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AFRINIC Archive

Welcome to our Archives page. On this page you will find a total of 1232 of our articles broken down into Months and Years.
Policy Archive
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Update of PDP (Draft-3) Archived

Details Proposal Revision History AFRINIC Policy Impact Assessment Details   ID: AFPUB-2021-GEN-002-DRAFT03 Date Submitted: 18 May 2022 Author: read more..

News
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Deprecation of CRYPT and MD5

Authentication mechanisms for a safer WHOIS Database   AFRINIC is currently engaged in several undertakings in line with our commitment to improving the security and accuracy of the WHOIS Datab... read more..

CEO's Monthly Updates
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CEO's Monthly Update - November 2020

Dear Colleagues,   I hope that you are all keeping well. It is that time that I share with you the monthly updates.   AFRINIC Strategic Plan 2021-2023 I am glad to announce the launch o... read more..

News
26895

An Interview with Mr Eddy Kayihura, Chief Executive Officer, AFRINIC

Eddy Kayihura was appointed in the position of the Chief Executive Officer of AFRINIC in November 2019. Ashil Oogarah, AFRINIC’s communications team leader sat down with Mr Kayihura to get his refle read more..

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Call for Volunteers on the Nomination Committee (NomCom) 2021

The AFRINIC Board is required to appoint a Nomination Committee (NomCom) every year, in terms of article 9 of the Bylaws.    The AFRINIC Board is required to appoint a Nomination Com read more..

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11520

Call for Volunteers on the Governance Committee 2021

The AFRINIC Governance Committee advises the AFRINIC Board, AFRINIC Membership and the community on matters of corporate governance. For more information, see <https://afrinic.net/committees/gove read more..

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10472

Call for Volunteers on the ASO AC/NRO NC

The AFRINIC Board hereby calls for volunteers who wish to be considered for appointment to the ASO AC/NRO NC. One of the three AFRINIC representatives in the NRO NC is appointed by the AFRINIC Board,... read more..

Consolidated Policy Manuals
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Consolidated Policy Manual (v1.6 Current)

About the CPM Revision History Abbreviations About the CPM Version 1.6 Click here to view the list of individual policies (pre-CPM) The Consolidated Policy Manual (CPM) is the refer read more..

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22114

AFRINIC Collaborations

On our Way to Building a Stable and Robust Internet in Africa AFRINIC has the mandate to collaborate with its stakeholders to ensure the sustainable growth of a stable, secure and robust Internet in ... read more..

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Error in the System Generated Invoices Sent to Members

On Tuesday 10 November 2020, we sent a system-generated email for the outstanding balances of our membership. We noticed that there was an error in the configuration of the system which picked the 20... read more..

Research Publications
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African nameservers revealed: Characterizing DNS authoritative nameservers

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most critical services for the daily operation of the Internet. It is used to primarily resolve names to IP addresses and vice versa on the Internet through ... read more..

Research Publications
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A first look at the African’s ccTLDs technical environment

Leveraging multiple datasets, we evaluate the current status of African ccTLDs technical environment with regard to best practices. Compared to the top 10 ccTLDs, African ccTLDs appear to have enough ... read more..

Policy Archive
14085

IPv4 Inter-RIR Resource Transfers (Comprehensive Scope) Draft-5 | Archived

Details Proposal Revision History AFRINIC Policy Impact Assessment Details   ID: AFPUB-2019-IPv4-002-DRAFT05 Date Submitted: 27 Oct 2020 Author: read more..

News
15571

PeeringDB Satisfaction Survey

PeeringDB is a freely available database of networks for interconnection data. The database facilitates the global interconnection of networks at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), data centres, and oth... read more..

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11412

2020/11/02 - Announcement of Public Holiday

Please note that Monday, 2 November 2020, is a public holiday in Mauritius. AFRINIC Offices shall be closed and will resume business on Tuesday 3 November 2020. Any urgent issues can be addressed to... read more..

Research Publications
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On Measuring RPKI Relying Parties

In this paper, we introduce a framework to observe RPKI relying parties (i.e., those that fetch RPKI data from the distributed repository) and present insights into this ecosystem for the first t... read more..

Policy Archive
15185

AFRINIC Number Resources Transfer Policy (Draft-1) Archived

Details Proposal Revision History AFRINIC Policy Impact Assessment Details Resource Transfer Policy ID: AFPUB-2020-GEN-006-DRAFT01 Date Submitted: 17 Octob read more..

Policy Archive
14018

General Abuse Contact (Draft-1) | Expired & Archived

Details Proposal Revision History AFRINIC Policy Impact Assessment Details   ID: AFPUB-2020-GEN-005-DRAFT01 Date Submitted: 3 October 2020 Au read more..

Policy Archive
10747

Resource Transfer Policy (Draft-4) | Expired & Archived

Details Proposal Revision History AFRINIC Policy Impact Assessment Details Resource Transfer Policy ID: AFPUB-2019-V4-003-DRAFT04 Date Submitted: 5 October read more..

CEO's Monthly Updates
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CEO's Monthly Update - October 2020

Dear Colleagues,   Warm greetings, I did not provide an update last month as we were in full gear during AIS20. The event brought over 500 delegates around the virtual table to discuss In... read more..

News
20177

The Africa Internet Summit (AIS’20) Online Conference: Behind the Scenes

The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) in collaboration with the Africa Network Operators Group (AfNOG) have proudly concluded their first virtual conference (AIS’20). The event took place v... read more..

Policy Archive
19392

Board Prerogatives on the PDP (Draft-2) - Expired & Archived

Details Proposal Revision History AFRINIC Policy Impact Assessment Details Board Prerogatives on the PDP ID: AFPUB-2020-GEN-004-DRAFT02 Date Submitted: 17 Sept read more..

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20557

DNS Flag Day 2020

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most critical services for the daily functioning of the Internet. It allows names to be resolved into IP addresses and vice versa through a hierarchical syst... read more..

Public Policy Meeting (PPM) Minutes
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AFRINIC-32 | Public Policy Meeting

Day 1 Day 2 Day 1 16 Sep 2020   Agenda Simple PDP Update for the new “Normal” AFPUB-2020-GEN-003-DRAFT01 PDP Working Group (WG) Guidelines and Procedures AFPUB-2020-GEN-002-DRAFT01 read more..

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Register for the AFRINIC Database Working Group Session

The AFRINIC Database Working Group (DBWG) is pleased to invite you to a working session on whois database issues. The session aims to discuss whois database issues and gather ideas and feedback from ... read more..

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10819

Election of new AFRINIC Chair and Vice-Chair

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Subramanian Moonesamy as Chair and Prof. Habib Yousef as Vice-Chair of the AFRINIC Board of Directors during a meeting held on Monday, 21 September read more..

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Community Engagement: Strategic Plan 2021-2023

We are pleased to inform you that we are in the final leg of developing AFRINIC’s Strategic Plan 2021-2023. Please see the final draft here (https://afrinic.net/strategy#2021-2023).   read more..

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AFRINIC Election 2020 Results

Congratulations to all the successful candidates elected to serve in the various capacities. We wish you well as you serve our community and the organisation.   English Français Arab read more..

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Register for the upcoming webinar on 'The Root Server System'

AFRINIC and ICANN partner to bring you an informative webinar on the Root Server System. DNS is crucial in our everyday interactions with most Internet-related applications. The most visible value is... read more..

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The AFRINIC Policy Development Process

For 15 years, the AFRINIC PDP has been developing the policies by which the Internet Number Resources in the AFRINIC service region are managed. AFRINIC is focused on encouraging a diversity of voices... read more..

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