<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 August 2016 at 13:09, Mark Tinka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu" target="_blank">mark.tinka@seacom.mu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Unfortunately, I have not seen or heard of any initiatives from any
    of the African mobile operators on their implementation of IPv6 in
    their core backbones,</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>There are quite a few. I get about 3 - 5 mails with evidence per year of guys who run core networks that have done this. Unfortunately, it's often been an engineer high up the hierarchy and with enough passion for IPv6 that they could do it without a 'formal' process and approval. That's what tends to keep them silent and not talk about it.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> for their services or to consumer mobile
    devices. If things are, indeed, happening, please come out of the
    woodwork and make some noise. We are eager to listen and support.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I guess we'll have to re-design the AFRINIC IPv6 Program as well as other community initiatives to bring out these guys.</div><div> </div></div><br><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>Mukom Akong T.<br><br><span style="font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(51,51,51);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mukom" target="_blank">LinkedIn:Mukom</a> </span> |  twitter: @perfexcellent  <div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:17px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><form action="https://www.linkedin.com/profile/vanity-name-submit" name="UNIQUE_ID_SafeHtmlFilter_vanityUrlForm" method="POST" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit" target="_blank" onsubmit="try {return window.confirm("You are submitting information to an external page. \nAre you sure?");} catch (e) {return false;}"><ul style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;list-style:none;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit"></ul></form></div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>“When you work, you are the FLUTE through whose lungs the whispering of the hours turns to MUSIC" - Kahlil Gibran<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div></div></div>
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