<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 February 2016 at 05:32, Sunday Folayan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sfolayan@gmail.com" target="_blank">sfolayan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><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"><span class=""><br></span>
Boubakar and Omo,<br>
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Just in case you are not subscribed,<br>
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Would you be kind to contribute and enrich the debate?<br>
<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>SF,</div><div><br></div><div>We are subscribed and following closely but these are hectic times with the WACREN 2016 conference (open invitation to all) and the AfricaConnect2 project underway. I had planned to chip in at the weekend but now that you have called me out ....</div><div><div><br></div><div>Let me start by debunking some of the opinions that have been expressed about the apparent lack of support for the Academic IPv4 policy proposal. Claims that we didn't believe in its ultimate goal are quite far from the reality and not worth discussing. How could we not be? </div><div><br></div><div>African R&E networks however need to follow the innovative and transformative paths common with the development of our communities. Sensitising and educating our communities on the issues so they could respond directly has therefore been foremost on our agenda. We may not have succeeded as well as hoped but it is certainly not because we are unaware of these issues. The need to do away with NAT, securing IP resources for campus networks and NRENs as well as joining the debate on topical issues in the Afrinic community have been recurring topics in presentations at our meetings and conferences. There is plenty evidence of this and a search on the net with appropriate keywords should give anyone a good indication of our efforts.</div><div><br></div><div>Like most right-thinking folks, we know that IPv6 is the way to go and that our community can innovate in this regard and help speed things up but our reality is that we have a lot of universities who need IPv4 space even if only for transition mechanisms. Implementing the AfricaConnect project and supporting NRENs to connect education communities across Africa also has IPv4 requirements which makes these discussions and the views in the community very important to us. </div></div><div><br></div><div></div><div>We share some interests but have different needs from some of the folks debating transfer markets. Comparisons with environments with different dynamics is also not something we would engage in. What we would rather do is explore ways to limit the rate of exhaustion of Afrinic's IPv4 resources such that there is a fairer system where newcomers are not disadvantaged and our collective interest for the growth of the African Internet is preserved.</div><div><br></div><div>Bon weekend!<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">-- </span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Omo Oaiya</span><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font face="arial" size="2">CTO/Directeur Technique, WACREN </font><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Mobile: +234 808 888 1571 , +221 </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">784 305 224</span></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial" size="2">Skype: kodion</font><br style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><a href="http://www.wacren.net/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial;font-size:small" target="_blank">http://www.wacren.net</a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"> </span><div><br></div><div><br><a href="http://www.wacren.net/" target="_blank"></a> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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