Walu, all true. Good thing we have recently come to an agreement under which no more than 10% of an allocation an be used outside this regioon, and then only to provide connectivity back to africa! Rgds, mctim On 4/18/11, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
@McTim,
For a technical audience - very true what you say (splitting hair and agreeing that IPv4 resources in Asia are not yet over ;-).
But for a "policy-business-level" audience with planning time frames of 1-2yrs, the big picture is that Asia-Pacific has reached that critical point where new businesses wishing to connect to the internet are almost "forced" into getting IPv6 rather than IPv4 since IPv4 is officially a scarce resource in that region. Furthermore the remaining balance of 16million IP resources is a drop in the ocean considering the rate at which they are gobbling these addresses in Asia-Pacific.
But more important is the implications for Africa which is that other regions (Asia, Europe and America) will begin to be more interesting in our more "abundantly" available and comparatively "idle" IPv4 resources. Africa is therefore potentially exposed and the scramble for its relatively idle IPv4 resources through un-orthodox (black market) means is now more tempting than before.
walu.
--- On Sun, 4/17/11, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
From: McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Its official - Asia Pacific runs out of IPv4 resources. To: "Walubengo J" <jwalu@yahoo.com> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011, 8:54 PM
Walu, Headlines can be deceiving, APNIC is down the their last /8 (16 million addresses), so at this point slightly different rules adopted by the APNIC community kick in. They are not completely out, as the headline suggests.
-- Cheers,
McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
Apologies for cross-posting.
------ It’s official: Asia’s just run out of IPv4 Addresses Well, that was fast. The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has just released the last block of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses in its available pool. We knew this was coming when the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) announced in February that the last of the world’s remaining IPv4 blocks had been assigned to the Regional Internet Registries (RIR). What we didn’t know was that APNIC would run out quickly. I, and most other people, thought that its supply of IPv4 addresses would last until at least early summer. We were wrong.
more @ http://tinyurl.com/3emsqf6
walu. --- On Sat, 4/16/11, Alice Munyua <alice@apc.org> wrote:
From: Alice Munyua <alice@apc.org> Subject: [kictanet] Fwd: ICT4D Masters Bursary from University of Manchester
To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 8:50 PM
The University of Manchester's one-year MSc ICTs for Development degree aims to create "ICT4D champions" who combine technical competencies in information systems and project management with an understanding of development context and practice: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses/06237/?code=06237&pg=2
The 2011 Development Leaders Bursary - worth £6,150 - is available for developing country applicants to the MSc ICT4D programme, with a May 27th deadline. Application and eligibility details can be found at: http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/postgraduate/taught/funding/
This page also contains details on other funding sources and on part-time employment opportunities while studying in Manchester.
Richard Heeks Director Centre for Development Informatics University of Manchester, UK http://www.manchester.ac.uk/cdi
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