[rpd] [Community-Discuss] Cloud Innovation Displays Very Poor, If Not Criminal, Netizenship

[Darwin Costa]

> On 2 Jun 2020, at 09:27, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

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> On 1/Jun/20 20:23, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD wrote:

>> We have failed on this, and not just in Africa.

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>> We have invested a lot in training engineers, but we haven’t reached decision makers in a way that convince them sufficiently to take the decision. Some years ago, it was not so easy to probe the point about the cost savings, because we were advocating for dual-stack. But dual-stack is no longer a possible long-term strategy, and now it shows that IPv6-only is much cheaper and possible (IPv6-only transition is “relatively” new).

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> I think it has gotten to a point where things will happen naturally.

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> IPv4 is no longer mostly available at most of the RIR's, is fading at AFRINIC, and is heaps expensive on the open market.

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> All major cloud and content providers (who now carry most of the Internet's traffic) already support IPv6, as do most major equipment and software vendors.

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> So while I think we should not let-up on harping on about why this needs to get done, I believe natural forces are ripe to take effect. As with the Coronavirus, those who are in denial about coming sea-change will be scrambling to adapt.


Fully agree, and we all know the consequences of not adapting on our sector.


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> Mark.


Darwin-.


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