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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 5 Feb 2016, at 06:32, Sunday Folayan <<a href="mailto:sfolayan@gmail.com" class="">sfolayan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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Boubakar and Omo,<br class="">
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On 04/02/2016 07:50, Mukom Akong T. wrote:<br class="">
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> On 4 February 2016 at 02:04, Mwendwa Kivuva
<<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Kivuva@transworldafrica.com">Kivuva@transworldafrica.com</a>
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> On 03/02/2016, Owen DeLong <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:owen@delong.com"><mailto:owen@delong.com></a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> ><br class="">
> > While I did not support the educational policy
because I did not believe it<br class="">
> > appropriate to give special privileges to
educational institutions to the<br class="">
> > detriment of other classes of community members, I
would support a policy<br class="">
> > that generally allowed for a reasonable estimation
of concurrent wifi users<br class="">
> > based on quantified total user base.<br class="">
> ><br class="">
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> We are a unique market and probably it would have made
sense to pass<br class="">
> the policy give preference to Universities,...<br class="">
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> 'Unique' in what way? Uniqueness (even when undefined) should
not surpass a policy requirement: Needs-based assignment. <br class="">
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> There were few network engineers who run university networks
stood up to support the proposal - that might have been indicative
of something. <br class="">
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> Personally, I thought the ratio of 1:5 was excessive GIVEN
the paucity of space available. In the world of abundance that is
IPv6 --- I don't care what ratio is used.<br class="">
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> If we really wanted to get to something sensible, I'd measure
concurrent users over say 1 month and a reasonable value would be
the mean of concurrent users + 3 standard deviations. (assuming
statistical normality)<br class="">
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> <br class="">
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> because as it stands, many<br class="">
> Universities in the continent will remain with NAT post
v4 exhaustion.<br class="">
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> Is there a list of universities in Africa with those that
have their own space or not? Would anyone from AFREN be able to
provide such information?<br class="">
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> <br class="">
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> Since Universities are not in the business of always
scaling and<br class="">
> getting to new territories as LIRs are, they are just
comfortable with<br class="">
> NAT, to the detriment of growth of proper IP networks.<br class="">
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> I'd argue the reverse: Universities as citadels of knowledge
are in a position to try out lots more new technologies before
ISPs. <br class="">
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> -- <br class="">
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> Mukom Akong T.<br class="">
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