOGAN                               Off. +31 (0)20 535 4444
RIPE NCC - AfriNIC project Manager              Fax: +31 (0)20 535 4445
Singel 258 - 1016AB Amsterdam - NL              www.ripe.net  
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