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<DIV>Although I agree that no academic institution deserve any special treatment please take the following into consideration.<BR>South African universities have already got IP space and infrastructure. Under the old policy you would need to be able to<BR>provide justification to be allocated IP space. The problem with this is that smaller universities on the African continent have been left <BR>behind because they cannot justify their request for IP space. This policy is actually to the benefit of poorer academic institutions<BR>wishing to expand their infrastructure and also to have a proper internet presence. Even if a poorer university is lacking<BR>in terms of infrastructure - they will at least have IP space available to utilize. I regret that you feel that South African students are rich.<BR>Just to give you an example - many student don't even have enough food to eat and our university has a community project called <BR>"No student Hungry" where people can donate money for food for students. I include a link for your perusal.</DIV>
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<DIV>Would you rather have your IP resources dished out to other indirect entities that have no direct benefit for African development, and whose only<BR>aim is to make money from the African continent? Please do not let culture or race get in the way of making a decision regarding IP resources as<BR>it has no place in this community. I believe that everyone involved here honestly want to improve the lives of the African people.</DIV>
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<DIV>As for your comment regarding Africa haters I can tell you that you are sorrily mistaken. Andrew Alston is actively involved in the development<BR>of African networks and has had a vast impact on providing better, faster and cheaper internet connectivity in Africa. He is most definitely<BR>not only involved in South Africa, but he is and has been involved in connectivity in Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia just to name </DIV>
<DIV>a few from the top of my head. He has spent huge amounts of money from his own pocket to travel throughout Africa and improve the internet for Africans. </DIV>
<DIV>I feel that an apology might be in order.</DIV>
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<DIV>Louis<BR><BR>>>> <rpd-request@afrinic.net> 2013/06/22 10:34 AM >>><BR>Send rpd mailing list submissions to<BR>rpd@afrinic.net<BR><BR>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<BR><A href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd</A><BR>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<BR>rpd-request@afrinic.net<BR><BR>You can reach the person managing the list at<BR>rpd-owner@afrinic.net<BR><BR>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<BR>than "Re: Contents of rpd digest..."<BR><BR><BR>Today's Topics:<BR><BR> 1. Re: PDP discussions (Sunday Folayan)<BR> 2. Re: PDP discussions (Sunday Folayan)<BR> 3. Re: PDP discussions (Jackson Muthili)<BR> 4. Re: PDP discussions (McTim)<BR> 5. Re: PDP discussions (Owen DeLong)<BR> 6. Re: PDP discussions (Andrew Alston)<BR> 7. Re: PDP discussions (Sunday Folayan)<BR><BR><BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 1<BR>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:48:02 +0100<BR>From: Sunday Folayan <sfolayan@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [AFRINIC-rpd] PDP discussions<BR>To: Viv Padayatchy <viv.padayatchy@cybernaptics.mu><BR>Cc: 'Alan Barrett' <apb@cequrux.com>, 'rpd' <rpd@afrinic.net><BR>Message-ID: <51C4CA12.4050604@gmail.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR><BR>On 21/06/2013 17:10, Viv Padayatchy wrote:<BR>> Then we should call a cat a cat.<BR>><BR>> In this case, I would like this policy to be reformulated in order to make<BR>> this clear to the community.<BR><BR>Viv, anyone in the community can read the RPD archives. I believe the <BR>policy evolved to the current form, so nothing is hidden.<BR><BR>Sunday.<BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 2<BR>Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 00:00:21 +0100<BR>From: Sunday Folayan <sfolayan@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [AFRINIC-rpd] PDP discussions<BR>To: Jackson Muthili <jacksonmuthi@gmail.com><BR>Cc: rpd <rpd@afrinic.net>, Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com><BR>Message-ID: <51C4DB05.2030607@gmail.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR><BR>On 21/06/2013 20:31, Jackson Muthili wrote:<BR>> I join Maye Dioup to strongly ++ oppose this proposal.<BR>><BR>> No special treatment deserve by universities. And i say it before and<BR>> i say it again. Author selfishly consider large South African<BR>> university with rich students. South africa not representive of rest<BR>> of africa sorry.<BR><BR>Jackson, There are two Authors please, and one is not South African. <BR>When I last looked at the map, South Africa is still part of Africa.<BR><BR>Universities remain moulders of character and knowledge. When you put <BR>back into your alma-mata by way of endowment, is that preferential <BR>treatment? Just curious. As I argued during the presentation of the <BR>policy, they remain the best entity that symbolizes the Past, the <BR>present and the future all rolled into one. A student today is a <BR>business or world leader in the next 5 years. The gown feeds the town!!<BR><BR>This policy actually gives those smaller universities a better chance at <BR>getting the needed resources as the end game plays out. For the bigger <BR>universities, we can look at a more equitable fee structure, as a means <BR>of levelling the playing field.<BR><BR>It is still a reasonable option for burning V4 space while caring for <BR>the future.<BR><BR>Sunday.<BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 3<BR>Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 05:24:25 +0200<BR>From: Jackson Muthili <jacksonmuthi@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [AFRINIC-rpd] PDP discussions<BR>To: Sunday Folayan <sfolayan@gmail.com><BR>Cc: rpd <rpd@afrinic.net>, Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com><BR>Message-ID:<BR><CA+DdLrRFzAvUPMPbAfS7aOc478FhN=9K3pjNGsghMq_Kr7eisw@mail.gmail.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<BR><BR>On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Sunday Folayan <sfolayan@gmail.com> wrote:<BR>> On 21/06/2013 20:31, Jackson Muthili wrote:<BR>>><BR>>> I join Maye Dioup to strongly ++ oppose this proposal.<BR>>><BR>>> No special treatment deserve by universities. And i say it before and<BR>>> i say it again. Author selfishly consider large South African<BR>>> university with rich students. South africa not representive of rest<BR>>> of africa sorry.<BR>><BR>><BR>> Jackson, There are two Authors please, and one is not South African. When I<BR>> last looked at the map, South Africa is still part of Africa.<BR>><BR>> Universities remain moulders of character and knowledge. When you put back<BR>> into your alma-mata by way of endowment, is that preferential treatment?<BR>> Just curious. As I argued during the presentation of the policy, they remain<BR>> the best entity that symbolizes the Past, the present and the future all<BR>> rolled into one. A student today is a business or world leader in the next 5<BR>> years. The gown feeds the town!!<BR>><BR>> This policy actually gives those smaller universities a better chance at<BR>> getting the needed resources as the end game plays out. For the bigger<BR>> universities, we can look at a more equitable fee structure, as a means of<BR>> levelling the playing field.<BR>><BR>> It is still a reasonable option for burning V4 space while caring for the<BR>> future.<BR>><BR>> Sunday.<BR>><BR><BR>You guy keep saying burning v4 space. why you want to burn Africa's v4<BR>space? What Africa has done to you? if you think burning v4 space take<BR>us quickly to v6 space why there is lucrative transfer market? I tell<BR>you when v4 is burned out you will see it was no good thing. Africa<BR>environment is unique from other. we take time to understand and<BR>deploy. While we do we need our v4 longer.<BR><BR>Burning v4 space create immediate huge problem. New ISP will find it<BR>expensive to buy IPV4 from trasnfer maket and broker and reality of<BR>course IPV6 not a solution. WE STILL NEED IPV4 short and MEDIUM TERM<BR>so that to also use IPv6! Cost of doing ISP business goes high. Cost<BR>is transfer to client and cost of internet connection goes high again.<BR><BR>Let us take a slow steady transition not Africa haters Sunday and<BR>Andrew who want to ditch their people into hole and burn continents<BR>IPV4.<BR><BR>Jack<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 4<BR>Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:43:38 -0400<BR>From: McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [AFRINIC-rpd] PDP discussions<BR>To: Jackson Muthili <jacksonmuthi@gmail.com><BR>Cc: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>, rpd <rpd@afrinic.net><BR>Message-ID:<BR><CACAaNxiRk3aUCge-btBa_jatLZvd6SaM5keqmymZ8wwZ5uCv2A@mail.gmail.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<BR><BR>Jackson,<BR><BR>On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Jackson Muthili<BR><jacksonmuthi@gmail.com> wrote:<BR><BR>>><BR>><BR>> You guy keep saying burning v4 space. why you want to burn Africa's v4<BR>> space?<BR><BR>some would like to hasten the transition to IPv6, in fact, I think<BR>most if not all would like this.<BR><BR>What Africa has done to you? if you think burning v4 space take<BR>> us quickly to v6 space why there is lucrative transfer market? I tell<BR>> you when v4 is burned out you will see it was no good thing. Africa<BR>> environment is unique from other. we take time to understand and<BR>> deploy. While we do we need our v4 longer.<BR><BR>This is why the community has enacted a soft-landing policy.<BR><BR><BR>><BR>> Burning v4 space create immediate huge problem. New ISP will find it<BR>> expensive to buy IPV4 from trasnfer maket and broker and reality of<BR>> course IPV6 not a solution. WE STILL NEED IPV4 short and MEDIUM TERM<BR>> so that to also use IPv6! Cost of doing ISP business goes high. Cost<BR>> is transfer to client and cost of internet connection goes high again.<BR>><BR>> Let us take a slow steady transition not Africa haters Sunday and<BR>> Andrew who want to ditch their people into hole and burn continents<BR>> IPV4.<BR><BR>Please do not attack people personally. You can debate their ideas without<BR>ad hominem attacks.<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>McTim<BR>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A<BR>route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 5<BR>Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 06:56:26 +0200<BR>From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com><BR>Subject: Re: [AFRINIC-rpd] PDP discussions<BR>To: Jackson Muthili <jacksonmuthi@gmail.com><BR>Cc: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>, rpd <rpd@afrinic.net><BR>Message-ID: <23D25727-14C4-4325-A7A9-266FCF84BDA2@delong.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1<BR><BR>I'm not defending the policy. Frankly, I don't think it was the right solution to the problem that was intended to be addressed. However, having said that...<BR><BR>I don't believe that the point of this policy was to burn IPv4 space. I believe the point was to make it available to universities in a controlled manner that facilitates greater ICT development around the region.<BR><BR>I don't believe that the authors had nefarious intent, nor do I believe that the policy will be particularly harmful or consume the free pool rapidly.<BR><BR>> You guy keep saying burning v4 space. why you want to burn Africa's v4<BR>> space? What Africa has done to you? if you think burning v4 space take<BR>> us quickly to v6 space why there is lucrative transfer market? I tell<BR>> you when v4 is burned out you will see it was no good thing. Africa<BR>> environment is unique from other. we take time to understand and<BR>> deploy. While we do we need our v4 longer.<BR><BR>In reality, having a large free pool is proving harmful. It has created the false perception among many that IPv4 still has a future. During the conference, I heard many people say that the AfriNIC free pool meant that Africa could delay IPv6 deployment until 2020. Nothing could be further from the truth. Waiting until 2020 to deploy IPv6 would turn Africa into a disconnected ghetto on the sidelines of the internet. Early IPv6 deployment (along side a better IPv4 rollout) provides Africa with the opportunity to at least keep pace with, if not leap frog the rest of the world, yet the large AfriNIC free pool seems to be a contributing factor to tremendous IPv4 complacency in the region.<BR><BR>> Burning v4 space create immediate huge problem. New ISP will find it<BR>> expensive to buy IPV4 from trasnfer maket and broker and reality of<BR>> course IPV6 not a solution. WE STILL NEED IPV4 short and MEDIUM TERM<BR>> so that to also use IPv6! Cost of doing ISP business goes high. Cost<BR>> is transfer to client and cost of internet connection goes high again.<BR><BR>IPv6 isn't a solution today, but even with this policy, it will be a solution by the time AfriNIC runs out of IPv4 space. We are a very small number of content sites away from IPv6 being usable for 90+% of web requests. It could already be used for upwards of 75% today. Some universities that have already deployed IPv6 are seeming more than 60% of their traffic flow over IPv6 automatically.<BR><BR>While IPv6 may not be a complete solution today, it is a vital part of preparing a network for tomorrow.<BR><BR>> Let us take a slow steady transition not Africa haters Sunday and<BR>> Andrew who want to ditch their people into hole and burn continents<BR>> IPV4.<BR><BR>I think this comment is utterly and completely uncalled for. While I accept that it is perfectly valid for you to disagree with their position, I do not think you can legitimately characterize them as haters of the region. Such accusations do not further the discussion and only serve to inflame and divide. IMHO, such ad hominem attacks have no place on RPD, even in cases where they may be accurate (which I don't believe is the case here).<BR><BR>Owen<BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 6<BR>Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 08:33:19 +0200<BR>From: Andrew Alston <alston.networks@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [AFRINIC-rpd] PDP discussions<BR>To: Viv Padayatchy <viv.padayatchy@cybernaptics.mu>,"'Sunday<BR>Folayan'" <sfolayan@gmail.com><BR>Cc: 'rpd' <rpd@afrinic.net>, 'Alan Barrett' <apb@cequrux.com><BR>Message-ID: <CDEB0E57.6D81%alston.networks@gmail.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain;charset="US-ASCII"<BR><BR>Hi All,<BR><BR>While I do not have the email I am responding to on his notebook due to<BR>lack of mail sync and I am typing this as I fly back to South Africa, I<BR>have the mail from Jackson on my phone, and I need to respond to a number<BR>of issues.<BR><BR>Let us first look at the remarks about advantaging rich South and East<BR>African universities. This argument is fallacious at best, at worst it<BR>shows that the individual commenting had not bothered to read the policy<BR>at all or was deliberately attempting to mislead this community. The<BR>policy removes the need for certain documentation and justification that<BR>large, rich universities would have no issue providing, which could<BR>however be far more problematic for smaller, less wealthy institutions to<BR>provide. Hence, it actually advantages those universities who are still<BR>building their infrastructure rather than sitting with already well<BR>established networks.<BR><BR>Secondly, I wish to address the question of IPv4 burn rate and the<BR>objections on this list. The fact that this policy would result in faster<BR>usage of the available pool was made very plain at the microphone by both<BR>Sunday and myself when presenting this policy. The community heard this,<BR>and accepted the policy. I believe this is probably because yes, it<BR>increases the usage of the available pool, but it keeps the space where it<BR>belongs, in Africa, for the African people. Without increasing the burn<BR>rate, rest assured the space would disappear off our continent fairly<BR>quickly.<BR><BR>I point to the fact that currently, to my knowledge, there is *NOTHING* in<BR>current policy aside from the soft landing policy that stops organisations<BR>using space assigned by AfriNIC in places outside of the African region.<BR>This policy will at least lock the space to Africa.<BR><BR>My second last point is, to my knowledge, this policy passed with a<BR>greater on the floor consensus of any policy in African PDP history<BR>(personal observation and echoed by others), the community overwhelmingly<BR>supported this by a massive majority. While I respect the democratic<BR>right of any member to disagree with the policy, I do ask that the<BR>decision that was taken by the community, by show of hands, and by massive<BR>majority be respected as well.<BR><BR>Lastly. Jackson, you had the audacity to call Sunday and myself "Africa<BR>haters" and claim we "want to drop you all in a hole", while at the same<BR>time echoing some pretty anti-southern/eastern african sentiments. To you<BR>I have this to say. The attitudes you choose to display are the very<BR>things that stop this continent advancing, it is these sentiments which<BR>destroy the very unity of this continent that could lead it to being so<BR>much more than it currently is. It is these attitudes that allow the<BR>colonial powers to exercise the power they do, because we as an African<BR>people are not united. I therefore put to you that you and those like you<BR>are the ones destroying this continent through your small minded, shallow<BR>and racial attitudes. Grow up, it has no place in this community.<BR><BR>Andrew<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------<BR><BR>Message: 7<BR>Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:33:03 +0100<BR>From: Sunday Folayan <sfolayan@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [AFRINIC-rpd] PDP discussions<BR>To: Jackson Muthili <jacksonmuthi@gmail.com><BR>Cc: rpd <rpd@afrinic.net>, Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com><BR>Message-ID: <51C5613F.8060804@gmail.com><BR>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<BR><BR>On 22/06/2013 04:24, Jackson Muthili wrote:<BR>> Let us take a slow steady transition not Africa haters Sunday and <BR>> Andrew who want to ditch their people into hole and burn continents <BR>> IPV4. Jack <BR><BR>Jackson,<BR><BR>Do you really understand how to debate?<BR><BR>I vividly remember as a kid, my mother holding me steady for one of my <BR>immunization shots. I thought she and the Nurse are incarnates of the <BR>great horned devil at that time. Illiteracy, I will say. 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