Hi Libren, Sorry for the delay in responding to your previous mail.
In January, 2020 AFRINIC as the regional Internet registry for the African region and custodian of this continent’s Internet number resources kicked off a project to review and update all WHOIS database records to guarantee the WHOIS database accuracy. As you can imagine this project is a massive undertaking not only in terms of human resources working on it but also the due diligence requirements that are needed to deal with this matter to guarantee the highest degrees of accuracy possible. As I mentioned in my previous communication in phase one of this project we have managed to reclaim over 1 million IPv4 addresses. /Reclaimed addresses are those IP addresses that have been de-registered (deleted) from the WHOIS database. Upon their deletion, AFRINIC has quarantined these IPs until such time that they can be brought back to the available AFRINIC pool./ We also managed to reverse the registration of over 300K IPv4 addresses. /Reversals on IP address prefixes usually will entail reversing some changes that were made to them on the AFRINIC WHOIS database. These IP prefixes will continue to be present in the AFRINIC WHOIS database with changes to some of its attributes. / We are still investigating over 2 million IPv4 addresses which is why I cannot go into too much detail on a public mailing list. Having said that we are working on producing a full report for the community as soon as we legally can. I ask the AFRINIC members and community for its kind understanding on the matter and I promise more will follow soon. As for other matters such as route leaks or hijacks and other Internet incidents that might occur on the Internet routing table, AFRINIC in its mandate as custodian of the resources has no mandate to act as the routing police. The boundaries of what AFRINIC can and cannot do are based on the policies that the community has defined and those are all available on our website. You will also understand that we prefer not discuss member specific complaint on mailing-list. We still have the duty to maintain confidentiality in all matters concerning both our members as well as other parties with whom we have a working relationship. However, should you have valid concerns, inter-Alia, regarding the status of a particular member-organization, or the manner that we operate, you are invited to contribute and communicate your feedback through different existing channels and we guarantee that due consideration will be given to the same. As for dealing with such technical incidents, the Internet community has managed to successfully handle them time and time again and I know for a fact that the African technical community is both knowledgeable and self-organized enough to deal with any technical issues related to such matters. Kind regards, ---- Eddy Kayihura Chief Executive Officer African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) t: +230 403 5100 | tt: @afrinic | w: www.afrinic.net <http://www.afrinic.net> On 22/06/2020 17:56, [email protected] wrote: > > Dear Eddy, > Thank you for updating the community. > Can you give some more details about your first point? > > 1. IP were claimed because of wrong WHOIS? when these Ip will be > available for recycle? > 2. What is difference between ip addresses reclaimed and IP addresses > reversed? > 3. Wondering on what grounds IP were allocation in the first place > which are reversed and claimed? > 4. > There is one more thread active about cloud innovations they have > 2 x /11 and none of the IP are announced from Afrinic ASN or > region but USA via Multacom ASN https://bgp.he.net/AS35916 > It is a violation of Afrinic policy if IP are not announced from > Africa region or Afrinic ASN. Are such kind of allocations under > investigation? > > 1. Regarding the WHOIS database accuracy, we have completed the > first phase of the task. We have done all the reclaims and reversals > possible. We have also initiated communication with the remaining > holders of resources to allow them to prove the basis of their claim to > the right of use. > > [Some stats: 1,060,864 IP addresses reclaimed, 336,640 IP addresses > reversed, 2,517,760 IP addresses still under investigation] > > Regards, > Libren > -- > > -- > Securely sent with Tutanota. Get your own encrypted, ad-free mailbox: > https://tutanota.com
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