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[rpd] inputs on IPv4 Inter-RIR policy proposals
DANIEL NANGHAKA
dndannang at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 18:42:47 UTC 2019
Aleruchi,
We are not after making friends, we are after driving consensus on a policy
on what will work best for the sustainable internet development of Africa.
Daniel K. Nanghaka
On Jun 18, 2019 9:22 PM, <rpd-request at afrinic.net> wrote:
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> 1. Re: inputs on IPv4 Inter-RIR policy proposals - AFRINIC needs
> this policy now! (JORDI PALET MARTINEZ)
> 2. Re: inputs on IPv4 Inter-RIR policy proposals - AFRINIC needs
> this policy now! (Lee Howard)
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> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:14:01 +0300
> From: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet at consulintel.es>
> To: "rpd >> AfriNIC Resource Policy" <rpd at afrinic.net>
> Subject: Re: [rpd] inputs on IPv4 Inter-RIR policy proposals - AFRINIC
> needs this policy now!
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> I really believe that in general, nobody working on RIR policies, or in
> general Internet, will have that view even if we don?t reach consensus in
> this policy.
>
>
>
> However, it will make more difficult for everyone in the region to
> increase business, or to create new business, and will not help to deploy
> IPv6.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jordi
>
> @jordipalet
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> El 18/6/19 21:10, "aleruchi chuku via RPD" <rpd at afrinic.net> escribi?:
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> Paschal, the summary is simply that if we do not support this policy, it
> will result in stagnancy for the region with no "friends".
>
> Let's support this policy.
>
> It's for our good
>
>
>
> Aleruchi
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> On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 8:54 pm, Paschal Ochang
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> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:20:23 -0400
> From: Lee Howard <lee.howard at retevia.net>
> To: Paschal Ochang <pascosoft at gmail.com>, "rpd >> AfriNIC Resource
> Policy" <rpd at afrinic.net>
> Subject: Re: [rpd] inputs on IPv4 Inter-RIR policy proposals - AFRINIC
> needs this policy now!
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> I can't guarantee that more resources will flow in than out.
>
> There is a risk that people in Africa will not be willing to spend as
> much to buy addresses as people in the ARIN, RIPE-NCC, or APNIC regions.
> When an address costs $20 (and next year, maybe $30 or $40), it is hard
> to pay that where Internet access is $100 per year.
>
> An ISP who makes $10 profit per year per customer may sell some IPv4
> addresses so they can buy NAT64 equipment, and push IPv6 to the users.
> That ISP will be better off financially, and better able to support
> their customers. But that's just my opinion; I could be convinced
> otherwise.
>
> I look forward to Jordi's presentation.
>
> Lee
>
> On 6/18/19 1:52 PM, Paschal Ochang wrote:
> >
> > Based on your analogy Howard it therefore means that this policy will
> > benefit the region. The major fear is not just the balance of
> > resources flow but? more resources going out and less coming in and
> > this proposal clearly shows that this region will benefit from the
> > policy because more resources will flow in the region. Is there any
> > region that will allow only outflow of resources without inflow?? I
> > don't think so.
> > On Tuesday, June 18, 2019, Lee Howard <lee.howard at retevia.net
> > <mailto:lee.howard at retevia.net>> wrote:
> >
> > This is interesting.
> >
> > My logic goes like this:
> >
> > 1. Afrinic has a finite number of IPv4 addresses to allocate/assign.
> >
> > 2. Afrinic will run out of those addresses next year.
> >
> > 3. Once Afrinic runs out, any network needing more IPv4 addresses
> > not be able to get them from Afrinic.
> >
> > 4. Networks needing more addresses will have choices:
> >
> > ? 4a. Stop growing.
> >
> > ? 4b. Use (carrier-grade) NAT. Even NAT requires some IPv4 addresses.
> >
> > ? 4c. Try to find addresses inside Africa that are for sale.
> >
> > Evaluating those options:
> >
> > 4a is bad for the region.
> >
> > 4b is complicated. It means buying more hardware, updating some
> > systems. Some things don't work well with NAT. If you can deploy
> > IPv6 and use NAT64, 464xlat, MAP-T or MAP-E, you reduce that cost,
> > but it's still more than you spend now.
> >
> > 4c could get very expensive. Demand for IPv4 addresses has been
> > around 25,000 /24s per year (with some much higher peaks) since
> > Afrinic was founded.[1] The Afrinic region has about seven /8s in
> > total.[2] If demand? continues, then more than 6M of those 112M
> > addresses would have to be traded every year, somewhere between
> > 1/2% - 1%.
> >
> > The question then is whether you think there are more
> > underutilized IPv4 addresses in the U.S. or in Africa. Assuming a
> > perfect market:
> >
> > If Africa is more efficient, and Afrinic's transfer policy is
> > only within the region, then the few unused IPv4 addresses
> > will sell for a higher price than addresses elsewhere.[3]
> >
> > If Africa is less efficient and Afrinic's transfer policy is
> > only within the region, then unused addresses will be cheaper
> > than elsewhere.
> >
> > If Africa is more efficient and Afrinic has an inter-regional
> > transfer policy, addresses will be valued more highly in
> > Africa and addresses will come in.
> >
> > If Africa is less efficient that the rest of the world and
> > Afrinic has an inter-regional transfer policy, buyers in other
> > countries will buy addresses from Africa.
> >
> > My guess is that addresses in Africa are pretty efficiently
> > utilized, and therefore people in Africa will have a higher need
> > for addresses than people elsewhere, and therefore a) prices will
> > rise, and b) addresses will tend to flow in to Africa rather than
> out.
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> > [1] https://afrinic.net/stats/ipv4
> >
> > [2]
> > https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/NRO-Statistics-2019-Q1.pdf
> > <https://www.nro.net/wp-content/uploads/NRO-Statistics-2019-Q1.pdf>
> >
> > [3] https://www.retevia.net/address-pricing-2019-and-beyond/
> > <https://www.retevia.net/address-pricing-2019-and-beyond/> easily
> > $30 per address next year, maybe much higher
> >
> > On 6/18/19 8:18 AM, Pascal ANDRIANISA wrote:
> >> Thank you Jordi
> >> if in the opposite case the remaining resources at AFRINIC will be
> transferred to other RIRs. It is true that I am not against but I do not
> agree that the current resources insufficient according to the information
> I received since AFRINIC-29 will be transferred to other RIR.
> >> If you can guarantee this balance of resources transfer I think it
> will be logical for AFRINIC. Unlike so if AFRINIC has a lot of resources it
> will be good for the community.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Pascal Heriliva ANDRIANISA
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> >> ----- Mail original -----
> >> De: "rpd"<rpd at afrinic.net> <mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>
> >> ?: "rpd"<rpd at afrinic.net> <mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>
> >> Envoy?: Mardi 18 Juin 2019 14:55:02
> >> Objet: Re: [rpd] inputs on IPv4 Inter-RIR policy proposals -
> AFRINIC needs this policy now!
> >>
> >> Hi Pascal,
> >>
> >> Precisely what you said is the argument in favor of this policy
> proposal, not against.
> >>
> >> AFRINIC don't have enough resources. The only way to receive
> resources is a policy that allows that other regions that are "giving up"
> resources, can get them.
> >>
> >> This is the case for LACNIC (the same policy proposal reached
> consensus in the last meeting and yesterday the consensus decision was
> handed out to the board for the final ratification), and for AFRINIC.
> >>
> >> AFRINIC must have an equivalent policy proposal to the ones that
> exist in the other regions, otherwise, you will not get sufficient
> resources for the continued implementation of IPv4 in the region and this
> will also be a barrier for the IPv6 deployment.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Jordi
> >> @jordipalet
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ?El 18/6/19 10:48, "Pascal ANDRIANISA"<pascal at irenala.edu.mg>
> <mailto:pascal at irenala.edu.mg> escribi?:
> >>
> >> Hi Jordi,
> >> I read the policy proposal for IPV4 Inter-RIR Transfert.
> >> The article =>https://www.afrinic.net/
> policy/proposals/2019-v4-002-d1#proposal <https://www.afrinic.net/
> policy/proposals/2019-v4-002-d1#proposal>
> >> I think this is not the benefit of AFRINIC as resources are
> currently insufficient for AFRINIC.
> >> Otherwise it is necessary to balance the transfers between RIR
> because at least the number of resources is limited to sending to other
> RIRs.
> >>
> >> I do not support this policy for this reason, The AFRINIC's
> resources are not enough for AFRICA, why transfer them elsewhere ....
> >>
> >> Pascal Heriliva ANDRIANISA
> >> Webmaster i RENALA
> >> R esearch and E ducation N etwork for A cademic and L earning
> A ctivities - [http://www.irenala.edu.mg/ |http://www.irenala.edu.mg/ ]
> >> Porte 201 - Minist?re de l'Enseignement Sup?rieur et de la
> Recherche Scientifique - Fiadanana
> >> GSM :+261 (0) 32 46 680 29 | +261 (0) 34 30 680 29
> >>
> >> ----- Mail original -----
> >> De: "rpd"<rpd at afrinic.net> <mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>
> >> ?: "rpd"<rpd at afrinic.net> <mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>
> >> Envoy?: Samedi 15 Juin 2019 13:23:23
> >> Objet: [rpd] inputs on IPv4 Inter-RIR policy proposals -
> AFRINIC needs this policy now!
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I wonder if anyone has inputs on the policy proposals for IPv4
> Inter-RIR transfers.
> >>
> >> https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-v4-001-d1 <
> https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-v4-001-d1>
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-v4-002-d1 <
> https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-v4-002-d1>
> >>
> >> I will be presenting both of them together on Wednesday 19th.
> If you're not in Kampala, make sure to participate remotely (
> https://www.internetsummit.africa/en/participate-remotely <
> https://www.internetsummit.africa/en/participate-remotely>), so we can
> resolve any doubts on the spot.
> >>
> >> This is a key issue for AFRINIC, which now is the *only* RIR
> not allowing those transfers.
> >>
> >> AFRINIC is soon (probably around end of this year) entering in
> exhaustion phase 2, so it will become more and more difficult to obtain
> IPv4. If transfers from other regions aren't allowed, this will be an added
> difficulty for the Internet growth in the region, and increase the
> difficulties for the continued IPv6 deployment.
> >>
> >> The region needs this policy *now*, because the implementation
> requires several months as there is a need to coordinate with the systems
> of the other RIRs, in order to ensure a transparent transfers process.
> >>
> >> So, what is your opinion?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Jordi
> >> @jordipalet
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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