Dear Frank, The status is being considered as a feasible use case to cater for the certain business scenarios, where closed organisations may hold the status for a specific period of time before being finally removed.
However, the ORG-HDL being relied upon by most internal systems, a thorough impact assessment is being done first. Regards, James On 26/02/2021 13:28, Frank Habicht wrote: > Dear AfriNIC team, > > my initial reaction on reading the list was that I'm eager to know more > about what the plans for 'CLOSED' are. Can you explain more? > > o 'CLOSED' > This represents organisations that were at one point an active AFRINIC > resource or associate member but no longer holds an active agreement > with AFRINIC. (No applicable use case in AFRINIC for now but to be put > to use soon). > > > Thanks, > Frank > > On 26/02/2021 12:20, Frank Habicht wrote: >> the content of the PDF can really easily be shared as plain text as well: >> >> Org-type Status Descriptions >> org-type can have one of these values: >> o 'IANA' >> This represents the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. The Public >> Technical Identifiers (PTI) performs the IANA functions related to the >> global IP and AS number spaces, such as allocations made to Regional >> Internet Registries >> o 'RIR' >> This represents Regional Internet Registries only, these registries have >> a primary role of managing and distributing public Internet address >> space within their respective service regions. >> Currently, there are five RIRs: AFRINIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, and RIPE NCC >> o 'LIR' >> This represents all the Local Internet Registries, these are Internet >> Registries that receive allocations from an RIR and primarily assign >> address space to their customers also called 'end-users'. Their >> customers are other ISPs and end-users >> o 'EU-PI' >> This represents all the organisations (End-Sites) who receive portable >> IP address space directly from the RIR to run their own networks. These >> addresses cannot be sub-delegated or reassigned outside these organisations. >> o 'EU-AS' >> This represents all the End-Sites holding only ASN resources received >> directly from the RIR. >> o 'MEMBER-ONLY' >> This represents a non-active organisation that holds no IP resources >> from the RIR. >> The organisation may have applied for membership or is no longer an >> AFRINIC Resource Member. >> o 'CLOSED' >> This represents organisations that were at one point an active AFRINIC >> resource or associate member but no longer holds an active agreement >> with AFRINIC. (No applicable use case in AFRINIC for now but to be put >> to use soon). >> o 'INACTIVE-MEMBER' >> No applicable use case in AFRINIC (can be removed) >> o 'NON-REGISTRY' >> No applicable use case in AFRINIC (can be removed) >> o 'OTHER' >> These organisations can be created by any person on the AFRINIC WHOIS >> database for the purpose of sub-allocation, but does not represent an >> AFRINIC Resource Member >> o 'REGISTERED-MEMBER'These represent AFRINIC Board Members holding office. >> o 'ASSOCIATE-MEMBER' >> This represents an individual person or corporate body or the public >> sector who have signed the Associate Membership Agreement >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> DBWG mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/dbwg >> > > _______________________________________________ > DBWG mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/dbwg > -- James Chirwa Acting Manager, Member Services Department, AFRINIC Ltd. t: +230 403 51 00 | f: +230 466 6758 | tt: @afrinic | w: www.afrinic.net SM: facebook.com/afrinic | flickr.com/afrinic | youtube.com/afrinicmedia ____________________________ _______________________________________________ DBWG mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/dbwg
