<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 22, 2016, at 3:46 PM, SM <<a href="mailto:sm@resistor.net" class="">sm@resistor.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi Brice,<br class=""><br class="">Thanks for the feedback.<br class=""><br class="">At 09:38 17-01-2016, Brice ABBA wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">However, some of our members are complaining about the membership fees,<br class="">because we dont want to be an excuse for the fact they don't deploy<br class="">IPv6; we have decided to not the charge IPv6 allocation.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">AfriNIC is the most expensive RIR for IPv4 addresses.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Before and earlier in 2012 our audience in our workshops was made by 3<br class="">kind of people:<br class=""><br class="">-1- Around 40% Never heard about IPv6<br class="">-2- Around 60% Know about IPv6 over some reading<br class="">-3- Around 10% Run an IPv6 network<br class=""><br class="">Today we don't have the -1- group, this is an improvement.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Ok.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">We also have many countries in Africa such as (Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire,<br class="">Djibouti, Mauritanie, Came verde etc.. ) that think about National IPv6<br class="">migration strategy this is another improvement to see that at the<br class="">government level, we think IPv6. People know that they can have very<br class="">good IPv6 training from AFRINIC, this is very important because remember<br class="">that you have to know the foundation of IPv6 before to start any<br class="">implementation.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I recall listening to Nishal explaining the IPv6 address format to AfriNIC engineers and member services employees. :-)<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">We do have many documents that talk about IPv6 implementation but as I<br class="">just said the majority want a plug and play scenario, which is very<br class="">complicated because Countries and Networks are not the same. Howeber<br class="">I'll go for @Stephen and @Latif proposal to create a dicumetn but this<br class="">time this document have to be very technique because remember that they<br class="">are waiting for plug and play scanario....<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Instead of many documents that talk about IPv6 implementation I suggest publishing the details of the implementation of IPv6 at AfriNIC.<br class=""><br class="">There is a Research & New Technology department at AfriNIC. Has it done any study to find out what problems are preventing the members from deploying IPv6?<br class=""></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>That could be envisaged by doing a membership survey. However, I don’t think it would be very useful for an R&D department of an RIR to do qualitative research on “the problems that are preventing members from deploying IPv6â€. The issues have been discussed extensively and we all know what they are: lack of business case, availability of IPv4, lack of interest from decision makers, etc.</div><div>It would be more useful to invest resources in building tools around the allocation and usage of IPv6 such as <a href="http://6spots.afrinic.net/" class="">http://6spots.afrinic.net/</a>. </div><div>Such tools can be used by the same decision makers to come up with strategies and plans in the deployment of IPv6 in their respective countries.</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class="">-sm <br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">AfrIPv6-Discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:AfrIPv6-Discuss@afrinic.net" class="">AfrIPv6-Discuss@afrinic.net</a><br class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/afripv6-discuss<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>