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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LACNIC  

RIPE  NCC  

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ICANN  {IANA}  ASO  

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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