Sorry to follow up on myself, but it seems that one figure I gave here regarding the value of the IPv4 space that was gifted to AFRINIC at its inception was off by roughly an order of magnitude. I said that at its inception, AFRINIC had been gifted with two /8 IPv4 blocks with a current open market value in excess of $250 million USD. Checking now, I see that the following blocks are all assigned to ORG-AFNC1-AFRINIC, which is AFRINIC itself: 41.0.0.0/8 45.192.0.0/12 45.208.0.0/13 45.216.0.0/14 45.220.0.0/15 45.222.0.0/16 102.0.0.0/8 105.0.0.0/8 154.0.0.0/8 196.0.0.0/7 Note: This isn't even counting certain other legacy blocks that AFRINIC also inherited, back in February of 2005, from other regions, specifically ARIN and RIPE. Anyway, the above blocks represent a total of 102,694,912 unique IPv4 addresses. Assuming a current average market value of $25 USD per address, that works out to a total value of some $2,567,372,800 USD, or in round numbers, $2.6 billion USD. Just wanted to correct the record. My apologies for my earlier error. Regards, rfg