The document discusses several proposed updates and clarifications to AFRINIC's internet number resource policies. Key proposals include establishing mechanisms for IPv4 and ASN transfers between regions, clarifying policies around IPv6 and temporary resource usage, and reviewing member's IPv4 resources to identify non-compliance. Community participation is encouraged by subscribing to mailing lists and attending biannual meetings to propose policies and voice opinions.
The Importance of adopting, implementing and following up IPv6 migration at a country/national Level. IPv6 preparedness is increasingly urgent and growth of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority pool for available IPv4 addresses is already exhausted.
The Presentation provide guidance of what the issues to consider when planning and monitoring an IPv6 migration managed by different stakeholders .
The Importance of adopting, implementing and following up IPv6 migration at a country/national Level. IPv6 preparedness is increasingly urgent and growth of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority pool for available IPv4 addresses is already exhausted.
The Presentation provide guidance of what the issues to consider when planning and monitoring an IPv6 migration managed by different stakeholders .
IPv6 Adoption in Latin America and Caribbean, by Carlos Martinez.
A presentation given at APRICOT 2016’s "IPv6 Readiness Measurement BoF and APIPv6TF" session on 24 February 2016.
Keynote presentation on the Internet of Things given by Paul Wilson, Director General at APNIC, at the inaugural Taiwan Internet Forum, held in Taipei, Taiwan from 8 December 2015
Isoc barriers to connectivity bishkek (28 april)ISOC-KG
Michael Kende, Chief Economist, ISOC.
Barriers to Internet availability and adoption. Interconnection, Access, and Infrastructure Analysis. Bishkek, 28 April 2015
MMNOG: Internet infrastructure comparisons in the Asia Pacific APNIC
Deputy Director General Sanjaya discusses how different networks within the region interconnect through the examination of different network topologies, and how Myanmar network operators can plan and grow the Internet in their economy at the first Myanmar Network Operators Group.
Internet Resource Analyst George Odagi gives an update on the implementation of APNIC policy proposal prop-132: RPKI ROAs for unallocated and unassigned APNIC address space.
IPv6 Adoption in Latin America and Caribbean, by Carlos Martinez.
A presentation given at APRICOT 2016’s "IPv6 Readiness Measurement BoF and APIPv6TF" session on 24 February 2016.
Keynote presentation on the Internet of Things given by Paul Wilson, Director General at APNIC, at the inaugural Taiwan Internet Forum, held in Taipei, Taiwan from 8 December 2015
Isoc barriers to connectivity bishkek (28 april)ISOC-KG
Michael Kende, Chief Economist, ISOC.
Barriers to Internet availability and adoption. Interconnection, Access, and Infrastructure Analysis. Bishkek, 28 April 2015
MMNOG: Internet infrastructure comparisons in the Asia Pacific APNIC
Deputy Director General Sanjaya discusses how different networks within the region interconnect through the examination of different network topologies, and how Myanmar network operators can plan and grow the Internet in their economy at the first Myanmar Network Operators Group.
Internet Resource Analyst George Odagi gives an update on the implementation of APNIC policy proposal prop-132: RPKI ROAs for unallocated and unassigned APNIC address space.
ATMOSPHERE at HPC2018 – Fogbow: Middleware for the Federation of IaaS Cloud P...ATMOSPHERE .
ATMOSPHERE was invited to be a speaker at HPC2018 workshop. Francisco Brasileiro, Brazilian Coordinator of ATMOSPHERE and Professor at Federal University of Campina Grande, will present a talk on “Fogbow: A Middleware for the Federation of IaaS Cloud Providers”.
Francisco Brasileiro presented the design and implementation of a middleware that allows the fast and non-intrusive deployment of very large federations of IaaS cloud providers. The use of the middleware in production systems will be also discussed, providing concrete evidences of its suitability
Peering Asia 2021v: Little-known IXPs in Asia PacificAPNIC
APNIC Infrastructure and Development Director Che-Hoo Cheng presents on less well known IXPs in the region and the important role they play in their economies.
IDNIC OPM 2023 - Internet Number Registry SystemAPNIC
APNIC Director of Information Management Sanjaya gives the keynote presentation on the Internet Number Registry System at the IDNIC OPM 2023, held in Bandung, Indonesia from 5 to 7 December 2023.
23rd PITA AGM and Conference: Key business drivers for IPv6APNIC
Senior Internet Resource Analyst Elly Tawhai gives a presentation on the key drivers for IPv6, covering how IPv6 enables the sustainable growth of the Internet, and the possibility for new services and business opportunities on large-scale IP installations.
Internet development in Africa: a content use, hosting and distribution persp...AFRINIC
With increasing demand for videos, streaming media, and for services such as cloud computing in Africa, broadband performance, and specifically how users experience performance, becomes increasingly important. In order to meet a growing demand for digital content, mobile operators across the continent have extensively invested in increasing capacity by investing in undersea cables, as well as in terrestrial fibre networks. Mobile
LTE networks provision is expanding as well but remains insufficient to cover remote and rural areas.
Insight Into Africa’s Country-level LatenciesAFRINIC
This paper provides insight into the effects of cross-border infrastructure and logical interconnections in Africa on both intra-country and cross-border latency on end-to-end Internet paths, by comparing Internet performance measurements between different countries. We collected ICMP pings between countries using Speedchecker and applied a community detection algorithm to group countries based on round-trip times (RTTs) between countries. We observed three main latency clusters: East and Southern Africa; North Africa; and West and Central Africa. An interesting observation is that these clusters largely correspond to countries that share the same official languages or past colonial history. The cluster in Eastern and Southern Africa is the most strongly clustered: these countries have the lowest inter-country latency values. We also found that some countries have a much higher intra-country latency than expected, pointing to the lack of local peering or physical infrastructure within the country itself.
This finding underscores the importance of physical networking
infrastructure deployment and inter-network relationships at a
country and regional level.
Deep Diving into Africa’s Inter-Country LatenciesAFRINIC
The Internet in Africa is evolving rapidly, yet remains significantly behind other regions in terms of performance and ubiquity of access. This clearly has negative consequences for the residents of Africa but also has implications for organisations designing
future networked technologies that might see deployment in the region. This paper presents a measurement campaign methodology to explore the current state of the African Internet. Using vantage points across the continent, we perform the first large-scale mapping of inter-country delays in Africa. Our analysis reveals a number of clusters, where countries have built up low delay interconnectivity, dispelling the myth that intra-communications in Africa are universally poor. Unfortunately, this does not extend to the remainder of the continent, which typically suffers from excessively high delays, often exceeding 300ms. We find that in many cases it is faster to reach European or North American networks than those in other regions of Africa. By mapping the internetwork topology, we identify a number of shortcomings in the infrastructure, most notably an excessive reliance on intercontinental transit providers.
Studying performance barriers to cloud services in Africa's public sectorAFRINIC
Cloud computing allows individuals and organisations to remotely lease storage and computation resources as needed. For such
remote access to computational resources to work efciently, there is need for well-developed Internet infrastructure to support reliable and low-delay delivery of trac. By carrying out the month-long Internet measurement campaign, this paper investigates the hosting situation and latencies in the public sector of ve African countries. Results of the study show that a large percentage of the public sector websites across the countries are hosted in cloud-based infrastructure and are physically located in America and Europe. Analysis of delays shows signicant diferences between local and remotely hosted websites, and that latencies are signficantly lower for countries that host CDN nodes. The results also suggest higher delays for local websites that are accessed circuitously.
Africa has the lowest rate of Internet penetration in the world. This is set to change with Africa predicted to be a major driving force in expanding global uptake. Despite this, recent studies have observed generally poor Internet performance on the continent. This paper presents a large-scale measurement study of the African Internet. It focusses on mapping the performance and topological characteristics of intra-Africa connectivity. Our analysis discovers a series of "communities", in which countries have built up low delay interconnectivity, dispelling the myth that intra delays in Africa are universally poor. Unfortunately, this does not extend to the remainder of the continent, which typically suffers from excessively high intercountry delays, often exceeding 300ms. To explain this, we explore the intra-continental topology to discover a number of shortcomings, most notably an excessive reliance on international transit providers rather than local peering.
Tampering With the Open Internet: Experiences From AfricaAFRINIC
The talk explores the ways, explicit and covert, in which states and private operators hinder the free flow of internet traffic. The security and privacy implications of such tampering numerous, but could intermediaries in Africa play a more proactive role to minimise threats to an open internet? This talk also notes how practices such as surveillance and censorship affect civic engagement, and, as food for thought, poses the question of how the economic and social impacts of internet traffic tampering in Africa countries should be accurately measured.
Assessing Internet Freedom and the Digital ResilienceAFRINIC
Since December 2016, CIPIT, a research centre at Strathmore Law School in partnership with Small Media, a research and advocacy organization based in London, UK , has been running network measurements to investigate the relationship between physical internet infrastructure ownership and internet freedom in Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania. Physical internet infrastructure is used here to mean the networking layer of the internet connecting end users to the global ecosystem from national gateways, exchange points and service providers.
Measuring quality of Internet links in NRENsAFRINIC
This talk focuses on the deployment of perfSONAR at KENET as well as bottlenecks to watch out for when specifying hardware for Internet measurements. In addition, the presentation also delves into ways in which the infrastructure at KENET is utilized for end-to-end network performance measurements for collaborating researchers and faculty in Kenya and other collaborating institutions in other countries.
State of Internet measurement Infrastructure/tools in AfricaAFRINIC
The presentation will aim to highlight the state of the measurements infrastructure in Africa, with the view of devising strategies for increasing the availability and capabilities of the available tools and vantage points. Topics such as how tackle the question of how to increase the footprint and diversity of vantage points (probes and measurement anchors), as well as how to leverage mobile devices for Internet measurements will be discussed.
The RIPE Atlas team released a new online tool that helps to make sense of trace routes that are generated by RIPE Atlas. Use this tool to optimize your routing and debug network problems.
Measuring the complexity of the Internet: indexes and indicatorsAFRINIC
Measuring internet development in order to achieve better connectivity and resulting socio-economic development goals is a challenge and a necessity to ascertain progress made in terms of ICT sector development and socio-economic growth. Many intergovernmental, governments, non-profit and private organisations have sought to tackle the challenge through setting targets, defining indicators, and applying research methods to measure progress. Nevertheless, ambitious goals and targets relate mostly to the achievement or improvement of physical connectivity to ICT, while as more and more people get connected to the internet, the attainment of users' digital rights including capabilities and liberties will need to be measured as well and will need to be included in policy objectives on ICT development.
Beyond access: measuring digital inequalitiesAFRINIC
hrough the RIA ICT Household and Individual Access and Use Surveys, the digital divide is analysed not only by using narrow supply-side indicators, or at the level of purely descriptive quantitative data, but also through the impact of gender, location (i.e. urban/rural), and age on social and economic outcomes in relation to areas other than ICT. RIA’s studies on ICT access and use move beyond the issue of physical access to the infrastructure to the increasingly critical issue of ICT use as well as the factors that enable and or constrain use. The factors that determine individuals’ abilities to optimally use such potentially enabling technologies are also studied.
ARDA - Measuring peering and Interdomain routing topologyAFRINIC
Abstract: The African Route-collectors Data Analyzer (ARDA) system aims to present data collected at African IXPs in ways that can be easily extrapolated into practical business, policy, developmental, technical, or research opportunities for everyone involved in the peering and interconnection ecosystem.
Isolario - A real-time Internet routing ObservatoryAFRINIC
The incompleteness of data collected from BGP route collecting projects is a well-known issue. Recent works explained that one of the possible solution is to increase the contribution in terms of routing data collected from ASes located in the Internet periphery, in order to reveal the peering connectivity of their upstream providers. Our contribution is Isolario, a route collecting project based on the do-ut-des principle which aims to increase the appeal of BGP route collecting for persuading network administrators in small-medium organizations to share their routing information by offering services in return, ranging from real-time analyses of the incoming BGP session(s) to historic analyses of routing reachability.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
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Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
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1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
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4. Demo
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Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
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2. • Internet now a basic right, part & parcel of our work and personal
space.
• At the heart of the internet’s operation are IP addresses (the engine)
• AFRINIC (+ other RIRs) manage the distribution of these IP addresses
to operators, ISPs, end-users in their communities
• Distribution is governed by policies, developed by these communities
in a transparent, all inclusive bottom-up process.
• AFRINIC (+ all RIRs) act as facilitator, implementer.
• All implemented proposals enter the ‘Policy Manual’ (CPM)
• Participation platforms: Such meetings, rpd list.
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4. AFRINIC Policy Development Process – bis
https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2017-gen-002-d5#proposal
This proposal is a major revision of the current Policy Development
Process. Major highlights include:
• A clearer mechanism for appeals and disputes.
• Introduction of distinct phases in the policy proposal life cycle.
• More transparency around consensus-gauging.
under discussion (1/10)
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5. Abuse Contact Policy Update
https://afrinic.net/policy/2018-gen-001-d2
Updates CPM 8.0 (Abuse Contact Information) with the following key
amendments:
• Introduction of a mandatory “abuse-c” attribute into inetnum,
inet6num and aut-num whois database objects for resources directly
issued by AFRINIC. The value of this attribute is an “abuse-mailbox”,
which must be a valid e-mail address.
• A mechanism is proposed to validate the “abuse-mailbox” and
report/escalate invalid or those that are unresponsive.
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under discussion (2/10)
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6. Provisions for Resource Hijacking
https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/provisions-for-resource-
hijacking
The proposal provides a framework for recognizing that IP address
hijacks are a policy violation within the AFRINIC service region. A
method to identify and report hijacks is proposed and a pool of experts
chosen from the community is instituted to investigate each reported
case.
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under discussion (3/10)
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7. IPv4 Inter-RIR Legacy Resource Transfers
https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-v4-001-d1#proposal
• Establishes a mechanism to allow transfers of legacy IPv4 space
to/from other regions. The intent is to align AFRINIC with an IPv4
address market that already exists for which AFRICA is not currently
part.
• The author fronted two Inter-RIR proposals with hope to withdraw
one if the other passes through.
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under discussion (4/10)
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8. IPv4 Inter-RIR Resource Transfers (Comprehensive Scope)
https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-v4-002-d1
• Allows establishing a mechanism to allow transfers of IPv4 space
to/from other regions. The intent is to align AFRINIC with an IPv4
address market that already exists for which AFRICA is not currently
part.
• The author fronted two Inter-RIR proposals with hope to withdraw
one if the other passes through.
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under discussion (5/10)
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9. IPv6 PI Clarification
https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-v6-001-d2#proposal
• Amends original policy proposal “IPv6 PI Update” (AFPUB-2018-V6-004)
currently CPM 6.8.2(v), which requires that IPv6 PI space should be
announced within 12 months of getting it, and should not be
disaggregated.
• This proposal does not make it mandatory to announce the space, since
there is no RFC1918 equivalent for IPv4, and cases like IXP peering LAN
space doesn’t necessarily have to be announced. If announced however,
the condition to disaggregate it is still in place.
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under discussion (6/10)
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10. SL Update
https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2018-v4-001
• Proposes an update to CPM 5.4.7.2 which removes the Board’s power
to replenish the (exhaustion) pool with any IPv4 space available at the
time (such as the /12 reserve in 5.4.7.1). The proposal also stipulates
that the same /12, if still unused by the time phase 2 space is
exhausted, be automatically
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under discussion (7/10)
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11. Multihoming not required for ASN
https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2019-asn-001-d2
Modifies CPM 7.4 by removing 7.4.2, a clause requiring requestors of ASNs
to be multihomed (or demonstrate plan thereof). Instead, the proposal sets
the following criteria:
• A unique routing policy or
• Interconnection with one or more other ASNs which requires a globally
unique ASN.
• An organization will also be eligible if it can demonstrate that it will meet
any of the above criteria upon receiving an ASN (or within the following six
months).
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under discussion (8/10)
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12. Internet Number Resources Review by AFRINIC
https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2016-gen-001-d8
The proposal introduces a mechanism for AFRINIC to conduct reviews
(or audits) for IPv4 number resources issued to members, and
recommends reclamation of resources that are found to be in breach
or not in compliance.
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under discussion (9/10)
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13. Clarification on temporary resource usage
https://afrinic.net/policy/2018-gen-004-d1#proposal
• Introduces restrictions to the size of IPv4 space requests for temporary use
(such as conferences and meetings) – capped at /22 maximum.
• Encourages the use of IPv6 on the premise that it is now mature enough to
be deployed for this kind of use whereby the requesting entity preferably
uses IPv6-only on their networks while deploying IPv4 at the edge of the
network using an IPv6 transition mechanism.
• Amends the title of CPM 9.0 to “Temporary Resource Assignments”
(deleted the “allocations” wording) to reflect that these are PI assignments.
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under discussion (10/10)
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14. Clarification on IPv6 Sub-Assignments
https://www.afrinic.net/policy/2018-v6-002-d3
• Adds a requirement to CPM 6.8 stipulating that IPv6 PI space cannot
be issued to third parties, and must only be used in the network
infrastructure of the member issued the space.
• Status: Implementation imminent - Pending confirmation of internal
documentation and procedure update.
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under implementation (1/2)
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15. IPv6 PI Update
https://www.afrinic.net/policy/2018-v6-004-d1#proposal
On pause - the new proposal “IPv6 PI Clarification” removes the
mandatory requirement to announce the space, and makes this
optional. Waiting for decision on this proposal before proceeding with
automation work below:
• PI space to be announced within 12 months of receiving it, else it
should be returned to pool
• PI space must be announced as single aggregate.
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under implementation (2/2)
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16. Lame Delegations in the AFRINIC Reverse DNS
Proposed: 15.03.2017
Last Call: 01.12.2017
Ratified: 21.03.2018
Implemented: August 2018
CPM Article: 10.7
The requirement to delete non-compliant nserver attributes and/or
objects whose referenced nserver values are lame is still not yet
implemented, as the issue of false positives is still under investigation.
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17. Participate, make your voice heard
- Subscribe to rpd@afrinic.net
- Attend the bi-annual public policy meetings (in-person, remotely)
- Propose policy that you deem relevant to address your (and
community’s) needs.
- Speak up and be part of the action during face to face and mailing list
discussions.
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Be part..
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