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The soft landing policy ratified by the board on the 11/11/2011 describes how AFRINIC should manage allocations/assignments from the last /8. It defines 2 phases for the IPv4 exhaustion. During phase 1, it set the maximum to be /13 instead of /10 and in phase 2, the maximum to /22 and the minimum to /24. It makes no difference between existing LIRs or End-Users and new ones. The policy also did not impose IPv6 deployment.
The IPv4 exhaustion in other regions combined with other factors has imposed huge pressure on AFRINIC IPv4 pool with requests for large IPv4 blocks, with very little IPv6 deployment. The pressure on AFRINIC IPv4 pool, has led to some policy proposals to reserve some blocks for certain sub-communities.
This policy proposal solves the problem described above by:
This policy (IPv4 Soft Landing), applies to the management of address space that will be available to AFRINIC after the current IPv4 pool is depleted. The purpose of this document is to ensure that address space is assigned and/or allocated in a manner that is acceptable to the AFRINIC community especially during this time of IPv4 exhaustion.
This proposal describes how AFRINIC shall assign, allocate, and manage IPv4 resources during the "Exhaustion Phase" which begins when AFRINIC first needs to assign or allocate IP addresses from the Final /8 block of IPv4 address space.
The "Current Phase" is the status-quo at the time of adoption of this policy. During this phase, AFRINIC will continue allocating or assigning IPv4 addresses to LIRs and End Users using the current policies, including: AFPUB-2005-v4-001: http://www.AFRINIC.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2005-v4-001.htm
AFPUB-2006-GEN-001 <http://www.AFRINIC.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2006-GEN-001.htm>, and any future amended versions of such policies.
The current phase will continue until an otherwise-valid request for IPv4 address space from any LIR or End user to AFRINIC either:
The request that results in either of the above conditions being fulfilled will be the last IPv4 address space request that AFRINIC will accept from any LIR or End User in the Current Phase. If the request can be processed in terms of the Current Phase policies, then it will be so processed; otherwise, it will be processed in terms of Exhaustion Phase policies.
AFRINIC will publicly announce that the Exhaustion Phase has begun at this point. For the avoidance of doubt all applications that are currently in the process at this point will be evaluated as per the new policy
During the Exhaustion Phase, the following allocation and assignment policy will be used. This policy applies to both LIRs and End Users, and applies to all IPv4 address space allocated, assigned, or otherwise managed by AFRINIC during the transition to and after the beginning of the Exhaustion Phase, regardless of whether or not such IPv4 address space is a part of the Final /8. The exhaustion phase will be divided into two parts:
During this phase, allocation/assignment of address space will continue as in the Current phase with no explicit minimum but the maximum will change from /10 to /15.
Allocations and assignments will be made from the Final /8 or from any other IPv4 address space available to AFRINIC, until no more than a /11 of non-reserved space is available in the Final /8. At this point the exhaustion phase 2 will begin.
For the avoidance of doubt all applications will be in the process at this point will be evaluated as per the new policy.
During this phase the maximum allocation/assignment size will be /22.
3.6) If any LIR or End User requesting IPv4 address space during the Exhaustion
The current allocation and assignment period of 12 months shall be changed to 8 months. This will help to ensure that LIRs request only for resources they need in the short to medium term, and promote fairness in the equitable distribution of the last IPv4 address pool. This allocation/assignment period will remain the same throughout the life span of this Policy
During exhaustion phase 2, allocations/assignments to critical Internet infrastructures and new LIRs and End-Users will be as below:
A /16 from the final /11 will be held in reserve for exclusive use by critical Internet infrastructures. On application for IPv4 resources, a critical Internet Infrastructure may receive one allocation or assignment (maximum /22).
Critical infrastructures are: ICANN-sanctioned DNS root server operators, IXPs, TLD (Top Level Domain) operators, IANA RIRs
On application for IPv4 resources, an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) will receive one allocation or assignment (maximum /23) according to the following:
A /14 from the final /11 will be held in reserve for exclusive use by new LIRs or End-Users with no prior IPv4 address space from AFRINIC. On application for IPv4 resources, a new LIR or End-User may receive one allocation or assignment (maximum /22).
A /13 IPv4 address block will be in reserved out of the Final /8. This /13 IPv4 address block shall be preserved by AFRINIC for some future uses, as yet unforeseen. The Internet is innovative and we cannot predict with certainty what might happen. Therefore, it is prudent to keep this block in reserve, just in case some future requirement creates a demand for IPv4 addresses.
When AFRINIC, can no longer meet any more requests for address space (from the Final /8 or from any other available address space), AFRINIC in consultation with the community via the Policy Discussion Mailing list and considering the demand and other factors at the time replenish the exhaustion pool with whatever address space (or part thereof) that may be available to AFRINIC at the time, in a manner that is in the best interest of the community.
09th Feb 2016 AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT01 (Version 1.0) Posted to the rpd mailing list.
16th Feb 2016 AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT02 (version 2.0) Posted to the rpd mailing list.
Global Policy for the Allocation of the remaining IPv4 address pool:
http://www.AFRINIC.net/en/library/policies/135-afpub-2009-v4-001
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