[address-policy-wg] IPv4 policy document and request forms updated
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Jeff Williams
jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com
Sat Oct 30 07:12:43 CEST 2004
Ernest and all, Yes I read this some time ago. It reads with some very strong politically motivated overtones to me... Ernest Byaruhanga wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Jeff Williams wrote: > > > Thank you Jon for your explanation. I now have the > > understanding I thought I had but was taken back by ARIN having > > one allocation policy for minimal allocations and AFriNIC having > > another in that AFriNIC is in part somehow connected to both RIPE > > and ARIN, so than AFriNIC elected to go with a lower allocation. > > Still one has to wonder as to why AFriNIC went that way as it in > > some ways doesn't make good sense... Perhaps that was due to > > political pressure? > > There was no politics involved. The community requested for this at the > ISPA i-week meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa last year. Below is > partly the text that was in that proposal: > > The economies of Africa and those of other countries in the ARIN > region (United States and Canada) are not of the same scale. The > number of Internet users inside Africa is much fewer than in the > other countries in the ARIN region. Whereas it may be reasonable to > expect that the user numbers in North America support an ISP's > ability to meet the current ARIN IPv4 criteria, it is not reasonable > in Africa. Unable to meet the current criteria to obtain IPv4 address > space from ARIN, and unable to obtain adequate address space from > upstream providers; African ISPs must resort to solutions such as > NAT, or sometimes are simply not able to provide services to > customers due to the lack of IPv4 address space. Lack of adequate > IPv4 address space may be slowing down the growth and development of > the Internet in Africa. > > regards, > > Ernest. Regards, -- Jeffrey A. Williams Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 134k members/stakeholders strong!) "Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others" - Pierre Abelard "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. E-Mail jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com Registered Email addr with the USPS Contact Number: 214-244-4827
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