Hi Graham,
At 11:37 14-05-2009, Graham Beneke wrote:
We set mandates on plenty of other things - like how much IPv4 space you
may get, what types of ASNs you may use and so forth.
This policy is for a softlanding - there must be a point at which we
make it clear to the LIRs that continuing with IPv4-only networks is not
viable. If we just continue to handout IPv4 prefixes then we will have a
very hard landing one day when AfriNIC just says "Sorry no more
addresses" and LIRs respond "Why? You gave us addresses last week"
If a LIR is not aware of IPv4 address exhaustion, then it is living
in a cocoon. Given the level of preparedness in the AfriNIC region,
I would imagine a hard landing. However, there are is a factor
(resource utilization) that might work in favor of the region. The
soft landing policy is to mitigate the issue of IPv4 address
exhaustion instead of solving it.
Regards,
-sm
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