[rpd] Questions about IP Allocation rate

[Noah]

Ben

There is critical structural challenge in the continents digital landscape
and you more than anyone knows this very well that we also suffer from
uneven maturity of Digital Public Infrastructure and Government Networks
(GovNet), which directly impacts the equitable deployment of essential
digital services across majority of countries across our continent.

Look we are talking about numbering infrastructure that would support
services like e-government, digital IDs, and public/private data exchanges,
while aligning with AFRINIC's exhaustion-phase policies.

We can not shy away from these reality or pretend that there is lack of
foresight from actors at Afrinic and the community at large.

Its a known fact that many of our African governments lack operational
GovNets and strategic reservations of IPv4 address space from AFRINIC could
serve as a targeted incentive to bridge these gaps.



Cheers,
*.**/noah*


On Mon, 13 Oct 2025, 8:34 pm Ben Roberts - AfriNIC, <ben.roberts at afrinic.net>
wrote:

> I think The DPI systems are normally run by state owned digital agency
> entities which are already mostly LIRs having some space. It is not quite
> as you describe being state owned LIRs that have sovereign owned IPs that
> are independent of LIRs..
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 13 Oct 2025, at 20:01, Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
>
> 
> 54 African States are taking public services online.
>
> Digital Public infrastructure (DPI) is nolonger an idea. Its a real thing.
> DPI is critical. The private sector will tap into that infrastructure. Its
> here now.
>
> Each of the 54 African states need address space indepedent of LIR space
> in each sovereign state.
>
> These are not ideas that actors in the private sector care about or think
> about.
>
> Cheers,
> *.**/noah*
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2025, 5:52 pm Andrew Alston, <aa at alstonnetworks.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was wondering if there were updated statistics for the amount of space
>> allocated in the last 3 years.  In addition to this information regarding
>> exactly how much free space is still available in the IPv4 unallocated pool
>> (excluding reservations)
>>
>> I ask this because depending on the allocation rate - we may wish to
>> consider revising the soft-landing policy that currently reserves a /12
>> worth of ipv4 space for "future uses, as yet unforeseen".
>>
>> I point out that the soft landing policy was ratified in 2011, and if we
>> still, after 14 years, have not been able to articulate a clear reason for
>> such a large reservation, I think it's time we look at most, if not all, of
>> that /12 back into the main unallocated pool that can be allocated for
>> African resource holders that actually need it.
>>
>> Amongst other reasons, sitting with unallocated, unannounced, reserved
>> space like this leaves the space vulnerable to hijacking and malicious use
>> or even potential theft.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
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