Transcript African Network Information centre What is AFNOG and why?

African Network Information centre
Overview
Presented at the Regional Workshop on African Research &
Education Networking, Sept. 25-27 CERN, Geneva
Pierre Dandjinou Chairman
© AfriNIC - 2005
Adiel A. Akplogan CEO
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Our mission
“To provide professional and efficient
distribution of Internet number resources to
the African Internet community, to support
Internet technology usage and development
across the continent and strengthen self
Internet governance in Africa by encouraging
a participative policy development.”
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Why AfriNIC?
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Issues
Lack of coordination on IP resources Management in
Africa.
Inconsistency in addresses allocation policies.
Poor involvement of African stakeholders in IP
addresses allocation system.
Policy inappropriate for African’s Internet environment.
Money is sent out of the continent
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The new map!
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Result
a common addresses allocation policy for Africa.
a common environment for discussions on IP resources
Policy.
Application of the bottom-up process to allow
participation from the local community.
Adoption of new policies more close to the continent
realities.
Money is now retained in Africa to support training and
other related projects.
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Key dates in AfriNIC setup process
 1997: First Initiative (Kuala Lumpur)
 1998-2000: Consultations Meetings (Consensus)
 2001-2003:
 Appointment of an Interim board of Trustees
 Selection of Hosting countries (ZA,MU,EG,GH)
 First staff appointed
 2004: Organisational setup and Application to
become Regional Internet Registry sent to ICANN
 2005: AfriNIC got accreditation from ICANN and
started serving Africa Region.
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Global IP allocation Hierarchy
196/8
2001:4200::/23
AS36864 - AS37887
41/8
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AfriNIC transition Process
 AfriNIC setup has been done trough a transition process which
has successfully been completed in February 2005:
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Transfer of Member from other RIRs.
Transfer of IP addresses management from other RIRs.
Transfer of WHOIS data to AfriNIc infrastructure
Transfer of billing
 We started our full operations 8 months ago with:
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All IP requests from Africa being directly handled by
AfriNIC operation center
Application of our own allocation policies
Handling of new membership
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Support received
 During the whole process AfriNIC has received strong
support from different governments and organisation:
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Government of South Africa
Government of Mauritius
Government of Égypt
Government of France (DGCID)
Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie
(INTIF)
ISOC International
NSRC
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What is AFNOG and why?
 There will be a more detailed presentation on
AFNOG tomorrow.
 AfNOG: Is the African Network operators
Group.
 Founded in 2000, it has the mission to
enhance Internet technical capability of
Network operators for them to setup more
scalable network and service.
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What is AFNOG and why?
 The need for having a strong Internet community in
Africa. Need for operators to move from small
networks to more robust Infrastructure.
 Already had more than 6 training events
 Trained more than 350 Netwok Engineers from 34
countries on « Scalable Infrastructure & Services »
 www.afnog.org
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AfriNIC & AfNOG
 The two organisations share the same community.
 AfriNIC & AfNOG always have a meeting together
each year (last one was in Maputo Mozambique)
 They both have a common goal of enhancing African
Internet community capability:
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Training engineers on better management of their
network
Better management of Internet resources in Africa.
Creation of an open forum for policy development to
make them close to the continent’s business realities.
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Perspectives and Challenges
 AfriNIc and AfNOG are an oportunity for the Africa region to
enhance it paricipation into Internet technical work.
 An MoU is underway between the two organisation to formalise
their collaboration in bringing more african into the Internet
technical coordination
 AfriNIC will be launching a few research initiatives to allow
Internet technical experts on the continent to be more present in
the IETF work and present Africa region view on some specific
aspect of the protocol development.
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A very special attention will be given to IPv6 and security.
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Some challenges
 Outreach
Organize more awareness and training events around the
continent.
 Maintain a good level of service
 hire skilled staff (trained by AfNOG)
 strong and efficient organizational structure
 Ensure a financial sustainability to the Organization
 Ensure self financing after incubation period.
 Drive more participation of African into Internet Technical
coordination process
 Rely on LIRs and local Internet stockholder to drive more
participation into the process.
 Involve African Universities and research bodies on the
continent.
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Some results
Q1 2005 vs. Q1 2004:
2004/2005 ASN Assignment Comparison
9
8
6
5
4
3
2
1
IPv4 LIR/End-User Approvals
0
Jan
Feb
2004 (RIPE/ARIN/APNIC)
March
April 7
6
2005 (AfriNIC)
LIR Alloc. Count
AS Number Count
7
5
4
3
2
1
0
Jan
Feb
2004 (RIPE/ARIN/APNIC)
March
2005 (AfriNIC)
April
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Since February 2005
 We have got:
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26 New LIR members
Allocations: 18 IPv4 Allocations ~412/22
7
7
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
7
5
IPv4
4
ASN
3
3
3
IPv6
2
2
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New LIR
1
0
0
0
March
April
0
May
June
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More Numbers
LIR Growth in Africa
(Cumulative)
200
32
150
26
23
100
18
28
50
0
24
15
27
27
1998
1999
2000
51
2001
89
2002
97
2003
120
2004
146
2005
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AfriNIC Structure
- Members •West Africa
•Southern Africa
1.Pierre Dandjinou (BJ) - Chair 1.Alan Barett (ZA)
2.Sunday Folayan (NG)
2.Alan Levin (ZA)
•Central Africa
•North Africa
1.Didier Kasole (CD)
2.Gaetant Bouraga (GA )
1.Kamal Okba (MA)
•Indian Ocean
•East Africa
1.Dr. Viv Padayatchy (MU)
1.Brian Longwe (KE)
2.Keny Yiptong (MU)
2.Charles Mussi (UG)
2.Mokhtar Hamidi (DZ)
WG / Committees
- Policies
- Meetings
- Election
- Financial
Harish Gowrisunkur
CFO (MU)
Board of trustees
Adiel AKPLOGAN
CEO / CTO
Nooriah Woozeer
Administrative
Assistant (MU)
Ernest Byaruhanga
RS Manager
Frank Nnebe
Software Engineer
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Conclusion
AfriNIC is a young organization setup through a
successful collaboration between public sector,
private sector and Civil Society. It needs the full
support of the local Community including universities
and researchers through an active participation into
our policy development process and upcoming
operational research projects for a better
management of Internet resources according to the
realities on the continent.
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Participation to AfriNIC process
 General discussions:
 [email protected]
 Policies discussion
 [email protected]
 Training and outreach
 [email protected]
 AfriNIC web site
 www.afrinic.net
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Thank you
“The dynamic feathers represent
freedom and hope. The black
symbolises the earth and the solidity
of the African continent, while the red
stands for the action, confidence,
courage, and vitality at the heart of
AfriNIC. Together, the two feathers
express the unity of the community.”
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