Details
| Name of Proposal |
Amendment of Utilisation in Soft Landing |
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ID: |
AFPUB-2026-IPv4-002-DRAFT01 |
Date Submitted: |
06/05/2026 |
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Author(s): |
Jordi Palet Martinez jordi.palet[at]theipv6company.com The IPv6 Company |
Version: |
1.0 |
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Obsoletes: |
Amends: |
Amend article 5.4.6.1 of the CPM |
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1. Summary of the problem being addressed by this proposal
The Soft-Landing utilisation criteria is preventing organisations that may have multiple sites, redundancy or high availability needs to achieve that, because section 5.4.6.1 states that 90% of the previous allocations or assignments must have been used.
For example, an end-user member may have received a /24 for a Data Centre and now is setting up new Data Centres. Current policy will not allow that until 90% of the first Data Centre prefix is utilised.
Another example may be an ISP, with multiple BGP PoPs, setting up 464XLAT in the network, with NAT64 devices in each PoP for high-availability purposes. Normally it will announce a /22-/24 in each PoP, even if all the addresses are not being used simultaneously all the time, so 90% utilisation is not allowing that deployment offering high-availability to the subscribers.
2. Summary of how this proposal addresses the problem
This proposal suggests that the utilisation criteria should allow cases such as those in the previous examples and similar ones.
Because the 3 million IPv4 recovered addresses, this change will not create an immediate drain of the AFRINIC pool, and instead, can help to increase the number of DC and high-availability, IPv6 deployment and better connectivity for the region.

