Hello SM,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:26 PM, SM <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sm@resistor.net" target="_blank">sm@resistor.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
"IXPs in Africa count their throughput in megabit per second, and sometimes even<br>
kilobit per second. The rest of the world tends to be concerned with gigabit<br>
per second."<br>
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There hasn't been much of a change since then. </blockquote><div><br>Hmmm...i think the past few years has witnessed major bandwidth boost across the continent (at least for the intra/inter-continent cables) <br> <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> There is a well-known provider established outside the region which sees about 50% of its traffic coming from a well-known company. Some parts of that traffic ends up in Africa. Anyone who has an interest in Africa as a whole might wish to look into the details and see whether it can help reduce the cost of Internet access in the region.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Okay, perhaps further clarifying what you mean here could help. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Getting IP addresses cheaply is a minor part as the picture. </blockquote><div> </div><div>I agree if your point is related to cost as i think the cost is relatively fair(for end users) at the moment. <br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
If this proposal can ease the distribution of IP addresses to over 50 universities in the region (I excluded Nigeria and South Africa for obvious reasons) it can be a good thing.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Just curious any specific obvious reason for the !(NG and ZA) filter ;) If i may guess, will this be because of the number of Institution in the 2 countries? if that is the case, i think it will improve consumption of v4 and encourage v6 deployment. However, it should not matter whether all the 50 universities all come from the same country.<br>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
>From an IP addressing perspective the following suggestion is a bad idea. I suggest adding a condition in the proposal for connectivity to an IXP within the region.<br></blockquote><div><br>Hmmm...using Internet Exchange Point as a condition may automatically disqualify some countries that does not even have an IXP....if you meant to say ISP then i agree (although i feel that is the normal proceed)<br>
<br>Regards<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Regards,<br>
-sm <br><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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