<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Walubengo J <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">Bwana PS,<br><br>Glad you are hearing it from the source.</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br><br>The source??? Veri$ign (as a single private corporation) has FAR too much influence in Internet governance as far as i am concerned Good thing they have nothing to do with the root of IP addresses, that is the IANA.<br>
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� There is indeed a huge possibility (theory again?) of a black market for� IPv4 resources emerging as the depletion becomes a reality (over the next couple of months in developed economies).<br></td></tr></tbody></table>
</blockquote><div><br><br>The RIR communities have worked very hard to make them "white" or "gray" markets. <br></div><div><br><br>�</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font: inherit;" valign="top"><br>@McTim,<br><br>True, AfriNIC is constrained by its policies NOT to dish out their IPv4 resources to markets outside Africa - BUT there exists some huge "legacy" IPv4 space/resources in Africa which I think can easily find themselves in this black market (that Verisign is speculating on).<br>
</td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br><br clear="all">The only HUGE v4 legacy block that was allocated to an African org was returned (with many thanks) to AfriNIC a few years ago by TENET.<br><br>There are some Class B's held by African orgs, but these are middling size, and fairly few and far between.� I only know one legacy holder in Africa that is hoping to monetise his legacy blocks of IP resources.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there."� Jon Postel<br>