[rpd] Some thoughts, and some actions required

Fri Feb 5 12:12:59 UTC 2016

Oh please, don’t start the educational policy. Higher Institutions should be moving forward by promoting IPv6 usage within campuses rather than attempting to stay in the relics of IPv4.

That will be innovation in Africa.

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Ademola Osindero

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> On 5 Feb 2016, at 06:32, Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Boubakar and Omo,
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> Just in case you are not subscribed,
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> Would you be kind to contribute and enrich the debate?
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> Thanks.
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> SF.
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> On 04/02/2016 07:50, Mukom Akong T. wrote:
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>       > On 4 February 2016 at 02:04, Mwendwa Kivuva
>       <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com <mailto:Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>
>       <mailto:Kivuva at transworldafrica.com> <mailto:Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>> wrote:
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>       >     On 03/02/2016, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com <mailto:owen at delong.com>
>       <mailto:owen at delong.com> <mailto:owen at delong.com>> wrote:
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>       >     > While I did not support the educational policy
>       because I did not believe it
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>       >     > appropriate to give special privileges to
>       educational institutions to the
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>       >     > detriment of other classes of community members, I
>       would support a policy
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>       >     > that generally allowed for a reasonable estimation
>       of concurrent wifi users
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>       >     > based on quantified total user base.
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>       >     We are a unique market and probably it would have made
>       sense to pass
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>       >     the policy give preference to Universities,...
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>       > 'Unique' in what way? Uniqueness (even when undefined) should
>       not surpass a policy requirement: Needs-based assignment. 
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>       > There were few network engineers who run university networks
>       stood up to support the proposal - that might have been indicative
>       of something. 
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>       > Personally, I thought the ratio of 1:5 was excessive GIVEN
>       the paucity of space available. In the world of abundance that is
>       IPv6 --- I don't care what ratio is used.
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>       > If we really wanted to get to something sensible, I'd measure
>       concurrent users over say 1 month and a reasonable value would be
>       the mean of concurrent users + 3 standard deviations. (assuming
>       statistical normality)
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>       >     because as it stands, many
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>       >     Universities in the continent will remain with NAT post
>       v4 exhaustion.
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>       > Is there a list of universities in Africa with those that
>       have their own space or not? Would anyone from AFREN be able to
>       provide such information?
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>       >     Since Universities are not in the business of always
>       scaling and
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>       >     getting to new territories as LIRs are, they are just
>       comfortable with
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>       >     NAT, to the detriment of growth of proper IP networks.
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>       > I'd argue the reverse: Universities as citadels of knowledge
>       are in a position to try out lots more new technologies before
>       ISPs. 
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>       > Mukom Akong T.
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