<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I guess that entirely depends on the policies they set for their ISPs and the extent to which they provide IPv4AAS gateways to get to their IPv6 infrastructure.<div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 14, 2025, at 02:55, <ben.roberts@afrinic.net> <ben.roberts@afrinic.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Owen,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Will that not exclude many of their their citizens from accessing digital services?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(225, 225, 225) currentcolor currentcolor; border-image: none; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>14 October 2025 11:44<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Noah <noah@neo.co.tz><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ben Roberts AfriNIC <ben.roberts@afrinic.net>; Andrew Alston <aa@alstonnetworks.net>; RPD <rpd@afrinic.net><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [rpd] Questions about IP Allocation rate<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Or better yet, not reserving IPv4 could spur those governments to deploy their govnets on IPv6 from the beginning with a clean greenfield design leapfrogging past the legacy baggage inherent in any IPv4 based solution. <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Owen<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><br><br><o:p></o:p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">On Oct 13, 2025, at 12:26, Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" type="cite"><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"></span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Ben <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">There is critical structural challenge in the continents digital landscape and you more than anyone knows this very well that we also suffer from uneven maturity of Digital Public Infrastructure and Government Networks (GovNet), which directly impacts the equitable deployment of essential digital services across majority of countries across our continent.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Look we are talking about numbering infrastructure that would support services like e-government, digital IDs, and public/private data exchanges, while aligning with AFRINIC's exhaustion-phase policies.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">We can not shy away from these reality or pretend that there is lack of foresight from actors at Afrinic and the community at large.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Its a known fact that many of our African governments lack operational GovNets and strategic reservations of IPv4 address space from AFRINIC could serve as a targeted incentive to bridge these gaps. <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>./noah</b><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">On Mon, 13 Oct 2025, 8:34<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>pm Ben Roberts - AfriNIC, <<a href="mailto:ben.roberts@afrinic.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">ben.roberts@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: none; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0cm;" type="cite"><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">I think The DPI systems are normally run by state owned digital agency entities which are already mostly LIRs having some space. It is not quite as you describe being state owned LIRs that have sovereign owned IPs that are independent of LIRs..<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><br><br><o:p></o:p></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">On 13 Oct 2025, at 20:01, Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" type="cite"><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"></span><o:p></o:p></div><div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">54 African States are taking public services online.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Digital Public infrastructure (DPI) is nolonger an idea. Its a real thing. DPI is critical. The private sector will tap into that infrastructure. Its here now.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Each of the 54 African states need address space indepedent of LIR space in each sovereign state.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">These are not ideas that actors in the private sector care about or think about. <o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><b>./noah</b><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">On Mon, 13 Oct 2025, 5:52<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span>pm Andrew Alston, <<a href="mailto:aa@alstonnetworks.net" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">aa@alstonnetworks.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div></div><blockquote style="border-width: medium medium medium 1pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: none; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0cm;" type="cite"><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">I was wondering if there were updated statistics for the amount of space allocated in the last 3 years. In addition to this information regarding exactly how much free space is still available in the IPv4 unallocated pool (excluding reservations)<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">I ask this because depending on the allocation rate - we may wish to consider revising the soft-landing policy that currently reserves a /12 worth of ipv4 space for "future uses, as yet unforeseen".<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">I point out that the soft landing policy was ratified in 2011, and if we still, after 14 years, have not been able to articulate a clear reason for such a large reservation, I think it's time we look at most, if not all, of that /12 back into the main unallocated pool that can be allocated for African resource holders that actually need it.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Amongst other reasons, sitting with unallocated, unannounced, reserved space like this leaves the space vulnerable to hijacking and malicious use or even potential theft.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Thanks<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Andrew<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">_______________________________________________<br>RPD mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd</a><o:p></o:p></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">_______________________________________________<br>RPD mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd</a><o:p></o:p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">_______________________________________________<br>RPD mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd</a></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>