[afnog] ip address and Lir

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri Jun 13 14:49:25 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:57:26PM -0000,
 Jean Robert HOUNTOMEY <hrobert at iservices.tg> wrote 
 a message of 25 lines which said:

> Local Telco who get IP [v4] block from Afrinic and who would like to
> resell at very high prices these blocks to their customers.

They do it for the good of mankind, to promote the use of IPv6 :-)

Giving the rapid depletion of IPv4 addresses, which will certainly
trigger even worse things ("scarcity brings out the worst in people")
you may find easier to deploy IPv6 than to make them change their
pricing policy...





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