[AfrIPv6-Discuss] IPv6 adoption per country

[Stephen Honlue]

> On Jan 16, 2016, at 7:08 PM, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Stephen,
> At 04:54 15-01-2016, Stephen Honlue wrote:
>> AFRINIC statistics is showing that only 3 countries in Africa don't have any IPv6 allocation, but this are just allocations.
>> Members take resources from AFRINIC then keep those without using.
>> 
>> The question is, what is stoping people from deploying IPv6?
> 
> According to AfriNIC ( http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/09/docs/afrinic_20090518.pdf ) "Training has been an important part of the success of IPv6 allocation growth".  There has been several
> "successful conclusion of the AFRINIC Training" ( http://atlarge-lists.icann.org/pipermail/afri-discuss/2012q3/001986.html ).  The adoption by users in Cameroon is 0.05%, 0.02% in Egypt and 0.09% in South Africa.
> 
> The following is about 2012 ( https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afripv6-discuss/2013/001419.html ): "I would not say that the AF6TF has not produced any results, because for those that participated in any of the activities listed, be it AFOPs or the webinars, there were obvious benefits, especially for those still entering into the IPv6 world, and that was obvious by the loyalty seen from the attendees".
> 
> The approach was to give free training and free IPv6 allocations.  Has that produced any results?
Today only 3 countries in the region do not have an IPv6 prefix -Yes that is a result-
Now we have to look forward on how to assist those members in deploying the resources in their networks.
Many of us do agree that we should edit a collaborative document where everybody can share experience and the success stories may help those that are still behind.
> 
> Regards,
> -sm

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