[IOZ] [board] Re: [AfriNIC-rpd] Re: Fwd: AfriNIC position on the future of IP number resources

[Alan Levin]

Hi,

On 08 Aug 2007, at 8:28 PM, Sunday Folayan wrote:

> Adiel A. Akplogan wrote:
>> 2) has any of community network Operators being denied IPv6 or IPv4
>>    public IP address assignment from their upstream provider to  
>> properly
>>    number their network?
> Very important question.

The answer is YES!

Most community networks in South Africa use dsl for transit.

Telkom SA (the dsl infrastructure operators) have a policy not to  
allocate ANY IPv4 public addresses on dsl (other than on a short  
lease, ie a single IPv4 address is dynamically allocated).

hth

aLan





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