[AfriNIC-rpd] Updated Version of the "IPv4 Soft Landing Policy"now Available Online

[McTim]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Andrew Alston <aa at tenet.ac.za> wrote:
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>> As has been pointed out by others, the probability of African ISPs
>> making significant off-shore expansions in IPv4 is somewhere between
>> slim and none, so I tend to doubt that this is anything more than a
>> straw man argument.
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> Errrr the possibility is slim to none?  Ok, so hold on, lets look at a few
> things for a second.  MTN is currently in the top 10 largest cellular
> networks in the world, and one of the largest by market cap, they didn't do
> this by not expanding, they are an ISP.
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> Vodacom is a large company, with the potential for market expansion.
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> Anglo Gold and Debeers Mining both are African companies with HUGE
> international holdings, what happens when they need more space?

They need to shift to IPv6.


They aren't
> an ISP so they don't count or something?  So P.I space can then be
> specifically excluded from this clause?  Or not?


no, addresses are addresses.

We have been talking about this one for 2 years, and we finally got
consensus on it.  I would say that the part that you are objecting to
has historically had the most support of any of the bits of this
policy.

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Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel