[AfrIPv6-Discuss] IPv6 adoption per country

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

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> 1. NAT and his twin PAT

How does NAT hinder v6 growth? I thought NAT has hindered exhaustion of v4,
but not uptake of v6.

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> 2. Legacy Telecom equipment run software which doesnt support  IPv6
and/or its costly to upgrade
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This is a very rare occurrence,  but it's true. While upgrading the vast
University of Nairobi network to v6, I encountered about 8 routers out of
about 50 that were not v6 ready and the IOS could not be upgraded. There
were so many software instances that needed updating but that was not an
emergency since we were dual stacking

> 3. No business case after all 1. above is working so well and money has
not stopped flowing in.
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Very true.
ICT admins and CIOs have let us down. There was a good campaign by AFRINIC
on IPv6 for managers. Is there any monitoring and evaluation from AFRINIC
to enable the community know how effective the training was? For

> 4. Some just dont have the budget for revamp after all the old kit is
still kicking as long as no one touches it.
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You will be surprised, transition is very cheap. If you have the manpower,
you are ready to roll.

> 5. Those with the most recent code are just plain lazy that when they
deploy IPv4 , they don't remember to also do the same for IPv6.
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This are post implementation challenges. And they are good because we need
to take one thing at a time.

> 6. The end users careless about the network and care more about the
services they consume. No pressure from them at all towards the ISP.
Afterall, WhatsApp, Facebook, Netflix is all working fine....

If I was an end user, honestly I would also not care. End user is only
concerned when it's broken.

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