AFRINIC Update

Madhvi GOKOOLAFRINIC Ltd

RIPE69 , LONDON

November 2014

AFRINIC at Glance

• 36 full time staff • 9,474,816 /32 IPv4 addresses issued in 2014• 3.06 /8 available in our IPv4 Pool.• Serving a total of 1132 organisations • 415 Members with IPv6 prefixes (~30 % of

membership ratio but only 15 % visibility)• Training Stats for 2014: +300 engineers

attended 7 IPv6+INRM workshops conducted in 7 countries

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Membership Trend (2007- Nov 2014)

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Interesting projects

• RPKI: Continue working on our RPKI service.

• DNS Anycast service for our infrastructure and extended to ccTLDs: More than 20 ccTLDs using the service now.

• WHOIS database clean up

• Routing Registry & Web update

• New WHOIS (Based on RIPE java code)

• Extension of MyAFRINIC to fully integrate Billing.

• Portal for new membership & resource requestsPage 4

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Proposal Status

1 Out-Of-Region Use of AFRINIC Internet Number Resources

Discussion

2 AFRINIC WHOIS Database Clean-up Discussion

3Anycast Resource Assignments in the AFRINIC region Discussion

4. AFRINIC Service Guidelines Discussion

5. Resource Reservation for Internet Exchange Points Discussion

Policies Update

The Fund for Internet Research and Education (FIRE) was initiated in 2007.

Grants and Awards programme designed to encourage and support the development of solutions to information and communication needs in the African region.

A financial support of USD 10 000 is granted to Innovative Projects:

- Under Three funding categories:• Innovation on Access Provision• E-Development• Freedom of expression

FIRE is part of the Seed Alliance together with FRIDA (LACNIC from Latin America) and ISIF Asia (APNIC from Asia Pacific).

Development and Cooperation

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You are invited to our next event

meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic-21Page 9

Join us in celebrating AFRINIC@10

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Questions