An update on the AfriNIC situation

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Mon Aug 30 15:27:14 UTC 2021


On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:38:01PM +0200,
 Mark Tinka <mark at tinka.africa> wrote 
 a message of 13 lines which said:

> Oddly, I recommended to a friend (one who promotes competitors do the wrong
> thing, hehe) that sending CI routes to /dev/null would be ideal.

Trollish idea of the day: since it is an IPv4-specific problem, stop
routing IPv4 completely. Since IPv6 addresses are not scarce and have
no monetary value, the problems of hoarders/thieves would disappear
(and it would make life simpler for network professionals).


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