[afnog] [rpd] Re: IPv4 Allocations by Length Statistics for 2014

Adam Nelson adam at varud.com
Thu Nov 6 12:04:44 UTC 2014


I've never been to Nigeria but SA is a highly developed country with
nuclear power plants, dozens of world class airports, dual carriageways,
etc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

I would say, presuming those numbers are even correct, that it's simply
Internet maturity reflecting human development generally.  Maybe the better
comparison would be Kenya and Nigeria or Angola and Nigeria.

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On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> @Adam,
>
> And perhaps Dyncorp (or similar research institution) would be able to
> tell us why Nigeria (largest economy in Africa) is enjoying, without
> complaining only 3% total share of the IPv4 resources in Africa while SA,
> the second largest economy is doing 38%.
>
> Perhaps they are doing too much NATting or worse still "re-using" IP nos?
> Maybe Sunday would know the reasons :-).
>
> walu.
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 11/6/14, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: [rpd] Re: [afnog] IPv4 Allocations by Length Statistics for 2014
>  To: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>
>  Cc: "rpd List" <rpd at afrinic.net>, "afnog" <afnog at afnog.org>
>  Date: Thursday, November 6, 2014, 11:39 AM
>
>  Even if
>  operators were inclined to give the data, I doubt you'd
>  get much participation since it's all hassle and no
>  gain.
>  The only way to get
>  the data is good old fashioned research - which Afrinic is
>  probably not in a position to do internally (for various
>  reasons including the NDA).  I bet Dyncorp (the link I sent
>  before) has quite a bit of the information you're
>  looking for - but it won't be cheap.
>  -Adam
>  --Kili - Cloud for
>  Africa: kili.io
>  Musings: twitter.com/varudMore Musings: varud.comAbout Adam:
> www.linkedin.com/in/adamcnelson
>
>  On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at
>  11:34 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>
>  wrote:
>  On
>  Thursday, November 06, 2014 10:07:09 AM Kofi ANSA AKUFO
>
>  wrote:
>
>
>
>  > Could we get more information from the data as to
>  what
>
>  > technology and applications are consuming the
>  resources?
>
>
>
>  I'm not sure operators would be willing to openly
>  share that
>
>  data, Kofi.
>
>
>
>  In fact, any such discussions between operators and
>  AFRINIC
>
>  are under NDA.
>
>
>
>  Mark.
>
>
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