ipv4/25s and above

Fri Nov 18 23:20:25 UTC 2022

> On Nov 18, 2022, at 03:44, Joe Maimon <jmaimon at jmaimon.com> wrote:
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> Mark Tinka wrote:
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>> On 11/17/22 19:55, Joe Maimon wrote:
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>>> You could instead use a /31.
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>> We could, but many of our DIA customers have all manner of CPE's that may or may not support this. Having unique designs per customer does not scale well.
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> its almost 2023. /31 support is easily mandatory. You should make it mandatory.

Much of Africa in 2023 runs on what the US put into the resale market in the late 1990s, tragically.

> Its 2023, your folk should be able to handle addressing more advanced than from the 90s. And your betting the future on IPv6?

They don’t really have a lot of alternatives.

>> To be honest, we'll keep using IPv4 for as long as we have it, and for as long as we can get it from AFRINIC. But it's not where we are betting the farm - that is for IPv6.

And yet you wonder why I consider AFRINIC’s artificial extension of the free pool through draconian austerity measures to be a global problem?

> Its on Afrinic to try and preserve their pool if they wish to by doing things such as getting it across that progress in addressing efficiency is an important consideration in fulfilling requests for additional resources.

Instead of this, they’re mostly ignoring policy, implementing draconian restrictions on people getting space from the free pool, and buying into various forms of reality avoidance.

> But see the crux above. If your RiR isnt frowning on such behavior then its poor strategy to implement it.

So far, AFRINIC has given a complete pass to Tinka’s organization and their documented excessive unused address space despite policy that prohibits them from doing so. However, AFRINIC management and board seem to have extreme difficulty with reading their governing documents in anything resembling a logical interpretation.

Owen