© AfriNIC - 2005

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Overview

Presented at the Regional Workshop on African Research & Education Networking, Sept. 25-27 CERN, Geneva

Pierre Dandjinou Chairman Adiel A. Akplogan CEO

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Our mission

“To provide professional and efficient distribution of Internet number resources to the African Internet community, to support

Internet technology usage and development across the continent and strengthen self

Internet governance in Africa by encouraging a participative policy development.”

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Why AfriNIC?

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Issues

Lack of coordination on IP resources Management in Africa.

Inconsistency in addresses allocation policies.

Poor involvement of African stakeholders in IP addresses allocation system.

Policy inappropriate for African’s Internet environment.

Money is sent out of the continent

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The new map!

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Resulta common addresses allocation policy for Africa.

a common environment for discussions on IP resources Policy.

Application of the bottom-up process to allow participation from the local community.

Adoption of new policies more close to the continent realities.

Money is now retained in Africa to support training and other related projects.

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Key dates in AfriNIC setup process

1997: First Initiative (Kuala Lumpur)

1998-2000: Consultations Meetings (Consensus)

2001-2003: Appointment of an Interim board of Trustees Selection of Hosting countries (ZA,MU,EG,GH) First staff appointed

2004: Organisational setup and Application to become Regional Internet Registry sent to ICANN

2005: AfriNIC got accreditation from ICANN and started serving Africa Region.

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Global IP allocation Hierarchy

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2001:4200::/232001:4200::/23196/8196/8

AS36864 - AS37887

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AfriNIC transition Process AfriNIC setup has been done trough a transition process which

has successfully been completed in February 2005:

Transfer of Member from other RIRs. Transfer of IP addresses management from other RIRs. Transfer of WHOIS data to AfriNIc infrastructure Transfer of billing

We started our full operations 8 months ago with: All IP requests from Africa being directly handled by

AfriNIC operation center Application of our own allocation policies Handling of new membership

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Support received During the whole process AfriNIC has received strong

support from different governments and organisation:

Government of South Africa Government of Mauritius Government of Égypt Government of France (DGCID) Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie

(INTIF) ISOC International NSRC

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What is AFNOG and why?

There will be a more detailed presentation on AFNOG tomorrow.

AfNOG: Is the African Network operators Group.

Founded in 2000, it has the mission to enhance Internet technical capability of Network operators for them to setup more scalable network and service.

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What is AFNOG and why? The need for having a strong Internet community in

Africa. Need for operators to move from small networks to more robust Infrastructure.

Already had more than 6 training events

Trained more than 350 Netwok Engineers from 34 countries on « Scalable Infrastructure & Services »

www.afnog.org

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AfriNIC & AfNOG The two organisations share the same community.

AfriNIC & AfNOG always have a meeting together each year (last one was in Maputo Mozambique)

They both have a common goal of enhancing African Internet community capability:

Training engineers on better management of their network

Better management of Internet resources in Africa. Creation of an open forum for policy development to

make them close to the continent’s business realities.

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Perspectives and Challenges AfriNIc and AfNOG are an oportunity for the Africa region to

enhance it paricipation into Internet technical work.

An MoU is underway between the two organisation to formalise their collaboration in bringing more african into the Internet technical coordination

AfriNIC will be launching a few research initiatives to allow Internet technical experts on the continent to be more present in the IETF work and present Africa region view on some specific aspect of the protocol development.

A very special attention will be given to IPv6 and security.

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Some challenges Outreach

Organize more awareness and training events around the continent.

Maintain a good level of service hire skilled staff (trained by AfNOG) strong and efficient organizational structure

Ensure a financial sustainability to the Organization Ensure self financing after incubation period.

Drive more participation of African into Internet Technical coordination process Rely on LIRs and local Internet stockholder to drive more

participation into the process. Involve African Universities and research bodies on the

continent.

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e Some resultsQ1 2005 vs. Q1 2004:

2004/2005 ASN Assignment Comparison

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Since February 2005 We have got:

26 New LIR members Allocations: 18 IPv4 Allocations ~412/22

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More Numbers

LIR Growth in Africa(Cumulative)

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Board of trustees

AfriNIC Structure

Adiel AKPLOGANCEO / CTOCEO / CTO

WG / Committees- Policies- Meetings- Election- Financial

Ernest ByaruhangaRS Manager

•West Africa

1.Pierre Dandjinou (BJ) - Chair

2.Sunday Folayan (NG)

•Central Africa

1.Didier Kasole (CD) 2.Gaetant Bouraga (GA )

•Indian Ocean

1.Dr. Viv Padayatchy (MU)

2.Keny Yiptong (MU)

•Southern Africa

1.Alan Barett (ZA)

2.Alan Levin (ZA)

•North Africa

1.Kamal Okba (MA)

2.Mokhtar Hamidi (DZ)

•East Africa

1.Brian Longwe (KE)

2.Charles Mussi (UG)

Harish GowrisunkurCFO (MU)

Nooriah WoozeerAdministrative Assistant (MU)

- Members - - Members -

Frank NnebeSoftware Engineer

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Conclusion

AfriNIC is a young organization setup through a successful collaboration between public sector, private sector and Civil Society. It needs the full

support of the local Community including universities and researchers through an active participation into

our policy development process and upcoming operational research projects for a better

management of Internet resources according to the realities on the continent.

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Participation to AfriNIC process

General discussions: afrini-discuss@afrinic.net

Policies discussion policy-wg@afrinic.net

Training and outreach training-discuss@afrinic.net

AfriNIC web site www.afrinic.net

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Thank you

“The dynamic feathers represent freedom and hope. The black

symbolises the earth and the solidity of the African continent, while the red

stands for the action, confidence, courage, and vitality at the heart of AfriNIC. Together, the two feathers

express the unity of the community.” - Our Logo -