Re: Geoff Huston on IP address space utilisation in 2015.

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Nishal Goburdhan
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 16 Feb 2016, at 15:27, Hendrik Visage <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> if it’s a /20 that they got from afrinic or arin (and this is more than
>>> likely the case, since pre-arin the allocations were mostly blocks of /16s
>>> or /24s) they can’t actually monetise this, since there is no transfer
>>> policy in place at afrinic.
>>
>> /me never said transfer... more like "bought out" :D
>
> yes.  that  still involves the _transfer_ of the registration information to the new entity.
> and there is no policy to do that in this region.
> so, the afrinic staff are not permitted to do what you describe.
> unless its a legal company merger/acquisition.

Yip, that's exactly what I see going to happen in that case ;)

>
> thats not the same thing as some ISP wanting to offload an unused /20 ....
>
> if you got your resources pre-arin (and yes there lots of these in ZA) then you can pretty much do what you want.   i am about to hop on board a long series of flights, but i am sure andrew/mje (whom have both served as directors of afrinic recently) can tell you more.
>
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