[db-wg] NWI-3 - AFRINIC IRR Homing

> On 04 Aug 2016, at 23:21, Daniel Shaw <daniel at afrinic.net> wrote:
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>> On 29 Jul 2016, at 5:28 AM, denis <ripedenis at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>> As long as these points are addressed, your plan will work. But I still don't see why AfriNIC can't simply put pressure on their resource holders to 'do it themselves’.
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> Well we can, and I believe likely will do just that. I am not making a commitment on behalf of my organisation here, but it makes sense to us too to get as many resource holders as possible to ‘do it themselves’. And I don’t see any reason why AFRINIC would not.
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> When the AFRINIC IRR was initially launched, we already did do some of that. But not enough resources holders saw enough of a motivation to make the effort. Hopefully this initiative will also help to motivate some number more. But it’s never going to be all.

I believe that what is needed here most of all is a clear message from both communities that it is desirable to have the ROUTE(6) objects for AFRINIC space in the AFRINIC IRR where the registered resource holders can properly authorise objects.

In the meantime we can indeed give AFRINIC holders access to object through the maintainer reset process, but since the holders are not an integral part of the RIPE Database this process is both cumbersome and more error prone than we like - which is exactly why we are discussing this effort in the first place. I expect that it will actually be much easier for AFRINIC holders to see object for their space migrated into the AFRINIC IRR, so that they can use existing authorisations they have there to update (or delete/replace) these objects as needed.

Tim





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