An update on the AfriNIC situation

Wed Sep 1 11:39:17 UTC 2021

On 8/31/21 22:37, Rubens Kuhl wrote:

> I can try helping with that: in underserved regions it's not unusual
> for network services for that population to be physically hosted out
> of the region. For instance, if you have a hosting service that only
> accepts South African rands and your language options are Afrikaans
> and Zulu, you can credibly argue to AfriNIC that you are targeting its
> service region and are eligible for AfriNIC number resources.
>
> But you would need to be upfront with that, including mentioning that
> your upstreams are not from Africa and your installations won't be in
> Africa.
> Otherwise you applied for number resources under false pretenses, and
> will bear the risk of such.

I believe CI had a small footprint in South Africa in some rack. 
Certainly nothing that would bother a /29.

Mark.