The document discusses the activities and initiatives of Afrinic, the African Regional Internet Registry, emphasizing its role in managing IPv4 and IPv6 networks and contributing to internet infrastructure development in Africa. It highlights training sessions for over 2000 individuals and participation in global policy development. Additionally, it mentions various internet events and forums aimed at fostering collaboration among internet operators in Africa.

1. Global Networking and Partnership
Opportunities
Seeing the Big Picture
Hisham Ibrahim
IPv6 Program Manager, AFRINIC
TunixP, Tunis
30 April 2013

2. • Biannual Internet Protocol meeting:
17 so far in 14 countries
• Internet Infrastructure
reinforcement development in
Africa:
- IXP
- DNS Root Server copy
- Anycast service to support ccTLDs
in Africa
• Support to academic Networks
• Manage IPv4 & IPv6
• Manage ASN (2 and 4 byte)
• Manage rDNS tree for IP prefixes
in use by African Operators
• Provide a Public WHOIS
• Contribute to IP address
Management Global Policy
development
Internet Numbers Registry
main function
Other Services to the
African community
Capacity building and training: more than 100 training sessions
with over 2000 trained in 40 countries around Africa.
Setup in 2004 and headquartered in Mauritius.
Employs 35 full time staff today with staff based
in East, North, South & West Africa
African Regional
Internet Registry
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3. African IPv6
Interconnection
* Africa IPv6 BGP Map, curtsy of Hurricane Electric, September 2012.
* Thicker lines indicate more BGP sessions
* Not all links will show within these graphs, due to the limited number of collectors in Africa

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* North Africa BGP Map, curtsy of Hurricane Electric, February 2013.
* Pink means v4 and v6.
* Not all links will show within these graphs, due to the limited number of
collectors in Africa.
North African IPv4 & IPv6
Interconnection

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Africa Internet summit
AIS
AFRINIC Public Policy meeting
AFNOG Africa Network Operator
AFRICERT Africa Community Emergency Response Teams
AFREN Africa Research and Education Network
Sessions on IPv6, IETF, Peering, DNS industry, Anti spam and others
http://internetsummitafrica.org/

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Africa Peering & Interconnection
Forum (AfPIF)
http://www.internetsociety.org/events/afpif-2013
Location:
The event will be held at the Sheraton Casablanca
Hotel & Towers, Casablanca, Morocco.
Date:
3 - 5 September, 2013

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• ...collaborative
environment for
African IXP
operators
• Assistance with
facilities/policies/…
• 80% representation
AF-IX
info@af-ix.net

8. Thanking
Merci
Hisham Ibrahim
IPv6 Program Manager, AFRINIC
hisham@afrinic.net