<div dir="auto"><div>And to add on Jordi point, we also know that have atleast /24 at bare minimum or a /22 can come in handly during IPv6 transition especially when the need for native v6 on users side requires an NAT64 and DNS64 boxes along them path especially the Gateways facing the legacy Internet.</div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Cheers,</div><div><b>.</b><b>/noah</b></div><div><b><br></b></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 14 Oct 2025, 12:15 pm jordi.palet--- via RPD, <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">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.<div><br id="m_-1249184154918125225lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><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><br><div><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><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><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Owen</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><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><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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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 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)</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>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
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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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