[Community-Discuss] Questions about AfriNIC Allocations

[S Moonesamy]

Hi Andrew,
At 11:24 PM 03-12-2018, Andrew Alston wrote:
>Now – I realize this is still early December 
>2018 – but we’re almost at the end of the year 
>and unless there are a LOT of ASN’s about to be 
>issued – I see that AFRINIC is running at a 
>lower ASN allocation rate across the continent than at any year since 2009:
>
>2009: 82
>2010: 113
>2011: 109
>2012: 128
>2013: 155
>2014: 134
>2015: 151
>2016: 166
>2017: 152
>2018: 99

Thanks for sharing the statistics.  I took a 
quick look at the information which is 
published.   The results were as follows:

   2015: 152
   2016: 165
   2017: 152
   2018: 162

>As AFRINIC has a mandate to promote Internet 
>growth across the continent, I really think it 
>would be good to understand what their thoughts 
>on this are – and no – before I get jumped on – 
>I am not blaming AFRINIC for the drop – but it 
>certainly does warrant questions being asked.

In my opinion, if there was a drop, it would be 
good to understand what happened.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy