Hi all, I think the policy is okay except how the recovery of unused address space will be handled?
Regards On 2/13/07, Vincent Ngundi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All, Thanks for your comments Andrew. On Feb 12, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Andrew Alston wrote: > > C.) Demand for IPv6 PI Space. > > At the moment we cannot really evaluate this, as lets face it, there > isn't much demand for IPv6 at all yet. As the need for redundancy, > the > need for multi-homing, and the need for companies to be able to be > more > mobile in their provider choices increases, this demand could very > easily become apparent. At the moment due to the high costs of > telecoms > on the African continent, how many companies can even afford to be > multi-homed or deploy that level of redundancy? Perhaps as costs come > down, this would change? > > D.) The RIR Revenue stream > > First of all, it's my strong opinion that if an RIR has to resort to > denying a service to the public in order to grow its revenue, there > is a > much larger problem than the problem of if the service should or > shouldn't be provided. I believe that it is fundamentally flawed to > base the decision to allow or disallow P.I IPv6 space based on > revenue. > Are there not enough problems in the African Internet community with > regards insanely high costs, without attempting to find reasons to > force > ISP's who are already burdened with high costs to pay even more money? > Yes, I fully understand that an RIR must be financially viable, but I > really do not think that this decision should be based on the RIR's > economics. After all, an RIR is a non-profit entity, and while it has > running costs, there is a difference between growing revenue to stay > sustainable and defining policies based on generation of funds at the > expense of the community for which the organization was created to > serve. > It's worth noting that for organisations that qualify to receive an IPv6 allocation, the first years' fees is waived. See http:// www.afrinic.net/docs/billing/afcorp-fee200502.htm -v _______________________________________________ rpd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd
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