[rpd] Questions about IP Allocation rate

[Noah]

Thanks Andrew

I will look at the graph on a pc as the image on the phone is not clear. I
see four outstanding contries ...

How many countries are those in total.? Sorry i cant see the graph clearly.

Cheers,
*.**/noah*


On Tue, 14 Oct 2025, 12:45 pm Andrew Alston, <aa at alstonnetworks.net> wrote:

> I've run the data downloaded from the AfriNIC stats page to create a graph
> (attached)
>
> This graph shows space allocated per country and classified as
> "Government" or "Government Entity" and is done in terms of number of /24s.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben
>>
>> Yes lets get us get that data from Afrinic. It would be interesting to
>> know how many African Govt have Internet Resources or which govt entities
>> have internet resources in each country.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> *.**/noah*
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 14 Oct 2025, 5:41 am Ben Roberts - AfriNIC, <
>> ben.roberts at afrinic.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Ok. What we probably need is to have IP allocation statistics by African
>>> country. We can ask Afrinic for this to be complied. From that you can work
>>> out how many IP addresses a country has per capita of population.   Our
>>> policy setting needs to be guided by data and research, not rumour.
>>>
>>> According to this website, Eritrea has just over 5000 IP addresses.
>>> https://lite.ip2location.com/eritrea-ip-address-ranges This is on the
>>> extreme low side for a country of nearly 4 million population. Seychelles
>>> on the other hand with population under 150,000 has multiple tens of IP
>>> addresses (allocated to Seychelles registered companies) per capita.
>>>
>>> Countries that have very low uptake of IP addresses will likely be
>>> mostly ones where regulators have not opened up the space to grant new ISP
>>> licences, my example of Eritrea has only one AS number for instance. Whilst
>>> AfrNIC can hold back some space for countries that forgot to build their
>>> digital economies…, the regulators in these countries need to be engaged to
>>> tell them “it’s now or never”.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On 13 Oct 2025, at 22:25, Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>> 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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