"AFRINIC Update" by Alan Barrett. A presentation give at the APNIC 40 Global reports session on Wed 9 Sep 2015.

1. The African Network Information Centre
“Spearheading Internet Technology and policy development
in the African Region”
Alan BARRETT
CEO, AFRINIC
APNIC-40, Jakarta, INDONESIA
1O Sept 2015

2. Set up in 2005 as the RIR for Africa (10 years this 8th April 2015)
- 40 full time staff from 13 countries.
Service Region
Six sub regions made up of 56 economies in Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Headquartered in Mauritius.
Around 1 250 members as at August 2015 (854 LIR, 393 End User)
AFRINIC Services procedures certified ISO 9001:2008 in December 2014
ABOUT AFRINIC

3. IPv4, IPv6 & ASNs DISTRIBUTIONS STATISTICS
 AFRINIC, only RIR with non-critically low IPv4 space
 (Around 42 millions /32 IPv4 addresses available as of end of Aug 2015)
 +79 Millions/32 IPv4 addresses issued since 2004
 +7 Millions/32 IPv4 addresses already issued in 2015
 Deploying IPv6 is critical for the development, sustainability and accessibility
of the Internet.
Since 2004, +490 IPv6 prefixes (mostly /32 and /48) issued to
464 of AFRINIC Members (37%)
51 African countries (91% of the continent coverage)
For 2015, +60 IPv6 prefixes issued
 Since 2004, +1,250 ASNs issued
For 2015,+110 ASNs issued

4. AFRINIC as the African RIR
AFRINIC plays a leading role in the development of critical infrastructure in Africa for a more secure and
stable Internet.
Community engagement
• AFRINIC Public Policy Meetings (twice a year – May and November).
• Yearly Africa Internet Summit (AIS) in May hosting the Af* (African Organisations) in the Internet Ecosystem
Internet Governance
• Representing the interests of the African region at various Internet governance fora.
• AFRINIC support the African Regional IGF’s
• Initiator of the AFRINIC Government Working Group (AFGWG)
 Training courses delivered in English and French throughout Africa
 2000 engineers trained in 130 courses in 40 countries since 2005.
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. FIRE is part of the Seed Alliance together with FRIDA (LACNIC) and ISIF Asia (APNIC).

5. • RPKI v2.0 was launched in June 2015
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DNSSEC: We sign our own zones. New DNSSEC v2.0 signer to be deployed by end
of Sept 2015, will help members sign their reverse zones.
• AFRINIC/RIPE ATLAS Internet Measurement : 58 Probes & Anchors were given to
the Community end August 2015
• African Internet Ressources and Routing Statistics (AIRRS): Currently being re-
vamped
• African Root Server Copy facilitated (ICANN L root): Angola, Cote D’Ivoire,
Mauritius, Rwanda & Tunisia
• African DNS Support: We provide secondary service for 26 regional ccTLDs
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Incident reporting: All incidents/outages are now reported via: Twitter
@AFRINIC_IT, mailing list incidents@afrinic.net, web page
www.afrinic.net/en/incidents; report problems to noc@afrinic.net
•
Updates Services/Projects/Initiatives

6. Resource reservation for Internet exchange points – AFPUB-2014-GEN-004
Reserves a /16 block of IPv4 space for use for IXP peering LANs
Reserves half of the currently-remaining “2 byte” ASNs for BGP route
servers at IXPs
Ratified by the Board in July 2015
Out-Of-Region Use of AFRINIC Internet Number Resources - AFPUB-2014-
GEN-001
Would require at least 60% of each member’s resources to be used in the
AFRINIC service region
Proposed in 2014, still no consensus, still under discussion
Policy Development

7. • New WHOIS, based on RIPE code.
• AFRINIC IRR: Open to AFRINIC members Assistance to members to migrate route
objects from RIPE IRR
• New Membership Registration Portal to facilitate Registration of new members
https://apps.afrinic.net/nmrp/
• MyAFRINIC revamped: AFRINIC Member Portal fully integrated with the billing
platform
• Registration Service Guidebooks for LIR Members:
http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/membership-documents
• Community mailing list (not only for members): community-discuss@afrinic.net
Updates VA Services/Projects/Initiatives…..Cont’d

8. Training courses delivered in English and French throughout Africa
- Internet Number Resource Management incl. DNSSEC and RPKI.
- IPv6 planning and deployment (IPv6 Forum Gold Certified).
2000 engineers trained in 130 courses in 40 countries since 2005. More:
http://learn.afrinic.net
Since January 2015, around 350 African Network Engineers, Government &
Regulators, Universities & Academias have been trained in 8 different
countries in Africa.
AFRINIC acts as Secretariat for the Africa IPv6 Task Force:
- A Community Driven initiative: subscribe to afripv6-discuss@afrinic.net
Training and Capacity Building at AFRINIC

9. Global and Regional Participation
• IANA Transition: CRISP, ICG, CCWG
• Supports African IGF
• Contributing to IETF Endowment
AFRINIC and Internet Governance

10. AFRINIC-23 will be held in Pointe Noire in Congo-Brazzaville , 28 November
to 4 December 2015
Next AFRINIC-24 will be during the Africa Internet Summit (AIS’16) in Botswana
AFRINIC Meetings provide a unique opportunity for Internet-related individuals and organisations to
gather to discuss the policies governing Internet number resource distribution in the African region, to
share technical knowledge, and to attend workshops and tutorials.
Attendance is free and open to anyone.
Remote participation is also facilitated and encouraged.
Please join us, it’s open to all!
Upcoming AFRINIC Public Policy Meetings

11. Join the AFRINIC Community
Visit our website: www.afrinic.net
Subscribe to our Mailing Lists – among others
- announce@afrinic.net
- rpd@afrinic.net
- Afripv6- discuss@afrinic.net
- community-discuss@afrinic.net
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