[Community-Discuss] Questions about AfriNIC Allocations

[Frank Habicht]

Hi,
see inline

On 04/12/2018 15:10, S Moonesamy wrote:
> 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

since this is a democracy, I vote for 163.

[frank at fisi ~]$ egrep '\|asn\|[0-9]+\|[0-9]+\|2018[0-9]{4}\|' 
delegated-afrinic-extended-20181204 | wc -l
163
[frank at fisi ~]$



>> 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.


Agenda item 1:
was there a drop?


Frank