Hi <snip> Thinking loudly today Africa has four submarine projects being planned by a number of entities. Would it be worth proposing that these all be v6 platforms. Nepad (god help us) is proposing UHRUNET which not only will be submarine but also heavily Terrestrial across countries and interlinking into national backbones would pushing V6 down this avenue help ?? </snip>
These cable projects usually don't involve putting IP, regardless of version, on top of the transmission they sell. Their customers generally insist on that. Having been one of the early(ish) adoptors in ZA, I still see the same problems today that I saw when I started playing with V6 in 2002, and that is the lack of content. Africa as a whole traditionally (IMHO) hasn't always been the greatest content provider. Maybe the community should be targeting (and assisting) any large distributors of content we do have? "Help them to help us"? There's no real reason for them to bother with it at this stage, it won't have as much operational impact for them as it will for us (they'll just vote with their wallets if their current RIR runs out and can't get more anyway). Regards --Rob _______________________________________________ rpd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd
