<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 8:48 PM, Owen DeLong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank">owen@delong.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
>> Your issues are based on presumption that AfriNIC is a shop in a free<br>
>> market where IP addresses are commodities on shelves ready for anyone<br>
>> that walks in to buy in whatever quantity and deplete at will - an<br>
>> extremely selfish principle to deploy during a period of scarcity of a<br>
>> public resource.<br><br>
My perspective is that addressed are community resources to be used to deploy internet services to end users.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> My belief is that addresses have no utility whatsoever sitting on a shelf in the registry if there is a legitimate need for them to be used by end users.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I say yes to this but with caution. Those end users are served by ISPs. Those ISPs are very many, competing for a tiny resource. Those end users also live in 54 African countries. You do NOT want to let one ISP in Nigeria use the remaining tiny resource to just serve Nigerian end users. There are others too that need a piece of that tiny resource. You unfortunately and regrettably keep ignoring this fact. </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> My belief is that it is a disservice to this community to protect a free pool from real end users with legitimate need</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is a greater disservice to this community to open a very scarce resource to abusive use by letting one or two businesses gainfully use most of that resource when there are thousand others that still need it.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> for the sake of enabling some fictitious entity to gain some advantage later over a clear and present entity attempting to deliver service today.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why do you call the new entrants 'fictitious'? Do you actually think we are stagnant in Africa and that there are no more new players to forecast for? Is the concept of forecasting in business practice perhaps inane to you?</div><div><br></div><div>You claim it is a lie to say your concerns have not been addressed. May be you are unhappy with the facts and nothing can be done about this unhappiness. </div><div><br></div><div>I hope you are not planning to join efforts with your convener who in a separate email has made it clear that if the policy does pass he will use the Mauritius government to force the AfriNIC Board to refuse it and use the same Board to apply different policies top-down while refusing to implement policies the community has passed - a particularly disturbing piece of information.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>