[rpd] Confirmation of the 3mil recovered space? Re: Promoting IPv6 adoption

[Hendrik Visage]

On 28 May 2026, at 17:27, jordi.palet--- via RPD wrote:

> Note that Afrinic recovered 3.000.000 of address,

Has this been “published” and are public knowledge? When are those 
expected to become “active” and distributable?

Seems that places like https://ipv6.he.net/statistics/ still only shows 
1mil (~4000 x /24s, or 1000x /22s), ~75 /22 per African Country left.

In the “bigger” IPv4 vs IPv6 allocation scheme, these are the 
numbers to consider and debate/work on: How are we going to “evenly 
and equitably” distribute those IP blocks across the Africa countries?

Perhaps the questions might need to be asked: Instead of adding IPv6 
targets, what about allocate the remainder to the ~50 African Countries, 
based on some inverse of historical allocation based scheme? ie. if 
country X has eg. 10x  /24 IPv4 blocks per million inhabitants, and ,
Country Y only has 2x /24 per million users, how would we reserve /24 
blocks for those two countries? 1x for Country X and 5x for Country Y ? 
or just say 75x /24s per country?

The next question that I believe is the elephant in the room: Are we 
trying to assist/reserve resources to get internet rolled out to under 
served areas and countries, or still playing the Voldemort game of chess 
on a checkers board by seeing “Intellectual Property”/“Commodity 
Value” of IPv4s?

If we are playing the latter, then I’d say: Put ALL the IPv4s (as /24s 
:)=) ) on AUCTION - caveat: The price you bid is the price you’ll pay 
per year for the lifetime you have that resource allocated to you, even 
if newer price “drops” gets implemented on other resources…

If we are looking at reserving for future country roll outs, then we 
should rather enter a hard land phase and say: This is the resource 
allocation per country - period, and if a country’s allocation runs 
out, that was it, sorry, no more for you country (and than Voldemort can 
be contacted) - I am staying a a country that the above allocation (or 
even the 75x /22s) will run out the fastest, and will complain the 
loudest.

See IPv6 roll out will *have* to be a financial decision, as many others 
(Like Jaco Kroon - that feels the same like me about the needs and 
benefits os IPv6 roll out, but are experiencing the client/customer push 
backs) have stated that AfriNIC as such can’t “legislate” IPv6 (we 
can only lobby Countries to consider that) and even though I agree with 
the idea of forcing IPv6 usage before giving out IPv4s, I have to admit: 
AfriNIC can’t really police that as a policy.



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