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I think its less rent-seeking and more colonialism; trying to extract African ipv4 resources to better paying foreign clients. Afrinic was allocated those addre
by zokier 3y ago
I think its less rent-seeking and more colonialism; trying to extract African ipv4 resources to better paying foreign clients. Afrinic was allocated those addresses in some modicum of fairness even if Africas internet infrastructure is not yet in state to fully utilize them, and now this NRS seeks to undo that. This is problematic because if the addresses are strip-mined from Africa it makes developing that internet infrastructure there even more difficult.
- gbil 3y agoThis. NRS seems to be stepping on some regional situation in order to get the big profit with whatever consequences this might have for the development of the region. At the same time I doubt they can go the same way in other regions, like in Asia with APNIC