Hey Girl,<br><br>Thanks for correcting your release.. see below highlighted: Instead of spelling out you can just say ICANN/IANA<br><br>bisous<br>ar<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Lillian O. Sharpley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lillian@afrinic.net">lillian@afrinic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">For Immediate Release<br>
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AFRINIC-11, DAKAR, SENEGAL<br>
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The African Network Information Center, AfriNIC, the Regional Internet Registry<br>
for Africa, held its 11th Public Policy Meeting, 21 – 27 November 2009, at the<br>
Radisson Blu Hotel, Dakar, Senegal. The meeting, which was graciously hosted by<br>
l’Agence de Régulation des Télécommunications et des Postes (ARTP) and sponsored<br>
by Espresso, Huawei, Internet Society (ISOC), and Orange, was attended by some<br>
150 delegates representing twenty (20) nations.<br>
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Mr. Ndongo Diao, Directeur General, ARTP, opened the meeting with remarks,<br>
followed by the Keynote Address from Mrs. Aminata Tall, Ministre d'état,<br>
Secrétaire Générale de la Présidence de la République. The programme consisted<br>
of two-days of IPv6 training, workshops on Internet Measurement, DNS Operations,<br>
Mail Abuse, African 4th IPv6 Day, Internet Governance Day, two-days of Plenary<br>
Sessions that included the Public Policy Discussion.<br>
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The industry presentations covered issues related to Access, Security, IPv4<br>
exhaustion and the uptake of IPv6, Internet Governance initiatives, report of<br>
the IGF 2009 event, updates from the I<b>nternet Community for Assigned Names and<br>
Numbers,</b> ISOC, other RIRs, Orange, Huawei, ARTP, Association of African<br>
Universities (AAU), and other representation from academia, government, and the<br>
private sector. On the issue of Security, AfriNIC announced the first AfriNIC<br>
Government Working Group event for Law Enforcement Agencies to be held 25 – 26<br>
January, 2010, Ebene, Mauritius.<br>
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One of the major outcomes of the Public Policy Discussion was the consensus by<br>
the community to endorse the Global Policy proposal for “Allocation of ASN<br>
Blocks to the RIRs by IANA.” Another policy proposal discussed was the 'IPv6<br>
Allocations to Non-Profit Networks', with a consensus being reached that<br>
proposal should be withdrawn, and that the author of the proposal should liaise<br>
with the AfriNIC staff and Board to devise a more viable solution if the main<br>
rational is to have a special discount and category for this category of users.<br>
A third policy proposal, related to 'IPv4 Soft Landing' which define how<br>
AfriNIC should manage its last IPv4 blocks, did not reach consensus during the<br>
meeting and was returned to the Resource Policy Discuss (RPD) mailing list for<br>
further discussion.<br>
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During the meeting, AfriNIC and AAU signed a Memorandum of Understanding,<br>
establishing that AAU via a grant from FRENIA will contribute to the setup fees<br>
and a first-year membership fee of eligible African Academic institutions and<br>
RENs from Africa. This is the second MoU between AfriNIC and AAU to support the<br>
common goal of improving Campus and Research network infrastructure in Africa.<br>
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AfriNIC’s Public Policy meetings are open to anyone and are particularly<br>
relevant to members, ISPs, the Internet community, academia, governments and<br>
regulators. Participation in these meetings will give you tremendous<br>
opportunities to improve your network infrastructure, increase your knowledge on<br>
Internet related issues, networking, and to have your say in policies that<br>
affect future development of the Internet in your region. We are pleased to<br>
announce that AfriNIC’s 12th Public Policy meeting will be held in Kigali,<br>
Rwanda, 23 May - 4 June, 2010 and would like to extend a warm invitation to the<br>
community to attend and participate. Access our website at <a href="http://www.afrinic.net" target="_blank">www.afrinic.net</a> for<br>
additional information.<br>
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<a href="http://www.afrinic.net/af11_press.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.afrinic.net/af11_press.pdf</a><br>
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Contact: Lillian Sharpley<br>
Communications Area Manager<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:press@afrinic.net">press@afrinic.net</a><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Anne-Rachel Inne<br>