[afnog] Fwd: [Fwd: [governance] Re: Request for input: The Working Group on Internet Governance]

[Brian Longwe]

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> From: Michuki Mwangi <michuki at kenic.or.ke>
> Date: November 17, 2004 4:23:38 PM
> To: "KIPlist" <kiplist-cl at lyris.idrc.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: [governance] Re: Request for input: The Working 
> Group on Internet Governance]
> Reply-To: "KIPlist" <kiplist-cl at lyris.idrc.ca>
>
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 15:29, Emmanuel Njenga wrote:
>
>> Do not sign the NRO text. Not only it is false (read the ITU proposal
>> to see that they do *not* ask for a *complete* control of IP
>> allocation, quite the contrary), but it is also a distraction from the
>> real issues of IP allocation (the fact that Afrinic policies have to
>> be blessed by a northern consortium of network operators, the RIRs, or
>> by a californian corporation, ICANN, the fact that Ford owns a
>> complete /8 that is not even routed, the fact that africans cannot get
>> enough IP addresses because of earlier wasting by the people in the
>> rich countries, etc).
>>
> I tend to disagree with the last statement here. We are NOT short of IP
> address space on IPv4 and the latest research reports shows that the
> current IPV4 address space, under the management of RIR's will last 
> well
> past the year 2040.
>
> Regardless of the thought, IPv4 could not scale up to the growth of
> Internet hosts by design. The space will be depleted in the long run 
> and
> having noted that, work on IPv6 was started almost a decade ago which 
> is
> operational today to supplement IPv4.
>
> It maybe worth noting that initially when the addresses were being
> assigned to FORD alike, routing was class-full (wasteful) and to
> allocate large blocks of IP addresses meant allocating /8.
>
> While this has been resolved by the introduction of classless routing
> (CIDR) the RIR's in this regions have been involved in recovering the
> larger chunks allocated to organizations. It would be nice to see
> reference made where such large blocks have been returned to the IANA.
>
>
>
> -- 
> Michuki Mwangi
> KENIC.
>
>
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> Submitted by: Michuki Mwangi <michuki at kenic.or.ke> 2004-11-17 08:21:13 
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