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Re: An update on the AfriNIC situation


From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 13:39:17 +0200



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.


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