AfriNIC Status Update September 2004

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AfriNIC Status UpdateSeptember 2004

• Alan Barrett
• iWeek Meeting,
• Muldersdrift, South Africa,
• 9 September 2004

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Background What's the big idea?

• IP addresses must be unique
• IP addresses are a scarce resource
• Somebody must coordinate them
• AfriNIC will do that in Africa
• Numbers, not names

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Where do IP addresses come from?

• End users from ISP or company IT department
• Small company or small ISP from upstream ISP
• Large ISP from Regional Internet Registry
• Regional registry from global registry (IANA)

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Who does it now?

• Four RIRs
• ARIN North America, and part of Africa
• RIPE-NCC Europe, and part of Africa
• APNIC Asia/Pacific, and islands off Africa
• LACNIC South America and Carribean
• NRO (Number Resource Organisation)
• umbrella body for coordination between RIRs
• ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
  and Numbers)
• MoU between ICANN and NRO (under discussion)

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AfriNIC Proposal

• Create an African regional registry
• Funding model similar to that of other regional
  IP address registries
• RIPE-NCC, ARIN and APNIC allocation activities in
  Africa to be transferred to AfriNIC
• Allocate IP address space, Autonomous System
  numbers, other identifiers
• Maintain databases

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Guiding Principles

• Neutral, non-profit organisation
• Act in long-term best interests of the community
• Manage scarce resources according to widely
  accepted guidelines
• Under control of those that depend on it
• Liaison with IANA, ICANN ASO, other registries,
  other organisations

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Objectives

• Allocation and registration of Internet resources
• Development of procedures and standards
• Education
• Develop public policies where appropriate

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Hosting decision (Kampala, May 2003)

• Administration and Legal Mauritius
• Technical operations South Africa, with backup
  in Egypt
• Training Based in Ghana

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Training at RIPE-NCC (2Q to 4Q 2003)

• Adiel Akplogan and Ernest Byaruhanga each spent 6
  months at RIPE-NCC

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Project Manager

• In October 2003, the Interim Board appointed
  Adiel Akplogan as AfriNIC Project Manager
• Adiel has been responsible for all day to day
  operations since that date

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Technical office set up in South Africa (Feb 2004)

• At CSIR campus near Pretoria
• Financial support from South African Department
  of Communications
• CSIR Campus Bulding 43A - Office A113
• PO Box 395
• Pretoria
• 0001 South Africa
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]

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Mauritius company and office (3 Feb 2004)

• Incorporation In Mauritius
• AfriNIC Ltd
• Reg 49338
• Registered on 3 Feb 2004
• Private Company limited by Guarantee
• In other words, a non-profit organisation
• Office setup Temporary Address
• 2nd Floor, Les Jamalacs Building
• Vieux Conseil Street
• Port-Louis
• Mauritius

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Mauritius Certificate of Incorporation
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Policy Working Group (Feb-March 2004)

• Working group composed of volunteers from the
  community
• Proposed policies for IPv4, IPv6 and ASN
  allocation
• Policies were accepted at AfriNIC 1 public
  meeting
• Policies were ratified by Board after the meeting

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MoU between AfriNIC and NRO (March 2004)

• Defined several milestones
• Funding from NRO to AfriNIC upon meeting defined
  milestones by due date
• All milestones so far have been met

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AfriNIC 1 public meetingDakar, Senegal, May
2004

• First public meeting after formal company
  registration
• New constitution formally approved
• Allocation policies formally approved
• Budget for 2004-2005 formally approved
• Board elected (to replace Interim Board that
  was elected in 2001)

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AfriNIC Board, elected in May 2004

• North Africa (3-year term) Kamal Okba (MA),
  Mokhtar Hamidi (DZ)
• West Africa (3-year term) Pierre Dandjinou (BJ)
  (Chair), Sunday Folayan (NG)
• Southern Africa (2-year term) Alan Barrett (ZA),
  Alan Levin (ZA)
• East Africa (2-year term) Brian Longwe (KE),
  Charles Musisi (UG)
• Central Africa (1-year term) Didier Kasole (CD),
  Pierre M. Kasengedia (CD)
• Indian Ocean (1-year term) Dr. Viv Padayatchy
  (MU), Kenny Yiptong (MU)

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Appointment of Chairman and CEO

• The new Board elected Pierre Dandjinou as
  Chairman
• The new Board appointed Adiel Akplogan as CEO

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AfriNIC Structure
West Africa Pierre Dandjinou (BJ) - Chair
Sunday Folayan (NG) Central Africa Didier
Kasole (CD) Pierre Kasengedia (CD) Indian Ocean
Dr. Viv Padayatchy (MU) Kenny Yiptong (MU)
Southern Africa Alan Barrett (ZA) Alan Levin
(ZA) North Africa Kamal Okba (MA) Mokhtar
Hamidi (DZ) East Africa Brian Longwe (KE)
Charles Musisi (UG)
Business and Admin Assistant Nooriah Woozeer
IP Analyst Engineering Ernest Byaruhanga Adiel
Akplogan
CFO To be appointed
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Fees associated with membership
IPv4
IPv6
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Installation of equipment (Jun-Jul 2004)

• Servers and workstations have been installed at
  the office in Pretoria and at a hosting facility
  in Johannesburg, South Africa

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Co-evaluation with other RIRs (1 Sep 2004)

• Applicants from Africa apply to ARIN, RIPE-NCC or
  APNIC as before
• Application gets forwarded to AfriNIC for a
  decision

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Application for recognition by ICANN (1 Sep 2004)

• AfriNIC has applied for formal recognition by
  ICANN
• Application was submitted on 1 Sep 2004
• Next step is provisional recognition

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NRO recommendation for provisional recognition

• The NRO has written a letter of support (dated 1
  Sep 2004)
• We encourage the ICANN Board to provide
  provisional recognition of AfriNIC as soon as
  possible, but no later than the ICANN meeting
  scheduled for December 2004 in Cape Town.

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

• A region of coverage has been defined for AfriNIC
  operations. It includes the 54 African countries
  including Indian Ocean.

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

• Since 2000 AfriNIC has received support from
  ISPs, LIRs organizations on the continents.
• 30 letters of support from 27 countries
• http//www.afrinic.net/support/
• 13 registered members
• http//www.afrinic.net/membership.htm

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

• AfriNIC is registered as non-governmental and
  non-for-profit organization.
• AfriNIC is governed by its members, who have
  control on its operations by defining policies
  and activities plan.
• AfriNIC has an Independent board of Trustees
  composed of representative from the 6 sub-regions
  of the continent

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

• To keep a bottom-up process for its policy making
  process, a working group has been set up
  (composed of volunteers from the community)
• A policy development process has been set up
• First set of policies has been received and
  passed through the PDP. These were adopted
  during AfriNIC first public policy meeting
• www.afrinic.net/documents.htm

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

• AfriNIC team (Board and staff) is composed of
  experienced people that have already worked and
  managed internet services and are well armed to
  manage all required RIR services.
• Today AfriNIC already has its operational
  infrastructure set up in Pretoria and Mauritius
  including
• A Web server, mail server, ticketing system
• DNS for afrinic.net, afrinic.org (under
  transfer), Internet connection.

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

• AfriNIC fully adheres to global Address
  allocation policies regarding address
  conservation, aggregation and registration.
• These principles are reflected in the IP
  resources (IPv4, IPv6 and ASN) allocation
  policies adopted in Dakar in May 2004.

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

• AfriNIC is now in its transition process from the
  different RIRs serving its future region of
  service. Its short term activity plan is to
  successfully complete the transition plan.
• In the mean time AfriNIC has planned many key
  activities essentially focused on information and
  training of the local community on IP resource
  management.
• AfriNIC in its mission statement also has the
  goal of facilitating Internet development in
  Africa.

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

• AfriNIC funding model is based on two categories
  of fund raising
• Incubation period will be funded mostly by
  Hosting countries and different donors.
• After these 2 years of incubation, AfriNIC will
  be able to fund 100 of its operations by
  membership fees.

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

• AfriNIC has developed a strong record keeping
  policy based on physical documents (paper)
  storage in safe location and electronic data
  regular backup and replication process

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

• AfriNIC has a non-disclosure agreement that will
  be signed with any external entity (employees,
  auditing company and other).
• AfriNIC also provides in its registration service
  agreement a clause for non disclosure of private
  data received from any ISP for processing their
  requests

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AfriNIC and theICANN ICP-2 requirement

• Region of coverage
• Support from the community
• Self governance
• Impartiality
• Technical expertise
• Adherence to Global Address allocation policy
• Activity Plan
• Funding model
• Record Keeping
• Confidentiality

• We are in the last stage of our process to being
  officially recognized as the fifth Regional
  Internet Registry. Our application has been sent
  to ICANN for approval.
• We are almost there and very happy to see that
  more and more stakeholders are joining the
  process.

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AfriNIC Offices

• AfriNIC has its offices set up in South Africa
  (where two staff are working) and Mauritius with
  one staff member.
• Head Quarters
• 2nd Floor, Les Jamalacs Building
• Vieux Conseil Street
• Port-Louis Mauritius
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Operations Center
• CSIR Campus - ISTC - Building 43A
• Meiring Naude Road
• P O Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]

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AfriNIC Web Site and Mailing Lists

• http//www.afrinic.net/
• afrinic-admin_at_afrinic.net
• hostmaster_at_afrinic.net
• Public mailing lists
• afrinic-discuss-request_at_afrinic.net
• http//archives.afrinic.org/afrinic-discuss
• policy-wg-request_at_afrinic.net
• http//archives.afrinic.org/policy-wg