There were a number of discussions during AfriNIC-11 about what
constituted utilized address space.
The are a number of policies that refer to requirement to
announce/advertise allocated prefixes within a certain time frame. There
also seem to be assumptions by some that an announcement automatically
means that the prefix appears in the DFZ which is not necessarily the case.
There are also legitimate uses for globally unique addresses that would
never result in the prefixes being announced. One example is the IXPs.
I would like to open some discussion around this with the view that we
may need a new policy to better clarify utilized address resources.
I do not believe that there was originally an explicit requirement to
announce all allocated IPv4 prefixes. Hence the large blocks that are
reserved for the DoD and are to a large extent not announced on the
global Internet.
We have a number of 'killer applications' for IPv6 that would
legitimately use unique IPv6 addresses without ever announcing them to
the global Internet. These include smart grid technologies and RFID.
I personally feeling is that anyone that can justify the requirement and
demonstrate that use of unique addresses should be able to receive them
under AfriNIC policies. This would include anyone that is linking with
as few as 2 other networks without any plans to route on the global
internet.
Your thoughts?
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