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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I guess it will be really easy to put “Africa First” when it comes to business, the day internet access is ‘truly’ deregulated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I sign the preference of being prudent and wise to exploit our resources and such markets to bridge the gaps.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Kofi ANSA AKUFO [mailto:kofi.ansa@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 27 October 2014 19:49<br>
<b>To:</b> Keshwarsingh Nadan<br>
<b>Cc:</b> rpd List; h.lu@anytimechinese.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [rpd] Afrinic policy proposal—Afrinic Service guild lines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Keshwarsingh<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 27 October 2014 18:31, Keshwarsingh Nadan <<a href="mailto:keshwarsingh.nadan@millenium.mu" target="_blank">keshwarsingh.nadan@millenium.mu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">A mobile telco operator in our region would never achieve such a usage due to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">a)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Bandwidth pricing over HSDPA/HSPA or whatever technology is crazy.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">b)</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Most of them still use carrier grade nat.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The company I worked for previously (ARIN region) would eat up a /13 quarterly, VPN services sold on the Asian
market. ARIN never cared about content beneficial to their region or whatsoever.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Exactly but we face different challenges in our region one of them being the level of ICT infrastucture development. Its stragtegically wrong to align or follow such policies.<br>
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It will be prudent and wise to exploit our resources and such markets to bridge the gaps - (build solid infrastrucutres in our region, create jobs etc).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I guess its difficult to put "Africa First" when it comes business right?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I believe same applies to our service region, unless of course a policy specifying ‘resources are evaluated based
on beneficial content to our region’ ?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Kofi
ANSA AKUFO [mailto:<a href="mailto:kofi.ansa@gmail.com" target="_blank">kofi.ansa@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 27 October 2014 15:34<br>
<b>To:</b> Keshwarsingh Nadan<br>
<b>Cc:</b> rpd List; <a href="mailto:h.lu@anytimechinese.com" target="_blank">h.lu@anytimechinese.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [rpd] Afrinic policy proposal—Afrinic Service guild lines</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Hi Keshwarsingh,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>On Oct 27, 2014 2:22 PM, "Keshwarsingh Nadan" <<a href="mailto:keshwarsingh.nadan@millenium.mu" target="_blank">keshwarsingh.nadan@millenium.mu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Exhausting a /12 within a year is nothing.. In other words, Lu’s business is flourishing.<br>
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><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>In deed "its nothing" - the last time I checked not even a mobile telco had achieved that in our region.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>We must be tapping ourselves on the shoulder then if this translates to content beneficial to our region.<br>
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> From: <a href="mailto:rpd-bounces@afrinic.net" target="_blank">rpd-bounces@afrinic.net</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:rpd-bounces@afrinic.net" target="_blank">rpd-bounces@afrinic.net</a>] On Behalf Of Kofi ANSA AKUFO<br>
> Sent: 27 October 2014 13:25<br>
> To: Lu<br>
> Cc: rpd<br>
> Subject: Re: [rpd] Afrinic policy proposal—Afrinic Service guild lines<br>
><br>
> <br>
><br>
> Hello Lu<br>
><br>
> <br>
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> On 27 October 2014 08:51, Lu <<a href="mailto:h.lu@anytimechinese.com" target="_blank">h.lu@anytimechinese.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi<br>
><br>
> W have been told our allocation is "under board review" for past 2 month, I wonder how's that to be possible if board ha nothing to do with this?<br>
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> <br>
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> Amazing you have exhausted the /12 IPv4 (over a million IPv4 addresses) Allocated to you within a year and requesting for more. What size are you requesting now?<br>
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>> > On 2014<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">年</span>10<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">月</span>27<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">日</span>, at
<span style="font-family:"MS Gothic"">上午</span>4:13, Bill Woodcock <<a href="mailto:woody@pch.net" target="_blank">woody@pch.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> ><br>
>> > On Oct 27, 2014, at 3:22 AM, David Conrad <<a href="mailto:drc@virtualized.org" target="_blank">drc@virtualized.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>> >>> 5.Unless otherwise appealed, Afrinic board should not be directly involved in IP allocation process.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Agreed, although I do not think the board should be involved in appeals.<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> It used to be that in at least two other RIRs that I'm familiar with (APNIC and ARIN), the board would _never_ be directly involved in the IP allocation process. The role of the boards of those two RIRs was to ensure the policy development process was
followed correctly and to be ultimately responsible for the operation of the organization. I don't know if that's still the case.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > That is the case. In ARIN, there is an explicit wall between the board and the resource allocation process, so that the board is never involved in specific resource requests, reviews, or fulfillment. I believe that to be the case in other RIRs as well.<br>
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