<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 22, 2021, at 10:59 , Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, 20:28 Owen DeLong, <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Akamai has a lot of presence in Africa.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They do not have a membership in AFRINIC.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">That is fine...</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hurricane Electric has significant presence in AFRICA and Latin America</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">There are more for instance Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Netflix, LimeLight and other similar Internet services providers.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Guess what, back at home in the ARIN service region, the above hyper scalers and CDN have extensive Internet Infrastructure which is serving Americans and Europeans before they venture and expand out to scale their local networks into global infrastructure and tap into more markets in Africa and Latin America etc.</div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To the best of my knowledge, they do not have any resources from LACNIC or AFRINIC.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">That is perfectly fine. My employer has an extensive network in Europe to connect us back to Africa where we extensively operate and yet we are not RIPE resource members.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Noah</div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">OK, so you agree with me. That’s great.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Let’s move on.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>