<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 4, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Jean Robert Hountomey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>There is a need for strong education and communication with people at layer 8, 9 or 10.<br><br>I know some countries in this 21 century where a /30 cost more than 200 USD/month while we are talking about critical infrastrucutre, enabling access etc..<br><br>And when people decide to go to AfriNIC their unfair answer is "we can't route your block".</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>fight to break monopoly and your world will be better.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--alain<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>----- Original Message ----- From: "SM" <<a href="mailto:sm@resistor.net">sm@resistor.net</a>><br>To: "AfriNIC Resource Policy Discussion List" <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>><br>Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 12:42 PM<br>Subject: Re: [AfriNIC-rpd] IP address management practices/guidelines for ISPs<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">At 07:19 04-03-2009, Jean Robert Hountomey wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">In some countries there are only one ISP (Most of the case the local Telco)<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">1- What can AfriNIC do if the local Telco is refusing to give IP address (for several reasons) ?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The customer can ask AfriNIC to "mediate".<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">2- What can AfriNIC do if the local Telco is refusing to route an ISP's Address blocs if this ISP get his Address bloc fron AfriNIC?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The guidelines says that AfriNIC has no control over routing announcements.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Regards,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-sm<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">rpd mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>rpd mailing list<br><a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>