[AfrICANN-discuss] Post AfriNIC-11 Press Release

[Anne-Rachel Inné]

Hey Girl,

Thanks for correcting your release.. see below highlighted: Instead of
spelling out you can just say ICANN/IANA

bisous
ar

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Lillian O. Sharpley
<lillian at afrinic.net>wrote:

> For Immediate Release
>
>
> AFRINIC-11, DAKAR, SENEGAL
>
> The African Network Information Center, AfriNIC, the Regional Internet
> Registry
> for Africa, held its 11th Public Policy Meeting, 21 – 27 November 2009, at
> the
> Radisson Blu Hotel, Dakar, Senegal.  The meeting, which was graciously
> hosted by
> l’Agence de Régulation des Télécommunications et des Postes (ARTP) and
> sponsored
> by Espresso, Huawei, Internet Society (ISOC), and Orange, was attended by
> some
> 150 delegates representing twenty (20) nations.
>
> Mr. Ndongo Diao, Directeur General, ARTP, opened the meeting with remarks,
> followed by the Keynote Address from Mrs. Aminata Tall, Ministre d'état,
> Secrétaire Générale de la Présidence de la République. The programme
> consisted
> of two-days of IPv6 training, workshops on Internet Measurement, DNS
> Operations,
> Mail Abuse, African 4th IPv6 Day, Internet Governance Day, two-days of
> Plenary
> Sessions that included the Public Policy Discussion.
>
> The industry presentations covered issues related to Access, Security, IPv4
> exhaustion and the uptake of IPv6, Internet Governance initiatives, report
> of
> the IGF 2009 event, updates from the I*nternet Community for Assigned
> Names and
> Numbers,* ISOC, other RIRs, Orange, Huawei, ARTP, Association of African
> Universities (AAU), and other representation from academia, government, and
> the
> private sector. On the issue of Security, AfriNIC announced the first
> AfriNIC
> Government Working Group event for Law Enforcement Agencies to be held 25 –
> 26
> January, 2010, Ebene, Mauritius.
>
> One of the major outcomes of the Public Policy Discussion was the consensus
> by
> the community to endorse the Global Policy proposal for “Allocation of ASN
> Blocks to the RIRs by IANA.” Another policy proposal discussed was the
> 'IPv6
> Allocations to Non-Profit Networks', with a consensus being reached that
> proposal should be withdrawn, and that the author of the proposal should
> liaise
> with the AfriNIC staff and Board to devise a more viable solution if the
> main
> rational is to have a special discount and category for this category of
> users.
>  A third policy proposal, related to 'IPv4 Soft Landing' which define how
> AfriNIC should manage its last IPv4 blocks, did not reach consensus during
> the
> meeting and was returned to the Resource Policy Discuss (RPD) mailing list
> for
> further discussion.
>
> During the meeting, AfriNIC and AAU signed a Memorandum of Understanding,
> establishing that AAU via a grant from FRENIA will contribute to the setup
> fees
> and a first-year membership fee of eligible African Academic institutions
> and
> RENs from Africa.  This is the second MoU between AfriNIC and AAU to
> support the
> common goal of improving Campus and Research network infrastructure in
> Africa.
>
> AfriNIC’s Public Policy meetings are open to anyone and are particularly
> relevant to members, ISPs, the Internet community, academia, governments
> and
> regulators. Participation in these meetings will give you tremendous
> opportunities to improve your network infrastructure, increase your
> knowledge on
> Internet related issues, networking, and to have your say in policies that
> affect future development of the Internet in your region. We are pleased to
> announce that AfriNIC’s 12th Public Policy meeting will be held in Kigali,
> Rwanda, 23 May - 4 June, 2010 and would like to extend a warm invitation to
> the
> community to attend and participate. Access our website at www.afrinic.netfor
> additional information.
>
> http://www.afrinic.net/af11_press.pdf
>
> Contact: Lillian Sharpley
> Communications Area Manager
> Email: press at afrinic.net
>
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Anne-Rachel Inne
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