<html><body><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hendrik,</div><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In case you havent seen it, I share again my publication on this matter of countries usage per capita. <a href="https://www.digitaleconomy.ke/post/ipv4-address-allocation-in-africa-are-you-above-or-below-the-ip-address-poverty-line" data-outlook-id="8af5b967-d153-4399-a404-de3fd067fa65">https://www.digitaleconomy.ke/post/ipv4-address-allocation-in-africa-are-you-above-or-below-the-ip-address-poverty-line</a></div><div id="ms-outlook-mobile-signature" dir="ltr"><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="direction: ltr;"><br></div></div><div id="mail-editor-reference-message-container"><div style="padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) currentcolor currentcolor;"><div class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message skipProofing" style="text-align: left; font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>From: </b>Hendrik Visage via RPD <rpd@afrinic.net><br><b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 14 July 2026 at 11:10<br><b>To: </b>jordi.palet@consulintel.es <jordi.palet@consulintel.es>; rpd@afrinic.net <rpd@afrinic.net><br><b>Subject: </b>[rpd] Confirmation of the 3mil recovered space? Re: Promoting IPv6 adoption<br><br></div></div><p class="markdown" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">On 28 May 2026, at 17:27, jordi.palet--- via RPD wrote:</span></p><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(119, 119, 119);"><p class="plaintext" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(119, 119, 119);">Note that Afrinic recovered 3.000.000 of address,</span></p></blockquote><p class="markdown" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Has this been “published” and are public knowledge? When are those expected to become “active” and distributable?</span></p><p class="markdown" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Seems that places like </span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; color: rgb(57, 131, 196);"><a href="https://ipv6.he.net/statistics/" data-outlook-id="96000d0e-846e-46d0-8e48-429630dbf6b7" style="color: rgb(57, 131, 196); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://ipv6.he.net/statistics/</a></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"> still only shows 1mil (~4000 x /24s, or 1000x /22s), ~75 /22 per African Country left.</span></p><p class="markdown" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">In the “bigger” IPv4 vs IPv6 allocation scheme, these are the numbers to consider and debate/work on: How are we going to “evenly and equitably” distribute those IP blocks across the Africa countries?</span></p><p class="markdown" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Perhaps the questions might need to be asked: Instead of adding IPv6 targets, what about allocate the remainder to the ~50 African Countries, based on some inverse of historical allocation based scheme? ie. if country X has eg. 10x /24 IPv4 blocks per million inhabitants, and ,<br>
Country Y only has 2x /24 per million users, how would we reserve /24 blocks for those two countries? 1x for Country X and 5x for Country Y ? or just say 75x /24s per country?</span></p><p class="markdown" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">The next question that I believe is the elephant in the room: Are we trying to assist/reserve resources to get internet rolled out to under served areas and countries, or still playing the Voldemort game of chess on a checkers board by seeing “Intellectual Property”/“Commodity Value” of IPv4s?</span></p><p class="markdown" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">If we are playing the latter, then I’d say: Put ALL the IPv4s (as /24s :)=) ) on AUCTION - caveat: The price you bid is the price you’ll pay per year for the lifetime you have that resource allocated to you, even if newer price “drops” gets implemented on other resources…</span></p><p class="markdown" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">If we are looking at reserving for future country roll outs, then we should rather enter a hard land phase and say: This is the resource allocation per country - period, and if a country’s allocation runs out, that was it, sorry, no more for you country (and than Voldemort can be contacted) - I am staying a a country that the above allocation (or even the 75x /22s) will run out the fastest, and will complain the loudest.</span></p><p class="markdown" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">See IPv6 roll out will <i>have</i> to be a financial decision, as many others (Like Jaco Kroon - that feels the same like me about the needs and benefits os IPv6 roll out, but are experiencing the client/customer push backs) have stated that AfriNIC as such can’t “legislate” IPv6 (we can only lobby Countries to consider that) and even though I agree with the idea of forcing IPv6 usage before giving out IPv4s, I have to admit: AfriNIC can’t really police that as a policy.</span></p><hr style="background-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); height: 1px;"><p class="markdown" style="direction: ltr;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Hendrik Visage<br>
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