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

[Adiel A. AKPLOGAN]

>>>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,

More to Michuki's response on address shortage which I share too, let me
also add that  AfriNIC policies do not have to be blessed by any RIR
or ICANN!

AfriNIC is an independent entity self-governed by its members (LIR/ISPs).
AfriNIC has developed its own policy development process which has been
adopted by its members and used during its first public policy meeting
held in Dakar (May 2004).

http://www.afrinic.net/policies/afpol-pdp200401-001.htm

http://www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic1/dakar24052004-report.htm

and the documents page:

http://www.afrinic.net/documents.htm

- a.

>>>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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