AFRINIC is the Gold Sponsor of the AfPIF 2019 meeting taking place in Mauritius from 20 to 22 August 2019. We will have a dedicated booth for members at the event and will also be participating in the AfPIF programme.

Logan Velvindron from AFRINIC will be making a presentation titled ‘Re-examining Congestion Control’ on Wednesday 21 August at 7.30 UTC. Amreesh Phokeer and Keesun Fokeerah will be conducting tutorials on Internet Routing Registry and RPKI.

AFRINIC will also support and participate in the Formation des Formateurs de la gouvernance de l’Internet 2019 (FFCG Conference) in Burkina Faso on 26-30 August 2019. Arthur Cardinal will be speaking about AFRINIC’s key activities and projects at the meeting.

AFRINIC is also participating in SAFNOG-5 being held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 26-27 August 2019. In addition to giving policy updates, James Chimwa from our Member Services Department will be making a presentation on AFRINIC's Numbering Services.

AFRINIC staff will also conduct consultations during the SAFNOG-5 with the AFRINIC Resource Members on site for organisations planning to get Internet number resources from AFRINIC. The consultations are private and confidential face-to-face interactions between contacts of resource members and AFRINIC staff to discuss issues and respond to any queries or challenges on:

• IP Number resources (IPv4, IPv6, ASN)
• BPKI enrolment and RPKI ROA creation
• Routing Registry
• Reverse DNS/Lame Delegations
• Invoicing and Membership fees
• Any other topic related to IP number resources. For those interested in discussing and resolving any issues related to the topics above, our staff will be at hand to help. Please book your consultation slot by registering at: https://safnog-mt.nix.cz/login

AFRINIC invites you to register for its upcoming IPv6 deployathon session taking place from 10 - 13 September  2019 in Blantyre, Malawi in collaboration with Malawi Internet Service Providers Association.

The IPv6 deployathon is fully focused on the implementation of IPv6 networks through prototyping, building and validation. At the end of the session, through expert guidance, participants will have moved their networks one clearly measurable step forward towards IPv6 deployment.

If you want to join like-minded network and systems engineers who run networks and who actually want to deploy IPv6, then request an invitation to attend this session at: https://vox.afrinic.net/53651?lang=en  

Places are limited to 30 participants, so please register as soon as possible. 

There will be a screening process and selected candidates will be notified two weeks prior to the start of the session. 

We look forward to receiving your application.

If you are an IXP - this might be of interest to you. Usually, it is considered bad practice to allow your Peering LAN prefixes to be announced/re-distributed by your peers. One way to prevent this to happen is to create an AS0 ROA (see figure 1) with your Peering LAN prefix. AFRINIC highly recommends that African IXPs create this “special” ROA through the MyAFRINIC RPKI interface. Hint: It is important to keep the max-length equal to your prefix length to allow for more specifics. 

Figure 1. Create an AS0 ROA on MyAFRINIC

Read more: ASO Support in AFRINIC RPKI