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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-ZA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi Andrew, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>This is where things start to get interesting. Corporate uptake…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span 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 style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I know that some ISPs give v6 to all customers, I wonder how many of them use it?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span 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 style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I have spoken to a few corporate customers to try and understand the barriers and interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Some, its bureaucracy different departments for LAN, firewall and then change control etc, for some its time – simply not high on the priorities board to allocate recourses, others its training and then the previous issues. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span 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 style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I have managed to get one to agree to take it, offered to assist them with the implementation, but that has still to go somewhere…..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><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'> Andrew Alston [mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 10 October 2016 08:47 AM<br><b>To:</b> Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>; General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss@afrinic.net><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Community-Discuss] Liquid Telecom warns of looming address shortage - Daily Nation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>As another note – that I forgot to mention in my previous email.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>We have to educate our corporate consumers – because unlike the consumer market where you can turn on v6 through ISP controlled access to the CPE’s and it just works, corporates, you have to actually sit with them, discuss, and get them to move, because getting it to the edge of their networks is easy – getting them to enable it through firewalls etc – that’s another story.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>From: </span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Ali Hussein <<a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke">ali@hussein.me.ke</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Monday, 10 October 2016 at 09:01<br><b>To: </b>KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>>, General Discussions of AFRINIC <<a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>[Community-Discuss] Liquid Telecom warns of looming address shortage - Daily Nation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p><span lang=EN-US>Dear listers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US>Greetings and apologies for cross-posting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US>Internet service provider Liquid Telecom Kenya has warned that Africa is set to run out of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses as early as next year, potentially slowing down digital growth in the continent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US>Read on:-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US><a href="http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Liquid-Telecom-warns-of-looming-address-shortage/996-3410850-format-xhtml-aub5sm/index.html">http://www.nation.co.ke/business/Liquid-Telecom-warns-of-looming-address-shortage/996-3410850-format-xhtml-aub5sm/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US>Couple of questions:-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US>1. How involved are we as a community in ensuring the smooth transition from IPV4 to IPV6?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US>2. What have been the major impediments to the successful migration?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US>3. How can we move the needle faster?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US>Ali Hussein <br>Tel: +254 713 601113<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>