[AfriNIC-rpd] Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Last 5 /8 distributes

[Mark Elkins]

We all should be pitching in and contributing positively towards IPv6.

This week in South Africa:
http://www.techcentral.co.za/only-half-of-sa-providers-ready-for-ipv6/20881/


On Thu, 2011-02-10 at 14:39 -0600, Ben Akoh wrote:
> Thanks Adiel,
> 
> To keep the conversation going and hoping to push our reflections towards
> achieving solutions (as if there was a problem)...
> 
> Should we then begin to focus Africa's rapid adoption of IPv6 to a sleuth
> of activities around edge devices? Afrinic has done quite some work around
> this already, especially at the network level. And this needs to be
> further complemented in some way.
> 
> Additional stakeholders to carry this further is perhaps required - the
> regional economic commissions? Not that this should be a matter of
> government uptake but you would agree with me that our continent is unique
> in the way we depend on them (governments) for deployments in issues such
> as this. If thats the case, what strategy should be employed? And in
> addition, how can we take this further to the edge-of-the-edge networks -
> not just the CPEs but the equipment at the peripheries themselves?
> 
> My concerns are purely founded on the interests that we should be seen to
> adopt IPv6 in the continent at the same pace as everywhere else so we are
> in the forefront of the benefits that its adoption has to offer. And this
> means we need to be doing something differently.
> 
> Ben
> 
> On Thu, February 10, 2011 1:07 pm, Adiel A. Akplogan wrote:
> >
> > On 2011-02-03, at 22:29 PM, McTim wrote:
> > <snip> ...
> >
> >> For instance,
> >>> what has been the spend by companies or countries for newer more
> >>> compliant
> >>> equipment?
> >>
> >> <snip>...
> >>
> >> I think that cable modems and other CPE are the place where some cash
> >> will need to be spent eventually.
> >
> > I 100% agree with you. The deployment has to move now to the edge. Focus
> > has
> > been put (where it was) in the past years on the core of the Network
> > Infrastructures and at some extend on applications compatibility,
> > neglecting
> > end users connectivity. This, I guess was a pure matter of deployment (and
> > disruption mitigation) strategy for many operators. In our region it is
> > also
> > because anyway EU are connected over exaggerated NATed IP addressing
> > design...
> > which in fact is a very bad network design habit (that has a very high
> > cost).
> >
> > - a.
> 
> 

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