> On Aug 22, 2021, at 10:59 , Noah <n...@neo.co.tz> wrote: > > > > On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, 20:28 Owen DeLong, <o...@delong.com > <mailto:o...@delong.com>> wrote: > Akamai has a lot of presence in Africa. > > They do not have a membership in AFRINIC. > > That is fine... > > > Hurricane Electric has significant presence in AFRICA and Latin America > > There are more for instance Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Cloudflare, > Netflix, LimeLight and other similar Internet services providers. > > Guess what, back at home in the ARIN service region, the above hyper scalers > and CDN have extensive Internet Infrastructure which is serving Americans and > Europeans before they venture and expand out to scale their local networks > into global infrastructure and tap into more markets in Africa and Latin > America etc. > > > To the best of my knowledge, they do not have any resources from LACNIC or > AFRINIC. > > That is perfectly fine. My employer has an extensive network in Europe to > connect us back to Africa where we extensively operate and yet we are not > RIPE resource members. > > Noah
OK, so you agree with me. That’s great. Let’s move on. Owen
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