<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Borg le Chevalier<br>___________________________________<br>"Common sense is what tells us the world is flat" </div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 October 2014 00:28, Owen DeLong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank">owen@delong.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><br><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I can concretely demonstrate that the availability of IPv4 addressing can have an impact on business investment.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Impact, sure. but not determining factor in any significant investment that can be said to be "developing africa". It the arrogance of the statement I mention.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span>Actually, it could well be a determining factor.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>For mature market maybe, but for new market, no really.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>Nobody in their right mind is launching a new IPv4 ISP in Asia right now. The lack of available addressing makes such a venture foolhardy at best.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The service is Internet, not IPv4-based Internet. Any big investiment in Internet infrastructure in Africa will target non-consumption. Those people who has never have Internet - anything (IPv6, NAT) will be better and still make the investiment worth it. NOBODY invests invests in networking infrastrasture in large scale in Africa just because of availability of IPv4.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>Africa has more IPv4 space available than anywhere else in the world right now. That makes it more reasonable for new market entrants to invest in Africa,</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The opportunity for investment is because lots of africans are still offline, NOT because there is IPv4. And for those people offline, any Internet (IPv6, NAT) will be sufficient.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>What investor (except IPv4 brokers) bases an investment decision on a resource that is known to be not sustainable to get in the futur?</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div> but it also makes Africa a target for pulling resources out to exploit them in other regions.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>That the biggest concern and i think a legitime one for africans. Policy might just be an ineffective way - better have the resources being used by legitimate african interests (gouvenments, universities, etc)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>While I agree with Andrew to a large extent that African companies must be allowed to use AfriNIC space to compete globally,</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>me too agree with Andrew and you 100% on this.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div> I also believe that a lack of limitations on the exportation of address space by pseudo-African companies[1] and/or non-African companies[2] will lead to exploitation that does not particularly benefit Africa or Africans.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>++1 and that is the problem these proposal try to address (not sure how effective it would have be)</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div> I’m not sure where brokers came into this or what you mean by arrogant IT people who over-value IT in general and IPv4 in particular, so I’m not sure how to answer that. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Arrogance = attitude that get someone to say "I am a member of afrinic, investing an making africa a better place" --- </div><div>Arrogance = believe that in grande scheme of developmental challenges, Internet (particularly IPv4-based one) ranks in even the top 3 of priorities. </div><div><br></div><div>Don't get me wrong, IT is very important .... depending on existing infrastructure and context. It not a silver bullet to 'make africa a better place' </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">But believe me, coming from an environment where having address space is critical to the business, there is a correlation between investment and address space,
and it can be clearly demonstrated.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Correlation != Causation. I be happy to be show both. The attractiveness of IT infrastructure in Afrique is based more on business opportunity. link to a IPv4 resource that is quick running out is very shady at best. Or put different - will these investments stop if afrinic run out of ipv4? (we might look to see weather investments in infrastructure in india and Chine have stopped because of lack of ipv4.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span>Addresses are a critical component of internet services. Liquid is an ISP. If they can’t provide addresses for their infrastructure and their customers, they will not be able to sell services and thus will not have an ROI. Therefore, a lack of address availability will, in fact, prevent future investment. That’s causation, not merely correlation.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You forget</div><div><br></div><div>a) Addresses != IPv4 (thankfully Liquid also do v6)</div><div>b) Going with your model - that business strategy is going to be dead in 4 - 5 years as v6 run out.</div><div>c) In term of numbers, Liquid may not have more customers than the mobile operators in africa and somehow they still in business and thriving.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span class=""><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I do believe that we need to protect the African resources from being pillaged by non-African entities and IP Brokers. I will strongly support policy that
prevents African resources flowing off continent into the hands of those who have absolutely no link to Africa AND where there is no benefit (quantitative) to the continent. </span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>That seem to me to be a goal many people in the community share. but i wander , with such small IPv4 space compared to other part of world, why is afrinic consumption so small? </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span>There are a number of historic reasons relating to the following problem areas:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>1.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Difficulty qualifying for resources under ARIN policies of the past (pre-AfriNIC)</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>2.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Perception problems created by 1</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>3.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Cost and the perceived cost-savings of NAT (artificial, though they are)</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>4.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Perceived security/control/etc. advantages of NAT (also artificial)</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>5.<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>Limited understanding of the process of obtaining addresses and fee structures</div><div><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I just do not believe at this point we have a policy proposal that fulfills these
objectives. </span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></span>Rather than merely state that the current proposal doesn’t meet the objectives, perhaps it would be more useful if you could propose language or modifications that could be made to the current proposal in order to achieve what I think almost everyone agrees is the valid goal.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>that phrase was andrew, not me. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>but with your nice list of reasons - i think</div><div><br></div><div>- policy (one that establish and discourage abuse of afrinic resources for pseudo-african companies) is good start. </div><div>- problems (2,3,4,5) can be solve by education and communication and training</div><div>- standardize process so legitime companies can get address quicker and cheaper</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div><br></font></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>