Mich, interesting thoughts.
Question is why?
I think we're not hungry enough for change. If we were we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Truly hungry people change the world, apparently-hungry people talk about changing the world.
saidi
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Michuki Mwangi
<michuki.mwangi@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Saidi,
The writer has a very one sided view of the issue;
The bottom line, Africa has very slow growth when it comes to IPv4
address space consumption. For instance of all the address space
allocated to AfriNIC - only 32% has been issued out.
Africa consumes about 1/8 every 1.5 years compared to about 2/8's every
year in Asia.
The facts are;
1) IP addresses are not given out - they are requested for.
2) In Africa we prefer to NAT and use our upstreams IPv4 addresses and
not get our own. Each time we change providers we have to renumber our
networks to the new address blocks.
3) Its a high time we requested for Provider Independent space.
4) South Africa is one of the few countries that have been ahead of the
pack in applying for IPv4 space.
5) The writer has ignored the legacy issues behind the initial
allocations made before the Internet has any formal governance
structures in place. It would be good to appreciate the evolution and
whats been done thus far to address the legacy allocations.
6) AfriNIC is giving IPv6 space for free and its for each operator to go
and get the address space now and use this opportunity to gain
operational experience.
This article has too many assumptions and very little facts to support
it either.
Africa's late entrance and slow growth of the Internet space is the main
reasons why we have not fully taken up the IPv4 space.
Asia (mostly China) and Latin America (Latam) who came much later after
the Americas and Europe have caught on alot better than we have.
Question is why?
Cheers,
Mich