Luke Wingfield Digby <luke@totalsend.

com>

[AFRINIC #112653] Membership Registration

1 message

Davina Armon <new-member@afrinic.net> Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:33 AM

Reply-To: new-member@afrinic.net
To: luke@totalsend.com

Dear Luke,

As per our phone conversation, please note that your company should be
legally incorporated in our service region and that the network
equipment and infrastructure are to be deployed in our service region to
be eligible for membership with AFRINIC.

Regards,

Davina.

On Tue Sep 11 10:50:26 2012, luke@totalsend.com wrote:

> Hi Davina,
>
> We're currently shopping around. Your requirements will obviously
> impact our decision.
>
> Data transit costs are quite a big consideration for our company which
> makes South Africa an unfavourable place to host our servers. If we
> HAVE to be in Africa, then we would look somewhere in Northern
> Africa with good data centres such as Egypt or Tunisia (due to
> lower international traffic costs).
>
> However, ideally we would like to host in the UK as we have strong
> relationships with ISP's and colleagues at carrier independent data
> centres there.
>
> Please let me know can we host our BGP routers and other hardware in
> the UK? If not, then Tunisia or Egypt or Morocco? Failing that, I'm
> open to any suggestions.
>
> Many thanks,
> Luke
>
> LUKE WINGFIELD DIGBY
> www.totalsend.com • luke@totalsend.com
> Sign-up for a free trial account today!
>
>
>
> On 11 Sep 2012, at 08:32, Davina Armon <new-member@afrinic.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Luke,
>
> Please advise where are your hardware and upstream provider based?
>
> Regards,
>
> Davina.
>
> On Mon Sep 10 20:35:13 2012, luke@totalsend.com wrote:
> > Hi Davina,
>>
> > Further to my previous enquiry, I am interested in becoming a member
> > and requesting an allocation for our business. Since I last spoke
> > we have setup a local South African office and have registered a
> > business entity here.
>>
> > I just wanted to clarify the requirements for membership and being
> > granted an IP allocation. Seeing as our business is registered and
> > based in South Africa, will our hardware and upstream provider
> NEED
> > to be in the same country? Or could we use a different upstream
> > provider and data-centre elsewhere?
>>
> > Thanks,
> > Luke
>>
>>
> > LUKE WINGFIELD DIGBY
> > www.totalsend.com • luke@totalsend.com
> > Sign-up for a free trial account today!
>>
>>
>>
> > On 29 Jun 2012, at 12:50, Davina Armon <new-member@afrinic.net>
> wrote:
>>
> > Hello,
>>
> > The request concerning :
>>
> > "Membership Registration"
>>
> > has been resolved, and will be shortly be marked as closed in our
> > ticket system.
> > We hope, this means that you're happy with the work that we have
> done
> > to get this working for you.
>>
> > If, at anytime, you would like to raise an issue concerning the same
> > matter in this request, do not forget to include the request number
> > [AFRINIC #112653] in the subject of your e-mail.
>>
> > Kind regards,
> > The AfriNIC team
>>
>>
>
>

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