This is a very crucial discussion and never late to have.

 

It would be good to write a couple of best practice deployment real African 
cases to show how other have done it. A couple of very good wasted examples 
that come to mind:

 

-          The Free university of South Africa is the ultimate and fantastic 
showcase deployed by Andrew Alston

-          The cross country ISP where Andrew works  

 

The Afrinic board members should take the initiative to collect these showcases 
that are done by fellow African experts Africa.

 

I will provide you then with EU and Asian examples. Deal :)

 

Cheers

Latif

 

From: Mwendwa Kivuva [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Freitag, 15. Januar 2016 17:06
To: IPv6 in Africa <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AfrIPv6-Discuss] IPv6 adoption per country

 

>
> 1. NAT and his twin PAT

How does NAT hinder v6 growth? I thought NAT has hindered exhaustion of v4, but 
not uptake of v6.

>
> 2. Legacy Telecom equipment run software which doesnt support  IPv6 and/or 
> its costly to upgrade
>

This is a very rare occurrence,  but it's true. While upgrading the vast 
University of Nairobi network to v6, I encountered about 8 routers out of about 
50 that were not v6 ready and the IOS could not be upgraded. There were so many 
software instances that needed updating but that was not an emergency since we 
were dual stacking

> 3. No business case after all 1. above is working so well and money has not 
> stopped flowing in.
>
Very true.
ICT admins and CIOs have let us down. There was a good campaign by AFRINIC on 
IPv6 for managers. Is there any monitoring and evaluation from AFRINIC to 
enable the community know how effective the training was? For

> 4. Some just dont have the budget for revamp after all the old kit is still 
> kicking as long as no one touches it.
>

You will be surprised, transition is very cheap. If you have the manpower, you 
are ready to roll.

> 5. Those with the most recent code are just plain lazy that when they deploy 
> IPv4 , they don't remember to also do the same for IPv6.
>

This are post implementation challenges. And they are good because we need to 
take one thing at a time.

> 6. The end users careless about the network and care more about the services 
> they consume. No pressure from them at all towards the ISP. Afterall, 
> WhatsApp, Facebook, Netflix is all working fine....

If I was an end user, honestly I would also not care. End user is only 
concerned when it's broken. 

>
> Noah
>
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