[Community-Discuss] Questions about AfriNIC Allocations

ALAIN AINA aalain at trstech.net
Tue Dec 4 21:39:27 UTC 2018



> On 4 Dec 2018, at 19:32, Komi Elitcha <kmw.elitcha at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> 
> Le 04/12/2018 à 16:43, Andrew Alston a écrit :
>> Komi,
>>  
>>  
>> Therefore – if a link is broken or pointing at the wrong data – these things happen – I double checked it against a file called delegated-afrinic-latest – downloaded yesterday on the 3rd of December – so – quite frankly – it is what it is.
> What does "cross-check" means according to you? I have not said "double check”


Use different source: https://afrinic.net/stats/asn <https://afrinic.net/stats/asn>

—Alain
> 
>> 
>> Andrew
>>  
>>  
>> From: Komi Elitcha <kmw.elitcha at gmail.com> <mailto:kmw.elitcha at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, 4 December 2018 at 19:34
>> To: Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com> <mailto:Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com>, "community-discuss at afrinic.net" <mailto:community-discuss at afrinic.net> <community-discuss at afrinic.net> <mailto:community-discuss at afrinic.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about AfriNIC Allocations
>>  
>> Andrew,
>> Could you please cross check your data  next time before alarming the world? Always trying to make the organization  looks bad  does not  serve  anybody. We expect high standard from former board members...
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>  
>> Le 04/12/2018 à 13:07, Andrew Alston a écrit :
>> That’s well interesting.
>>  
>> Yesterday – I pulled the afrinic-delegated-latest file – and it seems the latest link wasn’t updated or something, because the stats in the delegated file that I pulled yesterday – were VERY different from the latest file that I pulled today.
>>  
>> I’m pulling all the actual dated files now rather than the linked ones and will re-run the stats
>>  
>> Andrew
>>  
>>  
>> From: Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz> <mailto:geier at geier.ne.tz> 
>> Sent: 04 December 2018 15:55
>> To: community-discuss at afrinic.net <mailto:community-discuss at afrinic.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Questions about AfriNIC Allocations
>>  
>> 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
>> 
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