<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Mwendwa Kivuva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com" target="_blank">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">Why would we want to speed up IPv4 uptake and work towards its exhausting? For some reason, as a continent, we lagged behind in utilization of v4. </span><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)" face="Roboto Slab, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">Unfortunately, we are also lagging behind in uptake of v6 even after excellent effort by Afrinic in capacity building and sensitization across the continent. </span></font><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>AfriNIC can only do much within its limits but another suggestion would be for regulatory authorities [ though mostly less technical ] in most countries taking upon themselves to drive the uptake of IPv6 either through national policy or something of a sort that eventually can encourage the players to do the needful.... </div><div><br></div><div>ISP communities and associations specific to each country could also play a centric role... [I dont know what happened to <b>AfriSPA</b> and its coordination of ISP's across the continent..could be funding, who know...]</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font face="Roboto Slab, Times New Roman, serif"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">I would rather we concentrate our effort in coming up with ways to be more v6 compliant, and let v4 takes its natural course. Of course given the low proliferation of networks in our region compared to other regions, we might need v4 pool to enable </span></font><font color="#ba0000"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">dual-stacking</span></font><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"> if </span></font><font color="#ba0000"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">necessary</span></font><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"> for network expansions and accommodate new players.</span></font></font><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Various vendor's [ code ] like Andrew Alston pointed out are still not supporting v6 fully in terms of some very important feature sets... Could be a strategic business move, could be an R&D delays, but there is still so many platforms out there not fully v6 compliant...</div><div><br></div><div>IMHO, to add on the above, The African Continent in general is still highly stratified in terms of Internet development...</div><div><br></div><div>Most of the PR out there about what is going on as far as Internet development is concerned in Africa is targeted toward a few Regions/Countries whose local Internet industry is booming for instance countries in Southern Africa, East Africa, Some west African Countries and of course Egypt all attributed to the various, sub-marine cable systems running along the coast of non-landlocked countries. </div><div><br></div><div>So considering the above fact...when you travel to some parts of In-land Sub-Sahara Africa and most part of Central Africa, you realise the narrative is different... Of course sea bound countries can't wait while the landlocked countries catch up in terms of expensive terrestrial backhauling and limited infrastructure and as such, you realise that even with IP Number resource allocation, some countries are taking the lion share...</div><div><br></div><div>This are fact that we over look every time we discuss issues regarding number resource distribution...</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps we need to rethink our approach going forward ...just my opinion...</div><div><br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap">From replies to Seun's well intended thread, you can clearly see it has been hijacked by vested interests who just see money and how to milk our dear Afrinic. </span><br style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.8);font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is still a puzzle to me... but something has to be done eventually...</div><div> </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#ba0000"></font></div><div><font color="#ba0000">Sincerely, <br style="font-family:'Roboto Slab','Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:19px;white-space:pre-wrap"></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">______________________<br>Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">Noah</div></div>