[rpd] IPv6 as a criteria in IPv4 Soft Landing AFPUB-2026-v6-001-DRAFT01.

[Benson Muite]

"jordi.palet--- via RPD" <rpd at afrinic.net> writes:

> Hi Seun,
>
> I will actually say personally, the only acceptable X=1, but happy to concede with 2. Hopefully we don’t have a discussion and every participant chose a different number, as this is the typical issue when asking for a decision of “number of whatever” in trying to reach consensus.

The low adoption rate is worrying.  Clear criteria to justify IPv4
maybe helpful.  If one gets IPv4, IPv6 is free.  It is good that Afrinic
is doing outreach to universities. From Africa Gabon seems to have the
highest percentage capability:
https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6
India also has good adoption and a diverse set of people in the internet
industry.  Understanding what has lead to adoption in these places may
help guide whether what new policies sohuld be adopted if any and how to
complement these with outreach and education activities.


>
> I will also say that X is only for “single” allocations/assigments, in the sense that if you are doing something for HA (one of the policies that reached consensus yesterday), you must do it with IPv6. There is no sense that you deploy, today, an HA infrastructure without IPv6. What do you think ?
>
> Regards,
> Jordi
>
> @jordipalet
>
>> El 25 jun 2026, a las 2:37, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> escribió:
>> 
>> Hi Jordi,
>> 
>> ----
>> Sent from my mobile
>> kindly excuse typos
>> 
>> On Wed, 24 Jun 2026, 6:14 pm jordi.palet--- via RPD, <rpd at afrinic.net <mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>> wrote:
>>> .
>>> 
>>> So there is no difference in now setting a policy that clearly say, you get more IPv4, but you must also deploy IPv6.
>>> 
>>> We could also do something slightly different, I’m not sure if this is what Seun tried to say in the mic earlier this afternoon.
>>> 
>>> We don’t give any more IPv4 resources if you already got them previously. This has been done by most of the other RIRs. Will you agree with that? Only newcomers can get IPv4.
>> 
>> 
>> SO: More like you don't get IPv4 resources if you already got it for X number of times in the current phase unless you meet the IPv6 deployment plan requirements. My intention is for X not !=Once
>> 
>> Regards 
>>> 
>>> Now, as a 2nd part of the proposal, resources left (even recovered), can be provided to anyone who also deploy IPv6, regardless of being a newcomer or an existing member.
>>> 
>>> What do you think?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Jordi
>>> 
>>> @jordipalet