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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>It seems history repeats itself in different scenarios. When the US wanted to join WW2, they had just cavalries with 1000s of horses, no tanks. They had to build a new army with tanks, ships and planes very quickly. The sad story is that US army had to kill 1000s of horses as they were becoming too expensive to feed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This time ironically the horses are the users.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Latif <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> John Hay [mailto:jhay@meraka.org.za] <br><b>Sent:</b> Samstag, 23. Januar 2016 08:14<br><b>To:</b> IPv6 in Africa Discussions <afripv6-discuss@afrinic.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AfrIPv6-Discuss] IPv6 adoption per country<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 5:58 PM, SM <<a href="mailto:sm@resistor.net" target="_blank">sm@resistor.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Is there an analysis by AfriNIC regarding the projected exhaustion of its IPv4 address pool? The document at <a href="http://www.afrinic.net/en/services/920-analysis-future-ipv4-exhaustion" target="_blank">http://www.afrinic.net/en/services/920-analysis-future-ipv4-exhaustion</a> states that the exhaustion date would be April 11th 2014.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>AfriNIC's available IPv4 address pool or the available IPv4 address space in Africa is just a small part of the picture. Few people want to talk to themselves. That is pretty boring. Once organisations in the rest of the world can only get IPv6 address space and your clients or students want to communicate with them over the internet, browse their web sites, or whatever, and then cannot... What are you going to tell your clients or students? Sorry they use IPv6 addresses, but don't worry we have enough IPv4 addresses, we will not run out? I doubt if they will be happy with such an answer.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>John<br>--<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>John Hay<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>