[address-policy-wg] IPv4 policy document and request forms updated

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,

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