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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/6/18 1:47 PM, Noureddine
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            Transition to IPv6 but unfortunately, for African Operators
            in each country, there is also a risk. Every day elapsed
            before this transition moves them towards a very risky
            situation. I talk about Business and also technical risks.
            Unfortunately, the majority of operators has an urgency
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          <div style=""> I am really convinced that in order to
            encourage them to transit to IPv6, African Communities has
            to focus on risks and the urgency aspect of the transition.
            For example leading studies in order to produce a kind of
            SWOT Matrix, adapted to the African context, establishing
            Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats and Opportunities.</div>
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    <p>Yes, I see your point. <br>
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    <p>I wonder, how urgent does IPv4 runout have to be for the urgency
      to be a major risk?</p>
    <p>(Short version: if you haven't started IPv6 already, you will not
      be able to add new users by mid-2020).<br>
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    <p>Using <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html">http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html</a> I think we
      will reach Exhaustion Phase 2 in 6-8 months. Let's say July 2019.
      That means that everyone who has received IPv4 addresses since
      this past July has received their last Phase 1 allocation.</p>
    <p>Under current policy as I understand it, starting next July,
      networks will only get up to a /22 per application (or less, if a
      /23 or /24 will last them 8 months). If they use that /22, they
      can get another, and another, but whoever does the IP management
      work will be busy submitting applications.<br>
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    <p>The Phase 2 policy might slow down consumption a little bit. Say
      the last /11 will run out a year later, in June 2020. <br>
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    <p>As I see it, every wireline ISP in Africa that is not already
      using IPv6 will turn on their last new customer in 18 months. It
      is too late to avoid this: it will take at least two years to
      adopt IPv6. The only options they will have left are CGN or buying
      addresses; those will add conservatively US$10-40 cost per user.<br>
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    <p>Mobile networks may be able to last a few months longer,
      depending on their rate of growth and the ratio of users to IPv4
      addresses.</p>
    <p>The network with a two-year plan will be the only network left in
      two years.</p>
    <p>Please, convince me I'm wrong. <br>
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    <p>Lee<br>
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          <div> Le jeudi 6 décembre 2018 à 15:51:06 UTC+1, Lee Howard
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                  12/6/18 5:22 AM, Noureddine IDBOUFKER via
                  AfrIPv6-Discuss wrote:<br clear="none">
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                    <div>I think that Top management is not enough <b><font
                          size="5">aware </font></b>of business
                      opportunities behind IPv6 migration. </div>
                    <div style="font-size:16px;">Sure IPv6 will give
                      them the opportunity to address a high number of
                      objects, equipements, services,....  but it is not
                      limited to that. Top management has to encourage
                      their people to be express their innovation
                      capabilities in a such a way to contribute to the
                      <span><span style="color:rgb(0, 0,
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                      Value Added Services. </div>
                    <div style="font-size:16px;">Providers who will not
                      propose new competitive service catalogue will
                      simply die in globalized world. Top management has
                      to know hat IPv6 is a real pillar of IT
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                <p>I agree with that. I have several presentations on
                  business reasons for IPv6, which I imagine overlap
                  with AFRINIC's IPv6 for Executives training:</p>
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                  <li>Not running out of addresses, so you can keep
                    adding customers</li>
                  <li>Faster [1]<br clear="none">
                  </li>
                  <li>Because it's faster, Google page rank is higher;
                    more customers see your web site<br clear="none">
                  </li>
                  <li>Because it's faster, users spend more time on the
                    page; more ad revenue<br clear="none">
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                  <li>IPv6 is on by default; may present security risks
                    if not secured</li>
                  <li>Use addresses to identify services; easier policy
                    routing, ACLs, security, troubleshooting, etc.</li>
                  <li>New diagnostic tools PDM [rfc8250] and maybe M-PDM
                    [draft-fear-ippm-mpdm]</li>
                  <li>Simpler container networking [2]<br clear="none">
                  </li>
                  <li>Segment Routing with IPv6: no
                    MPLS/LDP/RSVP-TE/NSH, it's all just IP. [3]<br
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                  </li>
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                <p>The last few are cutting-edge developments that are
                  not widely available yet, but are examples of
                  innovations enabled by IPv6. I didn't even list "It's
                  not NAT" because you're likely to use some kind of
                  address sharing to reach legacy IPv4 sites, but that
                  need declines as others deploy, and it may be cheaper
                  than NAT44.</p>
                <p>IPv6 is cool.<br clear="none">
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                <p>Lee<br clear="none">
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                        <div> Le jeudi 6 décembre 2018 à 10:57:24 UTC+1,
                          JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via AfrIPv6-Discuss <a
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                                    lang="EN-US">Operators are informed,
                                    if you speak about “engineers”, the
                                    problem is to inform the CEOs of
                                    operator AND the CEOs of important
                                    companies in each country (financial
                                    sectors, companies that export or
                                    have relevant web sites, etc.).</span></p>
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                                    lang="EN-US">I recall ARIN did sent
                                    a letter to them (in their region) a
                                    few years ago.</span></p>
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                                      Regards,</span></p>
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                                        ANDRIANISA <a shape="rect"
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                                        <b>Responder a: </b>IPv6 in
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                                        <b>Fecha: </b>jueves, 6 de
                                        diciembre de 2018, 10:47<br
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                                        <b>Para: </b>IPv6 in Africa
                                        Discussions <a shape="rect"
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                                        <b>Asunto: </b>Re:
                                        [AfrIPv6-Discuss] Finding
                                        solutions to things that stop
                                        people moving to IPv6</span></p>
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                                      <pre style="margin-left:35.4pt;"><span style="color:black;">Dear All,

I think there is also another solution which is to inform the operators in each country of the situation because if only the members who will apply IPv6 it will not be possible to use it optimally.
I do not know if a provision to that effect has already been taken but I think that all the members are aware of the situation.

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                                        <pre style="margin-left:35.4pt;"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> Pascal</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;"> Heriliva ANDRIANISA
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<b>Objet: </b>Re: [AfrIPv6-Discuss] Finding solutions to things that stop people moving to IPv6</span></pre>
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> Consumers are unaware of IPv6, so it's not part of their buying decision. If something doesn't make consumer buy boxes, vendors don't do it. I do not think consumer education about IP is a good idea.



Neither do I. Consumers don't DIRECTLY care about IP (whether v4 or v6). But they do care about other features that may be only possible (or easier, or cheaper) with v6.


This is one place where I see the role of governments. In the interest of national development, just ban importation and sale of legacy equipment. Similar to what is already done with type approval in telecommunications today.



> ISPs buying cheap boxes and not paying anything for support, so they can't get upgrades.
> Foreign ISPs dumping volumes of used CPE, which get resold at deep discounts.


I've been screaming about this for years. Even worse, some of it is going to be "sold" as "next generation Internet aid or technical corporation") which further cripples IPv6 deployment.

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> Something that has worked for some companies is an "ISP Certified" sticker. CPE vendors could apply to an ISP, and pay the costs of testing. If the tests complied with the ISP's requirements, which might include MAP, lw4o6, or 464xlat support, the vendor is allowed to put a sticker on their box saying, "This device certified for use with $ISP." There might be a business opportunity for someone who can set up a really good CPE testing lab, so ISPs could outsource their testing and certification.


In addition, I believe that with two days of training (regulators and customs) and the appropriate infrastructure and a PROCESS, we can help a government implement type approval for IPv6. Any regulator that wishes to do this should reach out and join the waiting list by taking the Government IPv6 Readiness Self Assessment at  

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> For years I have been an IPv6 advocate – and I still am – and I’ve actively deployed and run IPv6 in production supplying it to the end user, with multiple percentage point changes in country IPv6 penetration statistics as a result, but I am fast realizing that if we want IPv6 to grow and thrive – it’s time we started being a little more open and honest about the challenges and problems with it – instead of sprouting off that everyone should just move to it.   Let’s acknowledge that IPv6 is critical, we have no option, but it is also deeply flawed, has major problems, and until start dealing with those – we will see deployment continue to stutter


I agree with the above. The solution is not just another open "discussion" where people who have not even started any kind of deployment, or even have a fair idea of what percentage of equipment might or might not be v6 ready go on an on about problems they've only heard about.


>
> Should we have a round table discussion at AIS? How can we identify and make progress on resolving issues with IPv6?
>


Perhaps we can start with a mailing list thread of SPECIFIC issues people have encountered while attempting a deployment on this mailing list, then build up to a webinar or discussion at AIS.


There are probably about 400million users using IPv6 today and growing, someone somewhere has solved those problems.


> The common theme in my answers above is that more people running IPv6 provides more weight in solving problems. If everyone would take a couple of hours to do three things, we'd have a very broad base of common experience to draw from:
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> 1. Write an address plan. Don't worry if it takes several revisions, that's normal.
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> 2. Apply to Afrinic for IPv6 addresses.
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> 3. Announce the IPv6 addresses and route them on your backbone.


These are things that we've helped operators implement in 1 day at our deployathons (or 6 two hour sessions during helpdesk calls). It's surprising how many operators need help with their address planning. Which is why not only do we teach them how to determine how much space they get, but also how to implement them in an IPAM.  For those interested, a video of a highly attended and rated AFRINIC webinar can be found at


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Step by step walk-through of address planning best practices and implementation in an IPAM ---- no maths!


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> AFRINIC's training and IPv6 Helpdesk are great resources. 


The premise behind the helpdesk is this: We can find ONE operator a month that's committed to deploying IPv6, we keep providing targeted training and coaching to move them from one deployment milestone to another until we get stuck with incompatible equipment or internal collaboration issues. All it takes is about 4 hours investment per week. If you are interested, make a request at  


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As we do this, we're also building an tremendous amount of intel on what actually HOLDS IPv6 deployment back from real operators attempting to deploy it and so far with over 45 tickets, the evidence indicates that incompatible equipment is not in the top 5. </span></pre>
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                                                          <pre style="margin-left:35.4pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">And for those who are still wondering how ready or not their organisations are, take our free Organisational IPv6 Readiness Assessment at  <a shape="rect" href="https://vox.afrinic.net/651525?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://vox.afrinic.net/651525?lang=en</a>  (or <a shape="rect" href="https://vox.afrinic.net/651525?lang=fr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://vox.afrinic.net/651525?lang=fr</a> in French)</span></pre>
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                                                          <pre style="margin-left:35.4pt;"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Until next time ..... be EXCELLENT

-- 

Mukom Akong T.

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