[rpd] Statistics on IPV4 allocation in Africa as of 2016

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 28 Aug 2016, at 20:33, sm+afrinic at elandsys.com wrote:

> Hi Nishal,

hi sm,

> At 03:15 28-08-2016, Nishal Goburdhan wrote:
>> worthless and unreliable are not the same.
>
> Ok.
>
>> while i lack a means to measure its value/worth to (either of) you, 
>> have you found inconsistencies in the data presented?   i'd expect 
>> that this is taken directly from afrinic's allocations and 
>> assignments, so i'd be worried if you could show that this was 
>> unreliable information.
>
> A few months ago, I did some statistics for a country.  As the figures 
> did not match the local environment I did a manual verification of the 
> data.  Afterwards, I noticed that some researchers encountered a 
> similar issue.

.. and when you reported this to afrinic, they said … ?

<tl;dr>  my concern is the accuracy;  it’s ok to make mistakes.
it’s not ok to repeat these.
it’s not ok to ignore them.


>> i'm not certain how one mauritian operator's peering policy is 
>> related to either 6spots, ipv6, or RPD  :-)   but as someone who 
>> follows peering trends in the region, the article was mildly 
>> interesting, thank you.
>
> Discussions about what is claimed to be "critical infrastructure" are 
> related to RPD as that is mentioned in existing policy proposals about 
> IPv4.

fair enough;  but the article didn’t discuss the critical 
infrastructure component (the otherwise functioning MIXP, in this case) 
but rather the results of one ISP’s peering policy, eh?

—n.