Presentation by Amreesh Phokeer at APRICOT 2018 on Tuesday, 27 February 2018.

1. AFRINIC Update
Amreesh Phokeer
R&D Manager
APRICOT 2018 | February 2018

2. Internet Number Resource Statistics
Statistics• 2017:
– 7.5 million IPv4 addresses allocated (36% less than in 2016).
– 113 /32s of IPv6 space allocated.
– 150 Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) assigned.
– 12.9 million IPv4 addresses remaining at end 2017
– 43.6% of the membership has an IPv6 allocation
• 2016:
– 11.7 million IPv4 addresses allocated
– 78 /32s, 37 /48s and 1 /40 of IPv6 address space allocated.
– 169 Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) assigned
– 40.3 % of the membership has an IPv6 allocation

3. Membership and Resources Statistics
• 144 new members in 2017
• Total Members to date: 1554
• Total IPv4 address space held by Members: 101+ million /32s
• Total IPv6 address space held by Members: 9187 /32s
• Total IPv4 (legacy) space held by legacy space holders: 8.5 million /32s

4. IPv4 Exhaustion Statistics
0.6751 /8
Jan-2019
IPv4 Exhaustion: Phase 1
Softlanding policy (April 2017)
Maximum /13
of IPv4 address space

5. Policy Update 1
[AFRINIC PDP-bis]
(DRAFT-02) : 09 November 2017, under discussion
Suggests improvements to the current PDP, majorly:
• Clearer mechanisms for appeals and disputes
• Introduction of distinct phases in the policy proposal life cycle
• More transparency around consensus-gauging

6. Policy Update 2
[Route Aggregation Policy]
(DRAFT-01) : 21 April 2017, under discussion.
Allows issuance of IPv4 prefixes as contiguous bit boundary ranges in
order to limit/mitigate the number of ‘broken’ IPv4 prefixes being
announced.

7. Policy Update 3
[Lame Delegations in the AFRINIC reverse DNS]
(DRAFT-02) : Nov 2017, Pending Board Ratification
• Proposal lays out a process to monitor NS records responsible for
lame delegations (in DNS zones under in-addr.arpa and ip6.arpa
managed by AFRINIC).
• Puts in place a phased approach to removing these records from the
DNS.
• Community consensus at AFRINIC-27, awaits ratification

8. Policy Update 4
[Internet Number Resources’ Review]
(DRAFT-05) : 21 Oct 2017, under discussion
- Allows AFRINIC to conduct routine (or whistle-blower triggered)
resource audits on members.
- Provides for revocation of resources (and closure of members) that
fail such audits (reviews).
- No consensus at AFRINIC-27 (5th version), still under discussion.

9. Policy Update 5
[IPv4 Soft Landing bis]
(DRAFT-07) : 01 Dec 2017, Sent for Board Ratification
Currently under appeal awaiting on “appeal committee” decision
- Complete replacement of the current Soft Landing policy (CPM 5.4)
- New maximum allocation sizes (/13 /18 for phase 1 of exhaustion, /22 for
phase 2 of exhaustion). (Phase 2 starts when remaining free pool hits /11).
- Sets a 2-year wait period for subsequent allocation if a member has
already been allocated maximum space in either phase.
- Reserves a /12 to ‘facilitate IPv6 deployment’.
- Community Consensus at AFRINIC27.
- Awaits appeal committee decision.

10. Policy Update 6
[IPv4 Resource Transfers within the AFRINIC region]
Implemented in February 2018 – CPM 5.7
- Provides for IPv4 transfers within the region (intra RIR transfers)
- Caters to African companies needing IPv4 space in exhaustion phase (or
when AFRINIC can no longer satisfy the needs of such an organization).
- Transfer recipients must demonstrate the need for space to be transferred.

11. Capacity Building and Development
Training
– 653 people trained on IPv6 and INRM in 18 countries throughout Africa in 2017.
– Free training on IPv6 Deployment: www.learn.afrinic.net
– Launched Certi::6 – IPv6 Certification Programme: www.certi6.io
– Use of IPv6 test bed
– Knowledge share and information exchange
FIRE Africa
US$ 350,000 of funding allocated to 13 projects in 2017. We selected 3 projects from
the 350 applications for the FIRE Awards 2017.
Fellowships
26 AFRINIC Fellows were provided with assistance to attend the AFRINIC-26 and
AFRINIC-27 Meetings in 2017.

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