Hi sm,
The exhaustion matter may serve as a wake up call to >Africa if they
plan on significantly expanding their network.
No doubt there is a total concensus that IPv4 addresses is suffering from
global exhaustion. However, we also know that the IPv4 addresses IANA/ICANN
gave to Afrinic for the region are still avaible for a very long time, as
theiy are in less demand by and for the region. This is to say that may be
we should have two fears of 'exhaustions' when IPv4 is a concern... :).
Regards
Philemon
----- Original Message -----
From: "SM" <sm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "philemon" <philemon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: Africa and IPv6
Hi Philemon,
At 01:46 16-11-2007, philemon wrote:
Sorry for leading IPv4/IPv6 issues/debats back to the Africa context.
indeed, it is important for us who live in this area to undesrtand what is
our specific fate, what are our expectations in connection with the
'coming' IP protocol ( I mean IP v6).
One note a king of hypocrisy, even in Africa, about the extent of the
CURRENT importance or necessity of IPv6 in Africa. Hereupon, i want to
share with you my analyze.
The keen interest for IPv6 is very very weak throughout the continent
http://www.afrinic.net/statistics/ipv6_resources.htm
The cause of this fact are numerous:
- People are not aware on additional benefits IPv6 should bring in their
life; thereby no thing is motivating them sustain to dynamic towars IPv6.
The main cause is the fact that there is no active e-strategy program in
the different governement political/policy agenda.
Connectivity is not high on the agenda as Africa faces more pressing
problems.
- Many organisations including afrinic try to initiate some capacity
building programs upon IPv6 for the attention of mainly some technical
bodies (ISPs...). Since then, not sure that things are going ahead at the
exepected speed. We can therefore wonder: Was it strategic to beging the
consciousness-raising compaign focusing on those specific bodies? If so
why things are not moving upon in Africa?
As Africa looks up North, they don't see significant deployment of IPv6.
The exhaustion matter may serve as a wake up call to Africa if they plan
on significantly expanding their network.
Regards,
-sm
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