<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 28, 2013, at 02:10 , Seun Ojedeji <<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Nii Narku Quaynor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:quaynor@ghana.com" target="_blank">quaynor@ghana.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div>Thanks. What prevents a university from receiving a 10:1 via current policies<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>I also agree as the current policy as i quote below does not indicate any upper boundary limit<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
<span style="line-height:115%">3.5) Under the policy, HEI shall be
eligible to receive IPv4 resources at a ratio not less than 5 IPv4
addresses per campus user, where campus user is defined in 3.2). </span></blockquote><div> </div>In view of this, i suggest a modification as thus:<br><br><span style="line-height:115%">3.5) Under the policy, HEI shall be
eligible to receive IPv4 resources at a ratio not <b>more</b> than 5 IPv4
addresses per campus user, where campus user is defined in 3.2). </span><br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Seun, I think you misunderstand.</div><div><br></div><div>The policy does not require them to request at least 5:1. The policy as written means that AfriNIC cannot request additional justification for any request ≤ 5:1.</div><div><br></div><div>Your proposed modification would, instead, reverse this such that AfriNIC could require additional justification at any ration and further could flat out deny any</div><div>request in excess of 5:1 which I think would have unintended consequences.</div><div><br></div><div>The intent was not to have an upper limit if sufficient justification is provided, but to streamline the justification process for any amount up to and including 5:1.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Since some institution may actually prefer to use less than 5 to 1 ratio, not because they don't want but probably because of the infrastructure limitation they have which is largely related to funding<br>
<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I would recommend that such an institution obtain the addresses and then seek additional funding for their network.</div><div><br></div><div>I do not believe that minimizing address requests up front is a winning or desirable strategy at the current rate of evolution of network capabilities in the region.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div></body></html>