> On Jul 26, 2021, at 04:01 , Noah <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, 19:32 Leo S, <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> The current situation poses risks to users who rent their IP addresses. I
> think the problem itself is AFRINIC's own problem. Who allocated 7 million
> addresses to them? As far as I know, even providers like OVH do not have 7
> million IP addresses. And a paper company can get 7 million IP addresses.
>
>
> This part of the world, we call them brief case companies.
>
> So while checking some statistics with a good friend over the weekend, we
> just noted that actually Cloud Innovation has more IPv4 addresses than East
> African countries of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and I won't even bother posting
> for Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan because its sad.
It also serves more end users than the population of all of those countries
combined. What is your point?
> If anyone cares, download the delegated file and run below command.
>
> Kenya as a country with all its AFRINIC resource members has a total of
> 6099456 IPv4 addresses. That is about 6 Million only.
>
> $ awk -F '|' '$2=="KE" && $3=="ipv4" {sum+=$5} END {print sum}'
> delegated-afrinic-extended-20210723
> 6099456
>
> Tanzania as a country with all its AFRINIC resource members has a total of
> 1037568 IPv4 addresses. That is about 1 Million only.
>
> $ awk -F '|' '$2=="TZ" && $3=="ipv4" {sum+=$5} END {print sum}'
> delegated-afrinic-extended-20210723
> 1037568
>
> Uganda as a country with all its AFRINIC resource members has a total of
> 1410048 IPv4 addresses. That is 1.4 Million only.
>
> $ awk -F '|' '$2=="UG" && $3=="ipv4" {sum+=$5} END {print sum}'
> delegated-afrinic-extended-20210723
> 1410048
>
> We also looked at the total number of IPv4 addresses allocated to Nigeria,
> one of the biggest AFRICAN economies and sadly they sit at a total of about
> 3Million IPv4 addresses.
>
> $ awk -F '|' '$2=="NG" && $3=="ipv4" {sum+=$5} END {print sum}'
> delegated-afrinic-extended-20210723
> 3126784
>
> I mean, Leo my brother, I totally resonate with your point of view on how the
> heck did bloody Cloud Innovation Ltd end up with 6 Million IPv4 addresses
> without any reasonable network on this continent.
By submitting appropriate applications and justified need for the addresses to
provide services to their customers within the rules and policies set by the
AFRINIC board, membership, and community.
> Owen always claims that it is what it is, but accountability can not be
> avoided and anyone who dodges attempts to be held accountable is a bad actor.
I don’t see anyone trying to avoid accountability here except for perhaps the
AFRINIC staff and the AFRINIC board. Cloud Innovation has been accountable for
their use of addresses and continues to be.
> Waiting to be sued.
I can’t see any reason to sue you, you’re just not that relevant.
Owen
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