<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Wingdings;
panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Wingdings;
panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Garamond;
panose-1:2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8 3;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Badru.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Its not students really needing those IPs but rather their devices. <o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Which are not part of the academical institution<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sorry but I find this rationalization a little bizarre. A student brings a phone / tablet to the University campus with them and uses the device on Campus to access campus resources, it is being used for academic purpose and is integrally related to the University. You *<b>CANNOT</b>* classify this as LIR space anyway because by AfriNIC rules you have to register IP allocations from an LIR to end users. If you classify the student devices as additional end users, you have to statically assign them IPs and create records for each and every user in the AfriNIC database… come on… give me a break…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Here is the Scenario, a student who has 2 mobile phones (1 android and the other blackberry) both wireless enabled, one laptop, and one ipad ;)<br>By default, he/she turns the wireless features at intermediates, but the fact is they never remember to turn one off before switching to another. Even if they did turn off one for the other, depending on the lease time in use on your network, their is almost a 90% assurance that the newly turned on device will not be assigned the IP of the former device hence a new IP will be required.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And the problem with this is? Firstly, most won’t be carrying two phones, they are likely to be carrying a phone and a tablet, used for very different purposes. The phone uses the IP address for many things, potentially for example to SIP connect into the Universities phone network (this is being worked on at at least 3 institutions I know of right now), and roams onto the university voice network instead of the GSM network in order to provide the student with at-cost communications. This allows the University to cut its own costs in communication with the students. The tablet, if they are using that to browse the web etc through the University infrastructure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So question is we want to give the IP's to the university for academic reasons. The two phones are provided by a commercial network operator who already has IP's. Why is the university wanting to get involved here. Then at the same time the university will ask for concessions. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Errr, because if a student is using his phone/tablet/notebook to connect to University wifi to access academic resources, he should not have to keep paying to do so. If he uses a provider supplied IP address, it means he routes via the provider network, is paying per megabyte download costs, has FAR higher latency to the academic resources on the campus through his mobile device and generally has a poorer experience. Furthermore, what you are suggesting DIRECTLY contributes to the widening of the digital divide in campus. The rich students who can afford high 3G / HSDPA / GPRS bills and can afford to browse resources through their phones etc get a *<b>FAR</b>* better academic experience than one who cannot, and is restricted from using the University network to do so. Do you really want AfriNIC to get involved in increasing the digital divide? Because that is what you are proposing…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>How about we focus on just the acadmical infrastructure and if we want to go the the BYOD (bring your own device) just offer this to one device which will hopefully be the laptop or tablet device. <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>Let me explain something about the BYOD strategy on University campuses (where University budgets are extremely stretched).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In a recent evaluation exercise I did with regards to providing Laboratory seats to students as compared to letting them bring their own devices. At current the university in question has *<b>1700</b>* laboratory seats for students, that lab is full 80% of the time, you have to queue for seats. The cost per LAB seat to deploy is in excess of $1400 per seat. If you roll out comprehensive wifi access, and let students bring their own devices, there is no congestion for LAB seats and the costs drop substantially. Furthermore, the students can then carry their work with them rather than having to go back to the lab every day to access it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In a calculation we did for a particular institution, the cost savings of a BYOD strategy were so high that it justified the rollout of more than a million dollars worth of WIFI kit, and the usage on that wifi network has been *<b>HIGH</b>* since then. Interestingly enough, the Labs are still pretty full, the queues are just… shorter </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>But, if you are suggesting we widen the digital divide by providing less access to the poor than to the rich which is the effect of what you are proposing… well… I’m surprised…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <br>Regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal>Jack<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" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>------------------------------------------------------------------------<span style='color:#888888'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#006600'>Seun Ojedeji,<br>Federal University Oye-Ekiti<br>web: </span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#888888'><a href="http://www.fuoye.edu.ng/" target="_blank">http://www.fuoye.edu.ng</a><br></span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#006600'>Mobile: +2348035233535</span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#888888'><br></span></i><i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#006600'>alt email:<a href="http://goog_1872880453/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@fuoye.edu.ng" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@fuoye.edu.ng</a></span></i><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#888888'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><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><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>