An update on the AfriNIC situation

Sat Aug 28 00:32:46 UTC 2021

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 9:15 PM Baldur Norddahl
<baldur.norddahl at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 1:07 AM Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
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>> > On Aug 28, 2021, at 12:48 AM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > just to point out it is not just one guy but a whole region doing business like that.
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>> You’re saying a whole region consists of parties who don’t route IP traffic?
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> None of the regions require that the IP allocations are used for routing IP traffic. Aside from that, I am saying that RIPE no longer has a "need" policy which means you can have as much IP space as you want without providing any need to own this space. In addition we have IP brokers that expressly buys IP blocks for the purpose of selling - not routing - the space.

I believe you were trying to say routing IP traffic on the Internet
DFZ. Because IP addresses are only needed for IP networks; and if the
allocation request specified Internet usage, then every RIR will hold
the requester to that promise.

Rubens