<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div><br></div><div><br>On Jun 16, 2016, at 12:09, Badru Ntege <<a href="mailto:badru.ntege@nftconsult.com">badru.ntege@nftconsult.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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On 16 Jun 2016, at 7:59 pm, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>There’s simply no excuse today for building out an IPv4-only network.</div>
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<div>Equally no sane reason technical or business for building a purely v6 network in the Afrinic region. </div>
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<div>We need to take both macro and micro considerations. In most other regions the argument for v6 is very valid. </div>
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<div>If v4 is so "last century" how come some "insane" people have created a lucrative business out of it ??</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>There are many questionable lucrative businesses. I can make quite a good income selling poisonous plant matter wrapped in paper. Sure, my product will kill you slowly if you use it, but that hasn't prevented a multi-billion dollar industry from forming. </div><div><br></div><div>The mere existence of a lucrative industry does not prove the goodness of anything. </div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>
<div>This resource needs to stay in the region and be protected as we plan our V6 future. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I've never been advocating transferring AfriNIC resources out of region. I have stated that I don't feel an inbound-only asymmetrical policy is fair. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure what you mean by protected. How, exactly does one harm a pile of integers?</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div></body></html>