The soft-landing policy ratified by the board on the 11/11/2011 describes how AFRINIC should manage allocations/assignments from the last /8. It defines 2 phases of IPv4 exhaustion. During phase 1, it sets the maximum to be /13 instead of /10 and in phase 2, the maximum to /22 and the minimum to /24. It makes no difference between existing LIRs or End-Users and new ones. The policy also does not impose IPv6 deployment.
IPv4 exhaustion in other regions combined with other factors has imposed huge pressure on the AFRINIC IPv4 pool with requests for large IPv4 blocks, with very little IPv6 deployment. The pressure on the AFRINIC IPv4 pool has led to some policy proposals to reserve some blocks for certain sub-communities.
Introduced “Allowable Limits & Recurrence” – clauses 5.4.6.1 and 5.4.6.2 (a 24-month waiting period for a member that has received the maximum allocation limit per phase to return for more space).
Restored minimum assignment/allocation size in exhaustion to /24
Removed definition of “Core DNS Services provider” and other definitions that were not necessary.
Addressed most issues in the staff assessment report of AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT04
Maximum Allocation/Assignment size changed from /15 to /18 in phase 1 as per discussions at AFRINC-24 public policy meeting and follow on discussions on RPD
