<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 11:57 AM Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On Jun 25, 2021, at 23:29 , Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" target="_blank">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:<br><br>
> My question to AFRINIC, do your resource members justification for IPv4 needs, include that of running IPv4 Leasing? <br>
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Virtually every LIR leases addresses in one form or another. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I do not know of any LIR that leases addresses. But I know of LIR's across this continent who provide services such as <b>Direct Internet Access, MPLS services, Transit Services, Hosting Services, DNS services </b>and in order for the LIR to deliver the service to a wide range of downstream customers in AFRICA, they assign an IPv4 address to enable communication via Open Systems Network Protocols..... AFRINIC Bylaws section 3.4 subsection (i).</div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 5px;color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:14px">3.4) The Company shall have, both within and outside the Republic of Mauritius, full capacity to carry and/or undertake any business or activity, including but not limited to the following objects:</p><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:14px;list-style-type:lower-roman"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">to provide the service of allocating and registering Internet resources for the purposes of enabling communications via open system network protocols and to assist in the development and growth of the Internet in the African region;</li></ol></div><div>And Another reading for your Owen... please refer to the link below...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.afrinic.net/community/783-isplir-guidelines">https://www.afrinic.net/community/783-isplir-guidelines</a></div><div><br></div><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Regarding the “cost” of IP addresses, AFRINIC informs the community that IP addresses are nobody’s property and cannot be sold as a commodity. We however do understand that some ISPs may charge some fee to offset any administrative overhead incurred as a result of assigning and managing IP addresses for their customers. We recommend that any such charges should be reasonable in comparison with the membership fees charged by AFRINIC. </li></ul><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> Does AFRINIC have IPv4 brokers as resource members?<br>
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Are you saying that an LIR who is also a broker is not entitled to membership for some reason? <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes I am saying exactly that.... and again I will ask.</div><div><br></div><div>Do we have IPv4 brokers purporting to be an LIR (through membership) so that they go about trading allocated IPv4 addresses for 30USD? Was this the Intention of those integers? to be traded as a commodity/product? Because if that is the case, then how about all LIR just stop building Internet infrastructure and we go about getting say 6 million IPv4 addresses from an RIR and slap 30USD and profit 1.8 billion on each address.</div><div> <br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> Because it seems to me that folk out here are arguing that IPv4 integers themselves are meant to be some product sold at 30USD.<br>
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Whether you like it or not, whether I like it or not (and I’m not overly fond of it), the reality is that IP address registrations (not the<br>
addresses themselves, actually) are being bought and sold for ~30USD each every day all over the world. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>The AFRINIC CPM in section 5.7 only refers to "IPv4 Resources transfer within the AFRINIC Region". </div><div><br></div><div>There is no price tag and as such, I am not aware of the 30USD price in our AFRINIC region.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> My understanding was that the need for IPv4 was for the intergers to be used by the requester to number infrastructure for their networks/systems and their downstram customers/users so as to offer a wide range on services/products that Impact AFRICA's socio-economically and politically from, NREN, Higher Learning Institutions, Agriculture, ISP/Telecoms, Egovernment, FINTECH, SME's, Ecommerce (I know of unemployed youth leveraging the power of online platforms to forge a decent life and economically empower themselves through ecommorce, entertainment, influencers etc). The true digital transformation if you will.<br>
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> So I really need to understand what Paul is going on about to ascertain what I view as clear misunderstanding and misinterpretation of what AFRINIC is all about.<br>
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Here’s where you lose me. I have tremendous difficulty connecting your mostly rational questions/statements above with this. Please point to the part of the bylaws, </blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.afrinic.net/bylaws#b20-3">https://www.afrinic.net/bylaws#b20-3</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:14px">3.4) The Company shall have, both within and outside the Republic of Mauritius, full capacity to carry and/or undertake any business or activity, including but not limited to the following objects:</span></div><div><br></div><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:14px;list-style-type:lower-roman"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">to provide the service of allocating and registering Internet resources for the purposes of enabling communications via open system network protocols and to assist in the <b>development and growth of the Internet in the African region</b></li></ol><div><br></div><div>See the BOLD line that talks about development and growth of the Internet in the African region....<br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(117,117,117);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> iii. to <b>promote</b> responsible management of Internet resources throughout the African region, as well as the <b>responsible development and operation of Internet infrastructures; </b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>See the BOLD line that refers to the operation of Internet Infrastructure ..... <br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">RSA, or CPM that constrains number usage to things which impact AFRICA socio-economically or politically. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Is it safe to say that growth of Internet in the AFRICAN region and the operation of Internet Infrastructure in the AFRICAN region, has led to African Governments to launch eGovernment Internet based platforms that have led to better efficiency and management of public funds for instance through the Government Mobile Money Payment Systems.(political). Tourists today can apply for a travel VISA and pay online or via Mobile Money through an online Department of Immigration Platform thereby improving government efficiency.</div><div><br></div><div>Is it safe to say, because some of us took some BGP lessons from folks like APB, PFS, MT, NG, Pokui, through AFNOG, that we are leading a decent life and taking care of our families today, just like any other Internet or Systems, Software Engineers on this continent because of the Internet which has provided a lot of folks with employment.... (economics). </div><div><br></div><div>Is it safe to say that, folks out here, from artists posting creative content on platforms, to ecommerce merchants on for instance Instagram, to motorbike taxi apps (safeboda), to students studying online through edtech platforms, to subsistence farmers in rural Africa whose lives are being transformed through the smartphone, the Internet and mobile money, to research and education networks, to the fintech etc.... to cut the story short.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I don’t recall seeing either of those terms in any of the three documents. It’s certainly not contained in section 6 of the bylaws.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Folks, who got what I meant, understood but I guess I have made my point above.</div><div><br></div><div>You will never get it Owen.</div><div> </div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Noah</div></div></div>