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AFRINIC · RIR Watchdog

Service Level Agreement for the IANA Numbering Services

Start here for the proposal-by-proposal record: what changed, why it mattered, who argued for what, how positions evolved, what was decided, and where the evidence still has gaps.

Source facts

Policy ID
unnumbered-iana-numbering-services-sla-2015
RIR
AFRINIC
Official status
accepted
Normalized status
Accepted
Introduced
Unknown
Last source update
Sep 17, 2026
Coverage
Partial

Who actually shaped the debate?

2Total participants
2Discussion contributors
UnknownFormal actors
2Discussion messages
2Effective participants
100%Top-five discussion share
1People covering 50%
2People covering 80%

Policy evolution

Debate timeline

  1. Official version

    Public Draft v1.0 – 1 May 2015

    Draft · draft

    Source facts ↗

  2. Official decision

    accepted

    accepted

    Source facts ↗

Entities

Freshness: Stale
  1. Douglas Onyango · Identity unresolved
    Discussion messages1
    First activityMay 12, 2015
    Last activityMay 12, 2015
    First explicit stanceSupport with changes
    Latest explicit stanceSupport with changes
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyInsufficient evidence to assess consistency
    Other policies4
  2. Owen DeLong
    Discussion messages1
    First activityMay 3, 2015
    Last activityMay 3, 2015
    First explicit stanceUnknown
    Latest explicit stanceUnknown
    Stance changes0
    Viewpoint consistencyNo explicit position stated
    Other policies15
    Freshness: Stale

    Identity verified: Sep 11, 2026

    Hurricane Electric · Historical
    Owen Delong, (Hurricane Electric) stated that the RFC2050 is one of the IETF documents that delegates the number policies and processes to the to RIR system.
    www.ripe.net

    Verified public profiles

    Discussion messages
    1
    First activity
    May 3, 2015
    Last activity
    May 3, 2015
    First explicit stance
    Unknown
    Latest explicit stance
    Unknown
    Stance changes
    0
    Viewpoint consistency
    No explicit position stated
    Other policies
    15

    First explicit stance: Unknown → Latest explicit stance: Unknown · Stance changes: 0

    Viewpoint consistency: No explicit position stated

    1. May 3, 2015 · Question or clarify

      [rpd] Fwd: [IANAOversight] IANA Numbering Services SLA Draft Call for Comments

      The funding of the IANA by the various RIRs is generally more than sufficient to run things on a better than best-effort basis. … Do you feel there is something missing in the RSA that should be contained in a separate SLA?

      Source facts ↗
    Per-policy stance timelines:AFPUB-2008-GEN-001 · Unknown · No explicit position statedAFPUB-2012-DNS-001 · Unknown · No explicit position statedAFPUB-2012-GEN-001 · Unknown · No explicit position statedAFPUB-2012-V4-001 · Unknown · No explicit position statedAFPUB-2013-GEN-001 · Unknown · No explicit position statedAFPUB-2013-V4-001 · Unknown · No explicit position statedAFPUB-2013-V4-002 · Unknown · No explicit position statedAFPUB-2013-V6-001 · Unknown · No explicit position statedafpub-2014-gen-002 · Support · No validated consistency assessmentAFPUB-2014-GEN-003 · Oppose · No validated consistency assessmentafpub-2014-gen-004 · Propose alternative · No validated consistency assessmentAFPUB-2014-GEN-005 · Unknown · No explicit position statedAFPUB-2016-GEN-001 · Support · No validated consistency assessmentAFPUB-2016-V4-001 · Oppose · No validated consistency assessmentAFPUB-2026-IPv4-001-DRAFT02 · Unknown · No explicit position statedService Level Agreement for the IANA Numbering Services · Unknown · No explicit position stated

    Total policy messages: 168

Sources and coverage

Official policy sources

Public discussion archives

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Coverage

Partial
Earliest captured: Aug 4, 2004
Latest captured: Oct 13, 2026

Freshness

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Known gaps

  • www.afrinic.net: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
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  • afrinic-rpd: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
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  • afrinic-africann: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
  • afrinic-afripv6-discuss: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
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  • afrinic-measurement-wg: Source coverage is incomplete. · The source boundary has not yet been reached.
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