<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hi Badru,</div><div><br></div><div>I've had this discussion already and as per my commitment and a request from AfriNIC, we are attempting to sensitise both UbuntuNet (East Africa) and WACREN (West Africa) to the fact that this policy may soon become reality and they should act, on the contrary very little has been said in the South African academic sector about this. If you also look at the figures I have given in previous emails about this, the ability of South African institutions to increase their space is far more limited than those who have no space and deal with a larger divide.</div><div><br></div><div>But again I say, we cannot explore third options or anything until process has been followed and this process has gone through last call where it will be accepted or rejected. The policy process is clear, but for some reason we seem to be diverging from it. Let us open last call, let us look at what comes back during last call in conjunction with what was said and done at the face to face meeting, and then let the co-chairs perform their function unimpeded and make a call on this policy, as per the process that was defined and has functioned since the inception of AfriNIC. To deviate from that process now would be to open a massive can of worms.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Badru Ntege <<a href="mailto:ntegeb@one2net.co.ug">ntegeb@one2net.co.ug</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday 25 June 2013 12:15 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:alston.networks@gmail.com">alston.networks@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> Adiel Akplogan <<a href="mailto:adiel@afrinic.net">adiel@afrinic.net</a>>, Bope Domilongo Christian <<a href="mailto:christianbope@gmail.com">christianbope@gmail.com</a>>, Alan Barrett <<a href="mailto:apb@cequrux.com">apb@cequrux.com</a>>, <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [AFRINIC-rpd] PDP discussions<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Andrew</div><div><br></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><div>Currently South African institutions with their legacy space are utilising more than 10 times the space than their nigerian counterparts. The student base at HEI's in the respective countries seems to be pretty similar from published statistics, this policy will address that imbalance by providing access to space those those institutions in Nigeria. It is also very telling that there are single institutions in South Africa that have more IP address space than the entire academic sector in Ghana, Egypt and Congo DR combined!!! This is the <span style="font-weight: bold; ">VERY</span> reason this policy needs to pass, because it will make it so much easier for these institutions to get space and address the imbalance.</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The problem is some community members fear that those some universities whith high student numbers are going to use the new policy to increase the divide you are seeing. More reason for me to say that we need to explore a third alternative that alleviates the fears we are seeing.</div><div><br></div><div>Bn</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); "><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Adiel Akplogan <<a href="mailto:adiel@afrinic.net">adiel@afrinic.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday 24 June 2013 10:59 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Bope Domilongo Christian <<a href="mailto:christianbope@gmail.com">christianbope@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>>, Alan Barrett <<a href="mailto:apb@cequrux.com">apb@cequrux.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [AFRINIC-rpd] PDP discussions<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 2013-06-21, at 11:44 AM, Bope Domilongo Christian <<a href="mailto:christianbope@gmail.com">christianbope@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">I would like to request to Afrinic to provide the current IPV4 allow to all African Universities regionally.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>The information is temporarily available at (this is :</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://meeting.afrinic.net/www3-utils/hei-stats/hei.php">http://meeting.afrinic.net/www3-utils/hei-stats/hei.php</a></div><div><br></div><div>thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>- a.</div></div></div>_______________________________________________
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