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Speaking from a nation currently enduring military conflict and the near-total destruction of its infrastructure. At this moment—and for the foreseeable future—progress is impossible. We respectfully ask that our share of the resources be reserved until we
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 14, 2025 8:33:55 PM<br>
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That said, relying on African governments may be reasonable for countries with stable economic and political conditions. However, given the conflicts and instability present in several regions across the continent, it's wise to preserve sufficient resources
for future generations, who may otherwise face significant scarcity.</div>
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<div dir="auto">A classic example in contemporary african history is states that suffered prolonged civil wars such as Somalia, South Sudan, Burundi, Sierra Leon to name but a few whose pacification is as recent as a decade ago with some sense of peace & political
stability starting to emerge.</div>
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On a related note, the reserved IP blocks come at no cost. They don’t require active maintenance or storage infrastructure, just basic protection against misuse or hijacking. These reserves can be kept indefinitely. And once IPv6 becomes the dominant protocol,
we can simply "let them go!". But for now, we need to keep our resources.</div>
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<div dir="auto">100% and this is the sorf of foresight that most actors both within Afrinic and the internet community does not seem to grasp. </div>
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<div dir="auto">If we can reserve space for critical Infra such as IXP's then policy development should always be guided by a considerable number of socio-economic factors.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Mwalimu Nyerere once stated to the nation that, look, those minerals that we cant exploit today, can always be exploited later in futute when posterity is ready and knowledgable enough to make good sense of them after all, they dont expire.
Its now 5 decades later and with education, information and exposure, the people are now able to use the raw-material and build industry locally.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Foresight my people, foresight. We are internet engineers yes but we must think beyond just engineering.</div>
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<div>Now a different history is if any ISP in 1-2 years from now, has not *at least* started their deployment plans. In such a situation, I think it is a clear matter of governments, in their duty to protect citizens, taking strong actions against any service
provider or industry not doing so. Of course that means the government networks itself need to use IPv6: they need to set the example, otherwise you can’t enforce it.</div>
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<div>Today deploying a *new* network using 464XLAT is even cheaper and easier than doing so with IPv4 or dual-stack. So this must be clearly enforced to obtain new licenses, as there is no excuse. This is valid for either cellular networks, broadband networks
or even for enterprise networks using IPv6-mostly.</div>
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<div>I fully understand that is not the same for an existing network, that’s why they should have some more time, but at least have *clearly structured* plans, not just “yes we are thinking on that” ...<br>
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<div dir="ltr">If it isn’t already deployed, I question this at this point. How long should the rest of the internet subsidize failure to deploy? Personally, I think we are past that point. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Agree, however, we know very well that a small IPv4 pool (may be a /24 for each BGP PoP), is needed for interconnection with IPv4 Internet, as there may be still some old apps that require it.
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<div>El 14 oct 2025, a las 10:46, Owen DeLong via RPD <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> escribió:</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Yes, exactly. The continuing presence of an IPv4 free pool at AFRINIC and the efforts to keep it from running out are actually counterproductive to progress in the African digital economy. </div>
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<blockquote type="cite">On Oct 14, 2025, at 01:22, Hendrik Visage <<a href="mailto:hvisage@hevis.co.za" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">hvisage@hevis.co.za</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div> Shouldn’t we rather consider pushing IPv6 deployment assistance across Africa? ie. let the rest of the IPv4 go ASAP without much resistance instead of making this a begging/pleading/fighting game?</div>
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<div>ARIN (North America) & RIPE (Europe) serviced areas are way ahead of IPv6 roll outs, ‘cause they don’t have any left, and looking at AfriNIC services countries, we are still have an abundance of IPv4, so IPv6 percentage roll outs are very low, and rathe
we should be pushing to mirror the IPv6 percentage rollout and usage rather than fighting over the few remaining IPv4s if we want to grow digital rollouts.</div>
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<div>Perhaps even moving to a state of: “You can have IPv6, once you’ve proven a complete IPv6 rollout can you get anymore IPv4"</div>
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<div>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".</div>
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<div>Amongst other reasons, sitting with unallocated, unannounced, reserved space like this leaves the space vulnerable to hijacking and malicious use or even potential theft.</div>
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