AFRINIC is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Adiel Akplogan is stepping down after 10 years as CEO, and Patrisse Deesse has been appointed interim CEO. AFRINIC membership has grown to over 1,100 members, and it has distributed over 12 million IPv4 addresses and 3 million IPv6 addresses in 2014. AFRINIC is working on various projects including DNS anycast, a new WHOIS system, and capacity building programs in Africa. It aims to have 250 network probes and 11 anchors for its ATLAS project by 2016.
2. A Quick Glance…
• AFRINIC celebrating 10 years of
existence as an RIR
• Farewell to Adiel Akplogan after 10
years of service as CEO at AFRINIC
– Patrisse Deesse nominated as Interim CEO
• Alan Barrett as NRO representative on
the ICG
3. Membership Trend (2006- 2014)
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1,152 active members as of Year Ending 2014
7. Ongoing Projects
• ATLAS: 250 Probes/11 anchors by 2016
• RPKI: Moving to APNIC last release
v20140107-1
• AIRRS: African Internet Routing and
Resources Statistics
• DNS Anycast and Route Server Copy
• New WHOIS (Based on RIPE java code)
• Routing Registry: bundled with new
Whois
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8. Page 8
Policies Update
Proposal Status
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Out-Of-Region Use of AFRINIC Internet Number
Resources
Discussion
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Resource Reservation for Internet Exchange
Points
Discussion
3 AFRINIC Service Guidelines Discussion
4.
Anycast Resource Assignments in the AFRINIC
region
Ratified
10. FIRE Program
www.fireafrica.org
Grants and Awards Program designed to
encourage and support the development of
solutions to information and communication
needs in the African region.
Part of the Seed Alliance with FRIDA
(LACNIC) and ISIF Asia (APNIC)
22 Grants and 8 Awards given since 2012
The Fund for Internet Research and Education
(FIRE)
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• IG
– Cooperation within the NRO
• IANA Stewardship Transition
• ICANN Accountability
• Global IGF
– Support to Regional IGF’s
• Capacity Building & Community
Engagement
– Training for Governments, Policy Makers
and Managers.
– African Union, African Telecommunications
Union.
Global & Regional
Engagement
12. Additional Highlights…
• 40 full time staff as of Dec 2014
• Creation of 2 New Departments and Unit
– Capacity Building and Community Engagement
– Research and New Technology
– Customer Service Unit (within Member Services Department)
• 2.74 /8 available in our IPv4 Pool end of 2014
• 414 Members with IPv6 prefixes (36 % of
membership ratio but only 15 % visibility)in 2014
• IPv6 prefixes allocated to 49 of 56 African economies
(IPv6 coverage of 88% in Africa)
• Elections
– AFRINIC Board (two seats - Southern and Eastern) in June 2015
– Policy Development Working Group: one co-Chair in June 2015
– NRO-NC/ICANN ASO AC (one Representative) in Nov 2015
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13. For more stats, check out our latest
publication
The Number Crunch
http://www.afrinic.net/images/storie
s/front_slide/number_crunch2.7.pdf
14. You are invited to our next event
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