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AFRINIC in the Internet Ecosystem
Adiel A. Akplogan
CEO, AFRINIC
July 2013
IP addresses
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IP Addresses vs. Domain Names
• IP Address [Identifier] – “Computer-friendly” – Unique number identifies computer on Internet – Used for routing
• DNS Name [Reference] – “People-Friendly” – Maps host name to unique IP address – Not used for routing
• IP addresses are mandatory for Internet Protocol communications, while domain naming facilitates communication and accessibility of the Internet to the end users
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• Internet identifiers including information about how to reach a network location
• (via the Internet routing system)
• IPv4: 32-bit* number. Written in Dotted Decimal Notation
205.150.58.7 4 billion different host addresses
• IPv6: 128-bit* number. Written in Hex Decimal Notation
2001:0503:0C27:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 16 billion billion network addresses (/48)
* bit = binary digit
Identifying an IP address
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The Number Registry System TODAY
RIPE NCC
Created in 1992 out of the DDN-NIC (JP)
APNIC
Created in 1993 out of RIPENCC & DDN-NIC (JP)
ARIN
Created in 1997 out of InterNIC/Verisign
LACNIC
2003 out of ARIN
AFRINIC
2005 out of ARIN / APNIC / RIPENCC
RFC 1174
1993 1997
1998 ICANN
2005 1992 2003
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
West Africa North Africa Central Africa Indian Ocean
Finance and Audit
NominaAon CommiBee
Council of Elders
East Africa
AfriNIC Staff Mauritius 32
South Africa 1 Uganda 1 9 countries
CEO
Southern Africa
Community/Members [LIRs/End Users/Members_Only]
AfGWG …..
New Organisation Structure
ElecAon Process review
Independents
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Highlight of New Bylaws • Reduce Board size from 13 to 9 with three
non-regional • Membership Types
– Registered Members (Board) – Resources Members (LIR/End-Users) – Associate Member (Others)
• Introduction of a formal General Member Meeting once a year
• Separate Nomination committee from Election Committee
• Formalisation of CoE in the Bylaws • Introduce: e-voting and emergency Policy
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ACTIVITIES
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
Biannual Internet Protocol meeting: 13 so far in 10 countries
Internet Infrastructure reinforcement development in Africa:
IXP DNS Root Server copy Anycast service to support
ccTLDs in Africa Support to academic
Networks
Other Services to the community
Training: more than 150 training sessions in 45 countries around Africa since 2005.
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Final users (/24, /23, ..
Regional Internet Registries (/8, /12)
Manages Central Pool 0/0, 2000::/3,
IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
AfriNIC
LIR End Users
APNIC ARIN LACNIC RIPE NCC
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Number Management Chain
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IP Address Allocation Process
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• Policy Objectives – Conservation – Aggregation – Uniqueness
• Administrative Objectives – Neutrality – Consistency – Impartiality
NR Management Principle
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APNIC
ARIN
LACNIC
RIPE NCC
AfriNIC
ICANN {IANA} ASO
{ Global Policy }
{ Regional policy }
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NR Management Polic{ies}
NRO
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Where are we going?
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• Our strategic goal and objective is to build an organization that will last and continue to serve the community: – Continue to strengthen our critical role in
Number Resources Management and Internet Infrastructure development.
– Continue to Increase our productivity, our financial stability to better serve the community.
– Continue to adjust our structure and services to a very fast changing ecosystem
Key Operations Objectives
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Questions
