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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/Aug/16 13:41, John Hay wrote:<br>
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<div>Should it be about the company or what they want to do
with it? Is a big allocation because you want to connect a
lot of users worse than a small allocation connecting a
few users? It does not seem fair either.<br>
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I doubt that an ISP applying for IPv4 space from AFRINIC intends to
sit on it and watch it rot.<br>
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If the ISP is going to use the IPv4 space to connect customers, who
cares whether it's a big ISP or a small one?<br>
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If the ISP sits on the IPv4 space and goes out of business because
they could not earn revenue from paying customers, market forces
will see to it that the space either goes back to AFRINIC, or ends
up in the hands of another ISP that is ready to use it to connect
paying customers.<br>
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The bottom line is advancing connectivity in Africa. Not sure why we
are getting caught up in the minutiae of other people's
organizations we know nothing about.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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