From ernest at afrinic.net Fri Jan 21 18:53:25 2005 From: ernest at afrinic.net (Ernest Byaruhanga) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Test Message-ID: <41F13385.3040103@afrinic.net> Test From e.byaru at gmail.com Fri Jan 21 19:06:39 2005 From: e.byaru at gmail.com (Ernest Byaruhanga) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] test2 Message-ID: <41F1369F.7070904@gmail.com> test e From adiel at afrinic.net Fri Jan 21 19:12:15 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AFRINIC II Meeting in Maputo Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050121191135.05813290@pop.mail.yahoo.fr> Dear colleagues, As resolved during its last board meeting held in Cape Town in December 2004, AfriNIC, the emerging African Internet Numbers' Registry for Africa and Indian Ocean will have two meetings this year. One of them, as required by our bylaws, will also host AfriNIC AGM. The first meeting is scheduled back to back with AFNOG 2005 from December 26th to 27th in Maputo (Mozambique). The afternoon of the 27th will be dedicated to AfriNIC AGM. Agenda and details about this meeting will follow shortly. A second meeting for this year is scheduled between the end of September and the first week of October 2005. It is proposed to have it in Northern Africa. The exact location and date will be announced later. We are looking forward seeing you in Maputo. Kind regards Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net From adiel at afrinic.net Fri Jan 21 19:52:24 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AFRINIC II Meeting in Maputo In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050121191135.05813290@pop.mail.yahoo.fr> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050121191135.05813290@pop.mail.yahoo.fr> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050121195131.0321d518@207.44.238.73> At 19:12 21/01/2005 +0200, you wrote: >Dear colleagues, > >As resolved during its last board meeting held in Cape >Town in December 2004, AfriNIC, the emerging African >Internet Numbers' Registry for Africa and Indian Ocean >will have two meetings this year. One of them, as >required by our bylaws, will also host AfriNIC AGM. > >The first meeting is scheduled back to back with AFNOG >2005 from December 26th to 27th in Maputo (Mozambique). ^^^^^^^^ should be April 26th to 27th. - a. From adiel at afrinic.net Fri Jan 21 19:54:33 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC II - Maputo: April 26th and 27th 2005 Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050121195233.0350ea00@pop.mail.yahoo.fr> [appologies for multiple posting] Dear colleagues, As resolved during its last board meeting held in Cape Town in December 2004, AfriNIC, the emerging African Internet Numbers' Registry for Africa and Indian Ocean will have two meetings this year. One of them, as required by our bylaws, will also host AfriNIC AGM. The first meeting is scheduled back to back with AFNOG 2005 from April 26th to 27th in Maputo (Mozambique). The afternoon of the 27th will be dedicated to AfriNIC AGM. Agenda and details about this meeting will follow shortly. A second meeting for this year is scheduled between the end of September and the first week of October 2005. It is proposed to have it in Northern Africa. The exact location and date will be announced later. We are looking forward seeing you in Maputo. Kind regards Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net _______________________________________________________________________ Adiel A. AKPLOGAN Tel. +27 (0)12 841 2894 CEO - AfriNIC Fax: +27 (0)12 841 3203 adiel@afrinic.net www.afrinic.net From TAmoussougbo at uneca.org Sat Jan 22 17:50:08 2005 From: TAmoussougbo at uneca.org (Thierry Amoussougbo) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] test2 In-Reply-To: <41F1369F.7070904@gmail.com> Message-ID: Received Thierry H. Amoussougbo Regional Adviser Development Information Services Division United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Tel: 251 1 511167 ext 33053 Fax: 251 1 510512 E-mail : tamoussougbo@uneca.org From William at zanet.co.za Fri Jan 21 19:37:17 2005 From: William at zanet.co.za (William Stucke) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [AfriNIC-discuss] Test In-Reply-To: <41F13385.3040103@afrinic.net> Message-ID: Working ;-) Kind regards, William Stucke ZAnet Internet Services (Pty) Ltd +27 11 465 0700 William@zanet.co.za -----Original Message----- From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net]On Behalf Of Ernest Byaruhanga Sent: 21 January 2005 18:53 To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Test Test _______________________________________________ afrinic-discuss mailing list afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From sfolayan at skannet.com.ng Tue Jan 25 01:52:29 2005 From: sfolayan at skannet.com.ng (Sunday Folayan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Invitation to ICANN At-Large (Individual Internet User Community) Workshop Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.0.20050125005201.02f9a020@mail.skannet.com> [Apologies for cross-posting, please give this the widest circulation possible ... SF] 21 January 2005 ICANN At-Large Africa Region Coordination Office P.O Box AN-19782 Accra-North Invitation to ICANN At-Large (Individual Internet User Community) Workshop Dear Sir/Madam: You, and members of your organization, are cordially invited to participate in the ICANN At-Large (Internet User Community) Workshop, which is being held in Accra, Ghana on 1st February 2005 in conjunction with the Africa Regional Preparatory Conference for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers? (ICANN?s) At-Large Advisory Committee has organized this outreach workshop to promote effective participation of Africa?s individual Internet user groups and civil society organizations in the governing of the Internet. The workshop will feature international and regional experts, and audience discussions, addressing a range of issues critical to the African user community, including: ? Technical and infrastructure advances that affect how individuals in Africa use the Internet; ? How resources are allocated to ensure the Internet?s stability and security; ? How ICANN, which is responsible for coordinating the global Internet?s systems of domain names and numeric addresses, carries out its functions; ? How Internet users and other stakeholders worldwide are involved in ICANN; ? How Africa?s Internet user groups and civil society organizations can get involved in ICANN and in many other global ICT/Internet decision making fora; and ? Other issues that participants may consider crucial to Internet adoption and penetration in Africa. The Workshop will be held at the Accra International Conference Center, Conference Room 1 (CR1), on Tuesday, 1 February 2005, from 2:00 pm ? 6:00 pm. Venue information is available online at <www.wsisaccra2005.gov.gh/>. Admission is free and no prior registration is required. The Workshop programme is attached. To learn more about ICANN and its activities, including the work of the At-Large (individual Internet user community), visit us online at <www.alac.icann.org>. More information on At-Large activities of the African region can be found at <www.afralo.org>. We also will have information and individuals available to answer your questions at the ICANN/At-Large booth at the WSIS Conference Exhibition, 31 January ? 4 February at the Accra International Conference Center. Please email questions to . We look forward to seeing you and to your active participation in the deliberations of the Workshop. Best regards Pierre Dandjinou, Clement Dzidonu, and Sunday Folayan African Region Members of the ICANN At-Large Advisory Committee ______________________________________ ICANN At-Large (Individual Internet User Community) Workshop 2:00 pm ? 6:00 pm, Tuesday, 1st February 2005 Accra International Conference Center, Conference Room 1 (CR1) Programme Session 1: The Internet: Technology and the Resources Chairman: Professor Francis Allotey, Former Chairman, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Director General, Institute of Mathematical Science and Senior Research Fellow of INIIT 2.00 ? 2.05 pm: Chairman?s Opening Remarks 2.05 ? 2.20 pm: Topic: The Internet as a Global Communications Delivery Platform: The Basics Speaker: Mouhamet Diop, Member, ICANN Board 2.20 ? 2.50 pm: Topic: The Fundamentals of the Domain Name System (DNS): Allocating and Managing the Resources of the Internet ? The Numbers and the Names Speakers: Axel Pawlik, RIPE: The Role of the Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) ? The Numbers (The IP Addresses) William Tevie, Board Member of GhNIC: The Role of the National Information Centers (NICs) ? The Names (The Domain Names) 2.50 ? 3.05 pm: Topic: A Briefing on ICANN- What it Does and its Role in the Internet Space Speaker: Kierran Baker, General Manager, Communications and Public Participation, ICANN 3.05 ? 3.20 pm: Discussion 3.20 ? 3.45 pm: Break Session 2: Facilitating Effective Participation in the Governing of the Internet: Defining and Enhancing the Role of the At-Large ? The Internet User Community Chairman: Professor Samuel Agyepong, Vice Chancellor, Methodist University of Ghana and Former Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Coast and Board Member Africa Virtual University 3.45 ? 3.50 pm: Chairman?s Opening Remarks 3.50 ? 4.05: Topic: Governing the Internet: Making the Case and Setting the Scene Speaker: Dr. Nii Narku Quaynor, Former ICANN Board Member, Chairman of the GhNIC Board and Direct, Enterprise Africa 4.05: - 4.20 pm: Topic: Enhancing Africa?s Participation in the Global ICT/Internet Policy and Decision Making Fora and the Wider Internet Governance Space and Process Speaker: Professor Clement Dzidonu, Vice Chairman, ALAC ? The At-Large Advisory Committee of ICANN, President, Global Village University (GVU) 4.20 ? 4.35 pm: Topic: ICANN At Large-Promoting Effective Participation in the ICANN Process: Tracing the History and Explaining the Proposed Internet User Community Participatory Structure Speaker: Pierre Dandjinou, Member, ALAC and Chairman AfriNIC Board of Trustees 4.35 - 4.50 pm: Topic: Becoming an At-Large Structure (ALS): The Process and the Modalities Speaker: Sunday Folayan: Member, ALAC; Member, AfriNIC Board 4.50 ? 5.20 pm: Topic: Promoting Effective Participation -The Way the Internet User Community Sees It; Contributions from Internet User Community Organizations and Prospective At-Large Structures on How to Promote Effective Public Participation in the ICANN Process and Other National, Regional and Global Internet Governance Organizations and Institutions Speakers: Leopold Armah, Africa Youth Initiative (AYI) Albert Opoku Fokuo, Valley View University Computer Science Association Emmanuel Laryea, Association of Computer Instructor (ACI) Representative from an Accredited African At-Large Structure 5.20 ? 5.50: Open Microphone Contributions and Discussion 5.50 ? 6.00: Chairman?s Summary and Closing Remarks 6.00: End of Workshop --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday A Folayan General Data Engineering Services [SKANNET] 18b Oshin Road, Kongi Bodija PO Box 29460 Secretariat PO Ibadan - Nigeria Phone: +234 - 2- 8105156 Fax: +234 - 2 - 8105156 x 122 Email: sfolayan@skannet.com.ng .....In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In recognition of the various projects already looking at establishing key infrastructure in and around Africa; ? In recognition of gaps both in funding as well as scope of coverage of these projects; ? In recognition of the fact that even these existing projects barely scratch the surface of the dire need for reliable, accessible and high capacity Africa infrastructure; ? In recognition of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and action plan arising thereof; ? In recognition of many African countries? commitment to embrace Information Communications Technology as a key component of national development plans; ? In recognition of the concerns regarding African infrastructure that have been expressed by the private sector, civil society, government and donors. The African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA, www.afrispa.org) makes the following recommendations as action items from the Accra WSIS Prepcom; ? A regional multi-stakeholder co-ordination body be mandated to co-ordinate and ensure collaboration among the numerous existing projects in Africa under the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD); ? High priority should be given to the development and financing of ICT Infrastructure (fiber optic) within and around Africa in an Open Access Model in order to ensure equal opportunity in ownership and access. For this to happen we request that: - 1. Governments create a policy environment that ensures nationwide and cross-border connectivity. 2. Regulators adopt an open and transparent licensing and regulatory regime that propels the access to and building of ICT infrastructure. 3. The private sector participates in the technological dynamics of the development and also provides hard investment. 4. Civil society creates interest in consumers to demand and ensure service delivery quality and return for money. 5. Donors support this development by providing and facilitating access to soft financing and expertise where necessary for PASSIVE infrastructure. 6. Finally, that all the stakeholders above subscribe to the horizontal layering of the communication system in the manner of physical layer (infrastructure), followed by the logical layer, applications layer, content layer etc. ? Concessions similar to those granted for other types of major infrastructure projects (e.g. roads) should be extended towards communications projects; ? Establishment of a suitable special purpose vehicle that could provide financial instruments for financing based on a Public/Private Partnership (PPP) model; ? Internet eXchange Points be established and linked on a city-by-city, country-by-country and region-by-region basis, building towards an African backbone. ? Government should reduce drastically taxation on ICT infrastructure projects as well as providing other concessions. About AfrISPA The African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA, www.afrispa.org) is a regional non-profit trade corporation representing the interest of African ISPAs and ISPs with a focus on building Internet Infrastructure. We uphold the following objectives; 1. To provide industry perspective on policy formulation and regulation as it relates to the Internet industry and to act as an interface with Governmental bodies and the public at large. 2. To develop policies and positions in the best interest of the Members and protect and promote these interests in regional and International Fora. 3. To promote the development of key Internet Infrastructure on the Continent. 4. To promote the development of a free and open telecommunications market. 5. To facilitate the establishment of national ISP Associations in Africa and to provide common services to them. 6. To provide and promote educational opportunities that will enhance and empower technical and policy understanding of the Internet. 7. To build, maintain, and publish relevant industry data for Members. AfrISPA is currently made up of ISPA SA, GISPA Ghana, TESPOK Kenya, FAIR Mauritius, UIXP Uganda, ISPAN Nigeria, TISPA Tanzania, ISPA DR Congo and other ISPs within Africa. -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Mail: eric@afrispa.org Web: www.afrispa.org Handle: eosiakwan ICQ: 164125857 Pmb 208, Accra-North 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North, BusyInternet Facility Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html "Tomorrow Now" -- From eric at afrispa.org Thu Feb 3 11:17:34 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Urgent; AfrISPA Press Conference TODAY at 1200 GMT Message-ID: <200502031117.AA29098052@afrispa.org> Dear All, This is to invite you to an urgent AfrISPA Press Conference today the 3rd of Febuary 2005 at 1200GMT at the Press Centre of the Accra International Conference Centre (please ask for directions). At this Press briefing AfrISPA is going to issue an official position on the development and financing of African ICT Infrastructure which we propose should be given high priority on the financing of ICT4D within the action items of the WSIS Process. The African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA, www.afrispa.org) is a non-profit regional trade corporation that represent the interest of Internet Service Providers with a focus to develop Internet infrastructure in Africa. Incorporated in Mauritius, AfrISPA has a distributed organisational and office structure with the Chairman, Mr. William Stucke in South Africa, the Secretary, Mr. Eric Osiakwan in Ghana, the Treasurer, Mr. Viv Padayatchy in Mauritius, the General Manager, Mr. Brain Longwe in Kenya and the Francophone Representative Mr. Didier Kasole in DR Congo. It is overseen by a Board whose representation is from member ISPAs. -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Mail: eric@afrispa.org Web: www.afrispa.org Handle: eosiakwan ICQ: 164125857 Pmb 208, Accra-North 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North, BusyInternet Facility Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html "Tomorrow Now" -- From adiel at afrinic.net Wed Feb 16 21:14:29 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC transition follow up. Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050213153221.061ee3b8@mail.afrinic.net> Dear colleagues, As you may have known, AfriNIC entered a transition process with all the three Regional Internet Registries serving the Africa region a few months ago. This process brought us to the co-evaluation of requests coming from Africa. During that phase (which started in September 2004), we have evaluated more than 400 requests coming from African ISPs and LIRs for IP allocations/assignments and ASNs. We are now in preparation to move to the next step of the transition by starting the PHASE II. http://www.afrinic.net/transition-documents/Transition%20Plan_v03_Dec2004-001.pdf This phase is the last one before AfriNIC gets final recognition from ICANN and will start on February 21st. What will this imply? 1. Requests from Africa will be sent using unified request templates available at: http://www.afrinic.net/documents.htm 2. All requests must be sent directly via email to hostmaster@afrinic.net. The AfriNIC IP analyst team will then evaluate the requests and if needed, communicate directly with the requestor. 3. For RIPE NCC region, the LIR portal will be disabled for African LIRs. 4. All requests sent to APNIC, ARIN or RIPE NCC hostmasters will be redirected to AfriNIC hostmasters. 5. From February 22, AfriNIC WHOIS will be online: whois.afrinic.net. Documentation about AfriNIC database can be found online at: http://www.afrinic.net/documents.htm 6. For more information about the impact of these changes to your actual registry, please look at: RIPE NCC: http://www.ripe.net/info/resource-admin/afrinic/ ARIN: http://www.arin.net/library/internet_info/afrinic_transition.html APNIC: Available soon 7. New LIRs: all new members will have to fill the membership form available on the AfriNIC web site at: http://www.afrinic.net/documents/membership/affrm-ma200501.pdf and send it back by fax to: +230 466 6758. An on line version of the form will be available shortly. AfriNIC will directly bill new members according to the fee schedule adopted by members in the May 2004 meeting in Dakar. The fee schedule is available on the documents page on the AfriNIC website. This step is a very important one for us and for our community. For any inquiry about AfriNIC or the transition process, please feel free to contact us at transition@afrinic.net or by phone on +230 466 66 16 (from 9:00am to 6:00pm local time ? UTC+4). Kind regards. Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net From adiel at afrinic.net Thu Feb 17 18:27:56 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC Elections Processes Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050211113606.034d28d0@mail.afrinic.net> Dear colleagues, Find bellow a drafted updated Election process in AfriNIC region for comment. Comment should be sent directly to: election-comments@afrinic.net Comments period is opened until February 24th. Kind regards. Adiel A. Akplogan. 8<---------------------------------------------------------------->8 ------------------------------------------------------------------- AfriNIC Board members and ASO EC representatives election process: ------------------------------------------------------------------- According to Section 17.5 of AfriNIC bylaws, and in result of the first board Election held in April 2004, this year two seats (two regions) will be open for renewal. Representatives from Central Africa and Indian Ocean will be elected for three year terms (2005-2008). For the purpose of this election and to refine and formalize the board election process in the AfriNIC region, we have put together the following proposal. This proposal is a draft and open for comments until February 15th. At the same time, we are calling for two volunteers to seat at the election committee. If you are interested, please send a mail to elections@afrinic.org before April 16th. Board Election: -------------- Preamble: This document defines the process to be followed by AfriNIC to conduct a renewal of its elected Board of Directors. It doesn't supersede the Bylaws and should be consistent with the bylaws in all aspects. 1 - Who is elected: All regular open positions in the board are for the primary and alternate position (Section 17.11 and 17.18). 2 - Seats: The board seats are numbered according to a statistic of membership per sub-region in 2004 prior to the very first election. This numbering will be maintained for all upcoming renewals. Seats 1 and 2, from Northern Africa and Western Africa respectively; Seats 3 and 4, from Southern Africa and Eastern Africa respectively; Seats 5 and 6, from Indian Ocean and Central Africa respectively. To comply with section 17.15 of the bylaws, the first election was conducted with different terms for the pairs as follows: a) for 3-year terms (2004-2007): Seat 1 and 2 (primary and alternate) b) for 2-year terms (2004-2006): Seat 3 and 4 (primary and alternate) c) for 1-year terms (2004-2005): Seat 5 and 6 (primary and alternate) E.g: In 2005 only seat 5 & 6 will be renewed for the regular three year period and we will have at the end of 2006 election terms as follows: seat Region Elected Up to 1 North Africa 2004 2007 2 West Africa 2004 2007 3 Southern Africa 2006 2009 4 Eastern Africa 2006 2009 5 Indian Ocea 2005 2008 6 Central Africa 2005 2008 3 - Election Committee: There should be an Election Committee (ECom) to drive the whole election process. It has to be appointed at least 90 days before the election. The committee will be composed of: o 1 Member appointed by the board (the CEO or one elected from the board - From an non-open seat) o 2 Member volunteers from the community (from two different regions). The ECom members shall elect among themselves a Chair. The committee should report to the community. 4 - Who can vote: Only organizations meeting the following criteria are able to vote: a - Any formal(*) member of AfriNIC. b - Any already established LIR/ISP operating with ARIN or RIPE NCC and has signed AfriNIC RSA (reg-ID and Member ID required) c - Candidates for opened positions. d - Proxies dully approved at least 24 hours by the CEO. (*) formal members: Members who have filled the AfriNIC membership form and are financially up to date in AfriNIC accounting books. Information about AfriNIC membership should be available online at least 7 days before the AGM. *** Proxy: If an organization is not able to send a representative to attend an AGM, it can give its rights to vote to a Proxy according to the AfriNIC bylaws (section 15), by filling the proxy form that can be found at: http://www.afrinic.org/documents/aflgl-pxy200404-001.pdf 5 - Time lines: The election Process will be run with the following time lines: Election-70 days: Call for volunteer to seat in the ECom. -60 days: Announcement of Election committee members -60 days: Opening of the candidacy/nomination period. -45 days: Close of Nomination period * -40 days: Review of nomination, contacting nominees for more details if needed -30 days: Official announcement of Candidate by the Election Committee President and opening of Public comment period -7 days: Close of public comments Election day: election supervised by the ECom Election Day: Announcement of election Result by the ECom President. First board meeting after the election: Elected candidates will take seats. 6 - Nomination and Candidacy must be submitted to board-elections@afrinic.org with the following information: ---------- Full name: Organization (or affiliation): Physical address: e-mail address: Phone number: Fax number: Country and sub-region: Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 500 words): ** You may want to add a picture (it will appear in your details) -8<------------------->8- -------------------------- ASO AC and NRO NC election -------------------------- 1 - Who is elected: AfriNIc as a Regional registry has to select 3 representatives to the ICANN ASO EC (the Address Support Organisation - Executive Committee) [Session 2.a of ASO MoU]. According to the MoU each has to be selected in an open process for a 3 year period. The first representatives of the RIR must be elected for a staggered term of 1, 2, 3 years [Section 2.b]. With the new NRO/ASO MoU signed between the NRO and ICANN, the ASO EC members will be composed of the NRO NC members (NRO Name Council). but the NRO MoU states that the NRO NC should be composed of three representatives from eachRIR as follows: 1 member appointed by the board 2 members elected by the community For this first process, we are suggesting that AfriNIC follows the NRO NC member nomination scheme. This mean only two persons will be elected with staggered terms (for the first elected) of 2 and 3 years, while the first representative appointed by the board will be appointed for one year term. 2 - Seats: There will be three seats to be filled by AfriNIC in the ASO EC. First elected representative terms will be determined by the total number of votes collected by the two first nominees after the vote is cast. We will then have: First: 3 years term (2005-2008) Second: 2 years term (2005-2007) and Third: 1 year term (2005-2006) appointed by the board 3 - Election Committee: We don't see the need to have an ECom for ASO EC representative election as this election is opened to anybody and anybody can vote. But if requested or needed, this role can be fulfill by the Board Ecom too as soon as in place. 4 - Who can vote: Any body within the AfriNIC service region can vote for ASO EC representative. The election will be held during one of the public Policy meeting Proxy: For ASO EC member their is no need for proxy. 5 - Time lines: The election Process will be run with the following time lines: Election-60 days: Announcement of the candidacy/nomination period. -45 days: Close of Nomination period -45 days: Review of nomination, contacting nominees for more details if needed -40 days: Official announcement of Candidates by the Election Committee President and opening of Public comment period -7 days: End of public comment period -7 days: Review and update of Nominees list. Election day: election Election Day: Announcement of election Results the CEO. First ASO EC meeting after the election: Elected candidates will take seats [applicable only for the first election] 6 - Nomination and Candidacy must be submitted to aso-ec-elections@afrinic.org with the following information: ---------- Full name: Organization (or affiliation): Physical address: e-mail address: Phone number: Fax number: Country: Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 500 words): ** You may want to add a picture (it will appear in your details) ----------- - a. -------------- next part -------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- AfriNIC Board members and ASO EC representatives election process: | ------------------------------------------------------------------- According to Section 17.5 of AfriNIC bylaws, and in result of the first board Election held in April 2004, this year two seats (two regions) will be open for renewal. Representatives from Central Africa and Indian Ocean will be elected for three year terms (2005-2008). For the purpose of this election and to refine and formalize the board election process in the AfriNIC region, we have put together the following proposal. This proposal is a draft and open for comments until February 15th. At the same time, we are calling for two volunteers to seat at the election committee. If you are interested, please send a mail to elections@afrinic.org before April 16th. Board Election: -------------- Preamble: This document defines the process to be followed by AfriNIC to conduct a renewal of its elected Board of Directors. It doesn't supersede the Bylaws and should be consistent with the bylaws in all aspects. 1 - Who is elected: All regular open positions in the board are for the primary and alternate position (Section 17.11 and 17.18). 2 - Seats: The board seats are numbered according to a statistic of membership per sub-region in 2004 prior to the very first election. This numbering will be maintained for all upcoming renewals. Seats 1 and 2, from Northern Africa and Western Africa respectively; Seats 3 and 4, from Southern Africa and Eastern Africa respectively; Seats 5 and 6, from Indian Ocean and Central Africa respectively. To comply with section 17.15 of the bylaws, the first election was conducted with different terms for the pairs as follows: a) for 3-year terms (2004-2007): Seat 1 and 2 (primary and alternate) b) for 2-year terms (2004-2006): Seat 3 and 4 (primary and alternate) c) for 1-year terms (2004-2005): Seat 5 and 6 (primary and alternate) E.g: In 2005 only seat 5 & 6 will be renewed for the regular three year period and we will have at the end of 2006 election terms as follows: seat Region Elected Up to 1 North Africa 2004 2007 2 West Africa 2004 2007 3 Southern Africa 2006 2009 4 Eastern Africa 2006 2009 5 Indian Ocea 2005 2008 6 Central Africa 2005 2008 3 - Election Committee: There should be an Election Committee (ECom) to drive the whole election process. It has to be appointed at least 90 days before the election. The committee will be composed of: o 1 Member appointed by the board (the CEO or one elected from the board - From an non-open seat) o 2 Member volunteers from the community (from two different regions). The ECom members shall elect among themselves a Chair. The committee should report to the community. 4 - Who can vote: Only organizations meeting the following criteria are able to vote: a - Any formal(*) member of AfriNIC. b - Any already established LIR/ISP operating with ARIN or RIPE NCC and has signed AfriNIC RSA (reg-ID and Member ID required) c - Candidates for opened positions. d - Proxies dully approved at least 24 hours by the CEO. (*) formal members: Members who have filled the AfriNIC membership form and are financially up to date in AfriNIC accounting books. Information about AfriNIC membership should be available online at least 7 days before the AGM. *** Proxy: If an organization is not able to send a representative to attend an AGM, it can give its rights to vote to a Proxy according to the AfriNIC bylaws (section 15), by filling the proxy form that can be found at: http://www.afrinic.org/documents/aflgl-pxy200404-001.pdf 5 - Time lines: The election Process will be run with the following time lines: Election-70 days: Call for volunteer to seat in the ECom. -60 days: Announcement of Election committee members -60 days: Opening of the candidacy/nomination period. -45 days: Close of Nomination period * -40 days: Review of nomination, contacting nominees for more details if needed -30 days: Official announcement of Candidate by the Election Committee President and opening of Public comment period -7 days: Close of public comments Election day: election supervised by the ECom Election Day: Announcement of election Result by the ECom President. First board meeting after the election: Elected candidates will take seats. 6 - Nomination and Candidacy must be submitted to board-elections@afrinic.org with the following information: ---------- Full name: Organization (or affiliation): Physical address: e-mail address: Phone number: Fax number: Country and sub-region: Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 300 words): ** You may want to add a picture (it will appear in your details) -8<------------------->8- -------------------------- ASO AC and NRO NC election -------------------------- 1 - Who is elected: AfriNIc as a Regional registry has to select 3 representatives to the ICANN ASO EC (the Address Support Organisation - Executive Committee) [Session 2.a of ASO MoU]. According to the MoU each has to be selected in an open process for a 3 year period. The first representatives of the RIR must be elected for a staggered term of 1, 2, 3 years [Section 2.b]. With the new NRO/ASO MoU signed between the NRO and ICANN, the ASO EC members will be composed of the NRO NC members (NRO Name Council). but the NRO MoU states that the NRO NC should be composed of three representatives from eachRIR as follows: 1 member appointed by the board 2 members elected by the community For this first process, we are suggesting that AfriNIC follows the NRO NC member nomination scheme. This mean only two persons will be elected with staggered terms (for the first elected) of 2 and 3 years, while the first representative appointed by the board will be appointed for one year term. 2 - Seats: There will be three seats to be filled by AfriNIC in the ASO EC. First elected representative terms will be determined by the total number of votes collected by the two first nominees after the vote is cast. We will then have: First: 3 years term (2005-2008) Second: 2 years term (2005-2007) and Third: 1 year term (2005-2006) appointed by the board 3 - Election Committee: We don't see the need to have an ECom for ASO EC representative election as this election is opened to anybody and anybody can vote. But if requested or needed, this role can be fulfill by the Board Ecom too as soon as in place. 4 - Who can vote: Any body within the AfriNIC service region can vote for ASO EC representative. The election will be held during one of the public Policy meeting Proxy: For ASO EC member their is no need for proxy. 5 - Time lines: The election Process will be run with the following time lines: Election-60 days: Announcement of the candidacy/nomination period. -45 days: Close of Nomination period -45 days: Review of nomination, contacting nominees for more details if needed -40 days: Official announcement of Candidates by the Election Committee President and opening of Public comment period -7 days: End of public comment period -7 days: Review and update of Nominees list. Election day: election Election Day: Announcement of election Results the CEO. First ASO EC meeting after the election: Elected candidates will take seats [applicable only for the first election] 6 - Nomination and Candidacy must be submitted to aso-ec-elections@afrinic.org with the following information: ---------- Full name: Organization (or affiliation): Physical address: e-mail address: Phone number: Fax number: Country: Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 300 words): ** You may want to add a picture (it will appear in your details) ----------- From adiel at afrinic.net Wed Feb 23 18:58:25 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223185443.0532f870@mail.afrinic.net> Dear colleagues, As announced a few days ago, with effect from February 22nd, AfriNIC is moving a step ahead in its transition process. We have effectively started PHASE II of the transition - operating as a full RIR with a second opinion from other RIRs - Consequently, our whois server is online and all resource requests must be sent directly to hostmaster@afrinic.net. You must use the various templates available at: http://www.afrinic.net/documentation.htm#templates At this point, we do not have something similar to the 'LIR portal' (RIPE NCC) or 'MyAPNIC' (APNIC). All updates must be done through our e-mail interface. Please find the necessary information under the Database and Registration Services section of our web site (www.afrinic.net). Further more, public information about registration in the AfriNIC service region is now provided by whois.afrinic.net (port 43). You can query the server using any regular whois client. To have access to some advanced features, you may need to use the RIPE NCC whois client which can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/. A web interface for whois queries will be online soon. We will be happy to answer any questions from you regarding this process. Please send your questions to transition@afrinic.net. Kind regards. Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net From ntegeb at one2net.co.ug Wed Feb 23 20:48:22 2005 From: ntegeb at one2net.co.ug (Badru Ntege) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223185443.0532f870@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <200502231848.j1NImSlK028840@ns1.afrinic.net> Adiel Congratulations on all the good work. Can we have an official press release that we can have everyone distribute in their respective home countries to make sure that this gets it's maximum exposure. We need to get out of the techie community into the common language to make it headline news. -----Original Message----- From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Adiel A. AKPLOGAN Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:58 PM To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! Dear colleagues, As announced a few days ago, with effect from February 22nd, AfriNIC is moving a step ahead in its transition process. We have effectively started PHASE II of the transition - operating as a full RIR with a second opinion from other RIRs - Consequently, our whois server is online and all resource requests must be sent directly to hostmaster@afrinic.net. You must use the various templates available at: http://www.afrinic.net/documentation.htm#templates At this point, we do not have something similar to the 'LIR portal' (RIPE NCC) or 'MyAPNIC' (APNIC). All updates must be done through our e-mail interface. Please find the necessary information under the Database and Registration Services section of our web site (www.afrinic.net). Further more, public information about registration in the AfriNIC service region is now provided by whois.afrinic.net (port 43). You can query the server using any regular whois client. To have access to some advanced features, you may need to use the RIPE NCC whois client which can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/. A web interface for whois queries will be online soon. We will be happy to answer any questions from you regarding this process. Please send your questions to transition@afrinic.net. Kind regards. Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net _______________________________________________ afrinic-discuss mailing list afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From eric at afrispa.org Wed Feb 23 21:24:34 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! Message-ID: <200502232124.AA163577924@afrispa.org> I agree with Badru that you guys at AfriNIC are making history and it is important that this makes headline news so lets get some news feed out there. I can offer to do a Press Release, Adiel if this is okay then send me some material privately and we can put things together for u to okay and then we can use the HANA wire service to let it out. Eric here ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Badru Ntege" Reply-To: ntegeb@one2net.co.ug, AfriNIC Discuss Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:48:22 +0300 >Adiel > >Congratulations on all the good work. Can we have an official press >release that we can have everyone distribute in their respective home >countries to make sure that this gets it's maximum exposure. > >We need to get out of the techie community into the common language to make >it headline news. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net >[mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Adiel A. AKPLOGAN >Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:58 PM >To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! > >Dear colleagues, > >As announced a few days ago, with effect from February 22nd, >AfriNIC is moving a step ahead in its transition process. >We have effectively started PHASE II of the transition - >operating as a full RIR with a second opinion from other >RIRs - > >Consequently, our whois server is online and all resource >requests must be sent directly to hostmaster@afrinic.net. >You must use the various templates available at: > >http://www.afrinic.net/documentation.htm#templates > >At this point, we do not have something similar to the >'LIR portal' (RIPE NCC) or 'MyAPNIC' (APNIC). All updates >must be done through our e-mail interface. Please find the >necessary information under the Database and Registration >Services section of our web site (www.afrinic.net). > >Further more, public information about registration in >the AfriNIC service region is now provided by whois.afrinic.net >(port 43). You can query the server using any regular whois client. >To have access to some advanced features, you may need to use the >RIPE NCC whois client which can be found at: > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/. > >A web interface for whois queries will be online soon. > >We will be happy to answer any questions from you regarding this >process. Please send your questions to transition@afrinic.net. > >Kind regards. > > >Adiel A. Akplogan >CEO, AfriNIC >www.afrinic.net > > >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Mail: eric@afrispa.org Web: www.afrispa.org Handle: eosiakwan ICQ: 164125857 Pmb 208, Accra-North 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North, BusyInternet Facility Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html "Tomorrow Now" -- From adiel at afrinic.net Wed Feb 23 23:07:32 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! In-Reply-To: <200502231848.j1NImSlK028840@ns1.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223185443.0532f870@mail.afrinic.net> <200502231848.j1NImSlK028840@ns1.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223230405.032eeec0@mail.afrinic.net> Hello Badru, The idea looks great, but I think a Press release will have a greater impact in April wen ICANN will give us the final recognition! We are still in PHASE II :) and there is one last phase which is PHASE III where we will be running without the second opinion. And this is schedule for less than two months. Cheers. Adiel. >Adiel > >Congratulations on all the good work. Can we have an official press >release that we can have everyone distribute in their respective home >countries to make sure that this gets it's maximum exposure. > >We need to get out of the techie community into the common language to make >it headline news. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net >[mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Adiel A. AKPLOGAN >Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:58 PM >To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! > >Dear colleagues, > >As announced a few days ago, with effect from February 22nd, >AfriNIC is moving a step ahead in its transition process. >We have effectively started PHASE II of the transition - >operating as a full RIR with a second opinion from other >RIRs - > >Consequently, our whois server is online and all resource >requests must be sent directly to hostmaster@afrinic.net. >You must use the various templates available at: > >http://www.afrinic.net/documentation.htm#templates > >At this point, we do not have something similar to the >'LIR portal' (RIPE NCC) or 'MyAPNIC' (APNIC). All updates >must be done through our e-mail interface. Please find the >necessary information under the Database and Registration >Services section of our web site (www.afrinic.net). > >Further more, public information about registration in >the AfriNIC service region is now provided by whois.afrinic.net >(port 43). You can query the server using any regular whois client. >To have access to some advanced features, you may need to use the >RIPE NCC whois client which can be found at: > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/. > >A web interface for whois queries will be online soon. > >We will be happy to answer any questions from you regarding this >process. Please send your questions to transition@afrinic.net. > >Kind regards. > > >Adiel A. Akplogan >CEO, AfriNIC >www.afrinic.net > > >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From mouhamet at next.sn Wed Feb 23 23:21:08 2005 From: mouhamet at next.sn (Mouhamet Diop NEXT) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! In-Reply-To: <200502231848.j1NImSlK028840@ns1.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <200502232121.j1NLLIV00311@santee.icann.org> Congrat, it's a real and strong achievement for all the african continent. I'm really proud to see things moving according to the initial plan. Good job . The African community will owe you this sacrifice. Regards Mouhamet Diop -----Original Message----- From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Badru Ntege Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:48 PM To: 'AfriNIC Discuss' Subject: RE: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! Adiel Congratulations on all the good work. Can we have an official press release that we can have everyone distribute in their respective home countries to make sure that this gets it's maximum exposure. We need to get out of the techie community into the common language to make it headline news. -----Original Message----- From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Adiel A. AKPLOGAN Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:58 PM To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! Dear colleagues, As announced a few days ago, with effect from February 22nd, AfriNIC is moving a step ahead in its transition process. We have effectively started PHASE II of the transition - operating as a full RIR with a second opinion from other RIRs - Consequently, our whois server is online and all resource requests must be sent directly to hostmaster@afrinic.net. You must use the various templates available at: http://www.afrinic.net/documentation.htm#templates At this point, we do not have something similar to the 'LIR portal' (RIPE NCC) or 'MyAPNIC' (APNIC). All updates must be done through our e-mail interface. Please find the necessary information under the Database and Registration Services section of our web site (www.afrinic.net). Further more, public information about registration in the AfriNIC service region is now provided by whois.afrinic.net (port 43). You can query the server using any regular whois client. To have access to some advanced features, you may need to use the RIPE NCC whois client which can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/. A web interface for whois queries will be online soon. We will be happy to answer any questions from you regarding this process. Please send your questions to transition@afrinic.net. Kind regards. Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net _______________________________________________ afrinic-discuss mailing list afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss _______________________________________________ afrinic-discuss mailing list afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From robbie at shorty.com Wed Feb 23 23:31:28 2005 From: robbie at shorty.com (Robbie Honerkamp) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: AfriNIC goes live! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223230405.032eeec0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223185443.0532f870@mail.afrinic.net> <200502231848.j1NImSlK028840@ns1.afrinic.net> <6.1.2.0.2.20050223230405.032eeec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <20050223213128.22448.qmail@server0.comtrends.net> Adiel A. AKPLOGAN writes: > The idea looks great, but I think a Press release will > have a greater impact in April wen ICANN will give us > the final recognition! > > We are still in PHASE II :) and there is one last phase > which is PHASE III where we will be running without the > second opinion. And this is schedule for less than two > months. True, but if you issue press releases as you successfully enter and complete phases, you stand a better chance of getting the media's attention. When you send out the big release, reporters know what's been going on and why it's such a big deal. Of course, I'm not a PR person by trade, so your mileage may vary.. Robbie From theo at flame.co.za Thu Feb 24 08:37:22 2005 From: theo at flame.co.za (Theo Kramer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223185443.0532f870@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223185443.0532f870@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <1109227042.3023.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> All involved at AfriNIC CONGRATULATIONS On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 18:58, Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > As announced a few days ago, with effect from February 22nd, > AfriNIC is moving a step ahead in its transition process. > We have effectively started PHASE II of the transition - > operating as a full RIR with a second opinion from other > RIRs - > > Consequently, our whois server is online and all resource > requests must be sent directly to hostmaster@afrinic.net. > You must use the various templates available at: > > http://www.afrinic.net/documentation.htm#templates > > At this point, we do not have something similar to the > 'LIR portal' (RIPE NCC) or 'MyAPNIC' (APNIC). All updates > must be done through our e-mail interface. Please find the > necessary information under the Database and Registration > Services section of our web site (www.afrinic.net). > > Further more, public information about registration in > the AfriNIC service region is now provided by whois.afrinic.net > (port 43). You can query the server using any regular whois client. > To have access to some advanced features, you may need to use the > RIPE NCC whois client which can be found at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/. > > A web interface for whois queries will be online soon. > > We will be happy to answer any questions from you regarding this > process. Please send your questions to transition@afrinic.net. > > Kind regards. > > > Adiel A. Akplogan > CEO, AfriNIC > www.afrinic.net > > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss -- Regards Theo From gregm at datapro.co.za Thu Feb 24 12:01:08 2005 From: gregm at datapro.co.za (Gregory Massel) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! References: <200502231848.j1NImSlK028840@ns1.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <00f401c51a57$cad9de80$73f223c4@gregm> > Congratulations on all the good work. Can we have an official press > release that we can have everyone distribute in their respective home > countries to make sure that this gets it's maximum exposure. > > We need to get out of the techie community into the common language to > make > it headline news. I would like to extend congratulations as well. This is a significant milestone. I have to agree with Badru about the press release. As an existing ARIN LIR who was transferred, I have to say that I've received a fair amount of correspondence from ARIN and almost none from AfriNIC. ARIN have been excellent at explaining what is going on, and it is this communication that has kept me in the loop as to what is happening. I think it is extremely important that the LIRs (and potential LIRs) see a press release from AfriNIC to assure them that AfriNIC is on the ball as well and to inspire confidence in and awareness of the resource transfer process. --Greg From padkla at aviso.ci Thu Feb 24 12:37:14 2005 From: padkla at aviso.ci (padkla@aviso.ci) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223230405.032eeec0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223185443.0532f870@mail.afrinic.net> <200502231848.j1NImSlK028840@ns1.afrinic.net> <6.1.2.0.2.20050223230405.032eeec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <1109241434.421dae5a47883@webmail.aviso.ci> Felicitation Adiel et bonne continuation Selon "Adiel A. AKPLOGAN" : > Hello Badru, > > The idea looks great, but I think a Press release will > have a greater impact in April wen ICANN will give us > the final recognition! > > We are still in PHASE II :) and there is one last phase > which is PHASE III where we will be running without the > second opinion. And this is schedule for less than two > months. > > Cheers. > > Adiel. > > > >Adiel > > > >Congratulations on all the good work. Can we have an official press > >release that we can have everyone distribute in their respective home > >countries to make sure that this gets it's maximum exposure. > > > >We need to get out of the techie community into the common language to > make > >it headline news. > > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net > >[mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Adiel A. > AKPLOGAN > >Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:58 PM > >To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > >Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! > > > >Dear colleagues, > > > >As announced a few days ago, with effect from February 22nd, > >AfriNIC is moving a step ahead in its transition process. > >We have effectively started PHASE II of the transition - > >operating as a full RIR with a second opinion from other > >RIRs - > > > >Consequently, our whois server is online and all resource > >requests must be sent directly to hostmaster@afrinic.net. > >You must use the various templates available at: > > > >http://www.afrinic.net/documentation.htm#templates > > > >At this point, we do not have something similar to the > >'LIR portal' (RIPE NCC) or 'MyAPNIC' (APNIC). All updates > >must be done through our e-mail interface. Please find the > >necessary information under the Database and Registration > >Services section of our web site (www.afrinic.net). > > > >Further more, public information about registration in > >the AfriNIC service region is now provided by whois.afrinic.net > >(port 43). You can query the server using any regular whois client. > >To have access to some advanced features, you may need to use the > >RIPE NCC whois client which can be found at: > > > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/. > > > >A web interface for whois queries will be online soon. > > > >We will be happy to answer any questions from you regarding this > >process. Please send your questions to transition@afrinic.net. > > > >Kind regards. > > > > > >Adiel A. Akplogan > >CEO, AfriNIC > >www.afrinic.net > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >afrinic-discuss mailing list > >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > > > >_______________________________________________ > >afrinic-discuss mailing list > >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > -- ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ From akourouma at afripatelecom.net.gn Thu Feb 24 13:21:57 2005 From: akourouma at afripatelecom.net.gn (Aboubacar KOUROUMA) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223230405.032eeec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <20050224111717.564993F7C8@pop.afripatelecom.net.gn> Salut Adiel, F?licitations ? toi et toute ton ?quipe. Nous sommes fiers de vous. Bonne continuation. ============================================= Aboubacar KOUROUMA Technical Manager Afripa Telecom B.P : 6811 - Conakry Guin?e Tel : +224 25 7389 / +224 13-1088 85 Fax : +1-702-543-4089 -----Message d'origine----- De?: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] De la part de Adiel A. AKPLOGAN Envoy??: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 9:08 PM ??: ntegeb@one2net.co.ug; AfriNIC Discuss Objet?: RE: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! Hello Badru, The idea looks great, but I think a Press release will have a greater impact in April wen ICANN will give us the final recognition! We are still in PHASE II :) and there is one last phase which is PHASE III where we will be running without the second opinion. And this is schedule for less than two months. Cheers. Adiel. >Adiel > >Congratulations on all the good work. Can we have an official press >release that we can have everyone distribute in their respective home >countries to make sure that this gets it's maximum exposure. > >We need to get out of the techie community into the common language to make >it headline news. > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net >[mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Adiel A. AKPLOGAN >Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 7:58 PM >To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! > >Dear colleagues, > >As announced a few days ago, with effect from February 22nd, >AfriNIC is moving a step ahead in its transition process. >We have effectively started PHASE II of the transition - >operating as a full RIR with a second opinion from other >RIRs - > >Consequently, our whois server is online and all resource >requests must be sent directly to hostmaster@afrinic.net. >You must use the various templates available at: > >http://www.afrinic.net/documentation.htm#templates > >At this point, we do not have something similar to the >'LIR portal' (RIPE NCC) or 'MyAPNIC' (APNIC). All updates >must be done through our e-mail interface. Please find the >necessary information under the Database and Registration >Services section of our web site (www.afrinic.net). > >Further more, public information about registration in >the AfriNIC service region is now provided by whois.afrinic.net >(port 43). You can query the server using any regular whois client. >To have access to some advanced features, you may need to use the >RIPE NCC whois client which can be found at: > >http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/. > >A web interface for whois queries will be online soon. > >We will be happy to answer any questions from you regarding this >process. Please send your questions to transition@afrinic.net. > >Kind regards. > > >Adiel A. Akplogan >CEO, AfriNIC >www.afrinic.net > > >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss _______________________________________________ afrinic-discuss mailing list afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From victor at cbinf.com Thu Feb 24 13:50:14 2005 From: victor at cbinf.com (Victor CIZA) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223185443.0532f870@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <005101c51a67$07ef3cc0$0808c751@cbinf.com> Cher Adiel, Chaleureuses f?licitations pour la r?ussite d'Afrinic. Il y a de quoi ?tre fier! Amicalement, Victor Ciza ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adiel A. AKPLOGAN" To: Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:58 PM Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! > Dear colleagues, > > As announced a few days ago, with effect from February 22nd, > AfriNIC is moving a step ahead in its transition process. > We have effectively started PHASE II of the transition - > operating as a full RIR with a second opinion from other > RIRs - > > Consequently, our whois server is online and all resource > requests must be sent directly to hostmaster@afrinic.net. > You must use the various templates available at: > > http://www.afrinic.net/documentation.htm#templates > > At this point, we do not have something similar to the > 'LIR portal' (RIPE NCC) or 'MyAPNIC' (APNIC). All updates > must be done through our e-mail interface. Please find the > necessary information under the Database and Registration > Services section of our web site (www.afrinic.net). > > Further more, public information about registration in > the AfriNIC service region is now provided by whois.afrinic.net > (port 43). You can query the server using any regular whois client. > To have access to some advanced features, you may need to use the > RIPE NCC whois client which can be found at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/. > > A web interface for whois queries will be online soon. > > We will be happy to answer any questions from you regarding this > process. Please send your questions to transition@afrinic.net. > > Kind regards. > > > Adiel A. Akplogan > CEO, AfriNIC > www.afrinic.net > > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > From agbaholou at intnet.bj Thu Feb 24 20:30:53 2005 From: agbaholou at intnet.bj (agbaholou@intnet.bj) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC goes live! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223185443.0532f870@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050223185443.0532f870@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <2847.81.91.225.151.1109269853.squirrel@www.intnet.bj> F?licitation Adiel, Nous allons finaliser les formailit?s de notre prise en compte administrative par AfriNIC dans les tous prochains jours. Pers?v?rance et courage. Cordialement, Louis Agbaholou ------------- Chef Division NTIC OPT BENIN > Dear colleagues, > > As announced a few days ago, with effect from February 22nd, > AfriNIC is moving a step ahead in its transition process. > We have effectively started PHASE II of the transition - > operating as a full RIR with a second opinion from other > RIRs - > > Consequently, our whois server is online and all resource > requests must be sent directly to hostmaster@afrinic.net. > You must use the various templates available at: > > http://www.afrinic.net/documentation.htm#templates > > At this point, we do not have something similar to the > 'LIR portal' (RIPE NCC) or 'MyAPNIC' (APNIC). All updates > must be done through our e-mail interface. Please find the > necessary information under the Database and Registration > Services section of our web site (www.afrinic.net). > > Further more, public information about registration in > the AfriNIC service region is now provided by whois.afrinic.net > (port 43). You can query the server using any regular whois client. > To have access to some advanced features, you may need to use the > RIPE NCC whois client which can be found at: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/. > > A web interface for whois queries will be online soon. > > We will be happy to answer any questions from you regarding this > process. Please send your questions to transition@afrinic.net. > > Kind regards. > > > Adiel A. Akplogan > CEO, AfriNIC > www.afrinic.net > > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > From adiel at afrinic.net Sun Feb 27 18:40:28 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Press release Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050227183607.030c1930@mail.afrinic.net> A press release is now available at: http://www.afrinic.net/news_ancmt/afpr-p2200502.htm Adiel From adiel at afrinic.net Tue Mar 1 10:12:27 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Press release In-Reply-To: <20050301074646.09F46216F68@mail.nexus.ao> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050227183607.030c1930@mail.afrinic.net> <20050301074646.09F46216F68@mail.nexus.ao> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050301101152.04e10468@207.44.238.73> Great and thank you very much! Adiel. >Thank you! We translated to portugueese and will publish in our web portal. > >Best rgds, > >haymee >-------------------------------------------------------------- >Haym?e P?rez Cogle >Directora Comercial >NEXUS-Telecomunica??es e Servi?os, SARL >www.nexus.ao >haymee@nexus.ao >================================== >Office: Av. Lenin 2/4 Luanda >HQ: Rua dos Enganos N?1 / 1?Andar. >Tel.: (244-2) 39-7540 ext 204 >Mobile: (244) 912-518-412 > (244) 923-683-980 (GSM) >FAX: (244-2) 39 09 95 >POBox: 2155 > LUANDA-ANGOLA >-------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net > > [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of > > Adiel A. AKPLOGAN > > Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 5:40 PM > > To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > > Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Press release > > > > A press release is now available at: > > > > http://www.afrinic.net/news_ancmt/afpr-p2200502.htm > > > > Adiel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > afrinic-discuss mailing list > > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > > From adiel at afrinic.net Tue Mar 1 13:03:44 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Board seats 5 and 6: Nomination period is open Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050301085843.032c2ec0@mail.afrinic.net> ** [Apologies for any duplicate mails] ** Dear Colleagues, This year, we have two vacant seats on the AfriNIC board. They represent: a) Seat 5: The Indian Ocean sub-region (Primary and alternate) Mandate: 2005 to 2008 b) Seat 6: The Central African sub-region (Primary and Alternate) Mandate: 2005 to 2008 Who can seat on the Board? Anybody resident in one of the above sub-regions. Nominees should have a good experience/background in the Internet environment, be able to participate actively in all activities conferred to the BoT by the AfriNIC bylaws (Section 16) and, as the working language is English, candidates should have a minimum comprehension of the English language. Nominations should be sent to board-nomination@afrinic.net with the following information: ---------- Full name: Organization (or affiliation): Physical address: e-mail address: Phone number: Fax number: Country and sub-region: Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 500 words): ** You may want to add a picture (it will appear in your details online) ----------- The deadline for Candidacy/Nominations is Tuesday March 15th 2005 at 08:00 pm Election process policies: http://www.afrinic.net/bot/afbot-elp200502.htm Kind regards. Adiel A. Akplogan From adiel at afrinic.net Tue Mar 1 13:05:02 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] NRO Name Council Representatives: Nomination period is open Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050301124146.056b5938@mail.afrinic.net> ** [Apologies for any duplicate mails] ** Dear Colleagues, This year, we will have to elect two representatives in the Name Council of the NRO (According to point 7 of the NRO MoU). The elected person shall also act as the ASO Address Council (ICANN ASO MoU) repetitive for AfriNIC region. The two open seats are: Seat 1: for three years term (2005 to 2008) Seat 2: for two years term (2005 to 2007) Who can represent AfriNIC region in the NC? Anybody resident in AfriNIC service region. Nominees should have a good experience/background in the Internet environment, be able to participate actively in all activities conferred to the Number Council and, as the working language is English, candidates should have a minimum comprehension of the English language. Nominations should be sent to nc-nomination@afrinic.net with the following information: ---------- Full name: Organization (or affiliation): Physical address: e-mail address: Phone number: Fax number: Country: Brief statement explaining the candidate's background and motivation (Not more than 500 words): ** You may want to add a picture (it will appear in your details on line) ----------- The deadline for Candidacy/Nominations is Tuesday March 15th 2005 at 08:00 pm Links: NC representative election Policy: http://www.afrinic.net/aso-nro/afnro-elp200502.htm NRO MoU: http://www.nro.net/documents/nro1.html ICAN ASO MoU: http://www.nro.net/documents/aso-mou.html Kind regards. Adiel A. Akplogan From adiel at afrinic.net Wed Mar 2 20:54:32 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Online whois Query! Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050302205200.0608d688@mail.afrinic.net> Dear colleagues, Since Last week we have received a lot of requests about the web interface to query AfrINIC whois database. It is now done. Enjoy it. Kind regards. Adiel. From quincy at translink.co.ug Thu Mar 3 01:47:09 2005 From: quincy at translink.co.ug (Quincy Prakash) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Online whois Query! Message-ID: Hello, Can we have the link? > Dear colleagues, > > Since Last week we have received a lot of requests about the > web interface to query AfrINIC whois database. It is now done. > Enjoy it. > > Kind regards. > > Adiel. From adiel at afrinic.net Thu Mar 3 01:36:46 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Online whois Query! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050303013514.036daec0@mail.afrinic.net> www.afrinic.net or http://www.afrinic.net/whois/whois-afr.htm - a. >Hello, > >Can we have the link? > > > Dear colleagues, > > > > Since Last week we have received a lot of requests about the > > web interface to query AfrINIC whois database. It is now done. > > Enjoy it. > > > > Kind regards. > > > > Adiel. From ouedraog at francophonie.org Thu Mar 3 01:37:25 2005 From: ouedraog at francophonie.org (Pierre OUEDRAOGO) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Online whois Query! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <42264E35.10907@francophonie.org> http://www.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois PO Quincy Prakash wrote: >Hello, > >Can we have the link? > > > >>Dear colleagues, >> >>Since Last week we have received a lot of requests about the >>web interface to query AfrINIC whois database. It is now done. >>Enjoy it. >> >>Kind regards. >> >>Adiel. >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > > > -- --------------------------------------------------- Pierre OUEDRAOGO responsable de programmes Soci?t? de l'Information Institut francophone des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la Formation (INTIF) Agence intergouvernementale de la Francophonie 15 Quai Louis XVIII - 33000 Bordeaux - France Courriel: pierre.ouedraogo@francophonie.org Tel: (33) 5 56 01 59 23 - Fax: (33) 5 56 51 78 49 http://agence.francophonie.org http://intif.francophonie.org http://aaul.logiciels-libres.org --------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050303/162aa1ec/attachment.htm From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Thu Mar 3 10:09:14 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Online whois Query! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050303013514.036daec0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050303013514.036daec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <20050303080914.GA17521@nic.fr> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:36:46AM +0200, Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote a message of 25 lines which said: > http://www.afrinic.net/whois/whois-afr.htm The "Advanced search" seems broken. I just typed 196.216.2.1 in "Search for" and I got: % This is the AfriNIC Whois server. %ERROR:102: unknown source % % "AFRINIC196.216.2.1" is not a known source. % Use "-q sources" to list known sources. From adiel at afrinic.net Thu Mar 3 11:42:36 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Online whois Query! In-Reply-To: <20050303080914.GA17521@nic.fr> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050303013514.036daec0@mail.afrinic.net> <20050303080914.GA17521@nic.fr> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050303114145.06097340@mail.afrinic.net> Thanks Stephane, That is now solved. Adiel. >On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:36:46AM +0200, > Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote > a message of 25 lines which said: > > > http://www.afrinic.net/whois/whois-afr.htm > >The "Advanced search" seems broken. I just typed 196.216.2.1 in >"Search for" and I got: > >% This is the AfriNIC Whois server. > >%ERROR:102: unknown source >% >% "AFRINIC196.216.2.1" is not a known source. >% Use "-q sources" to list known sources. From teddyap at isoc-id.org Fri Mar 4 12:32:08 2005 From: teddyap at isoc-id.org (ISOIC Indonesia) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Online whois Query! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050303114145.06097340@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050303013514.036daec0@mail.afrinic.net> <20050303080914.GA17521@nic.fr> <6.1.2.0.2.20050303114145.06097340@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20050304173116.02e4b060@pop3.access.net.id> Folks, Pretty & Good Luck ;-) -teddy At 04:42 PM 3/3/2005, Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote: >Thanks Stephane, That is now solved. > >Adiel. >>On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:36:46AM +0200, >> Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote >> a message of 25 lines which said: >> >> > http://www.afrinic.net/whois/whois-afr.htm >> >>The "Advanced search" seems broken. I just typed 196.216.2.1 in >>"Search for" and I got: >> >>% This is the AfriNIC Whois server. >> >>%ERROR:102: unknown source >>% >>% "AFRINIC196.216.2.1" is not a known source. >>% Use "-q sources" to list known sources. > > >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From eric at afrispa.org Tue Mar 8 01:00:42 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Africa underseige, we have an opportunity to salvage it Message-ID: <200503080100.AA9635082@afrispa.org> Dear Africans, Africans in the world and global partners, What happened in Kenya a few hours ago in the same as what happened in Togo with the death of President Gnassingbe Eyadema of Togo a few weeks ago and if we as a people did put pressure on the Togolese authorities to return to constitutional rule then i call you to join me in demanding that the Kenyan authorities recind their decision to interfer with a State institution in the manner in which thay have done. I think some form of industry (s) and individual reaction is needed because it is important for us to send a message out there that it is totally unacceptable to tamper with State institutions that uphold democratic tenets and the rule of law on our continent. Am afraid but this has a direct bearing on other sectors like water, electricity etc and can happen anywhere in Africa. Utility regulatory institutions are very important and we must push back actions that treat them this way - this is a major threat to the rule of law. It is also important for us to see this as a major setback for public policy, donors, private sector, regulators, consumers that are not only represented in the IP and Telecom sector but also in the other state sectors. Please the least you can do is to send am e-mail to the kenya State through; contact@statehousekenya.go.ke And to the President through; president@statehousekenya.go.ke You can also send a letter or make a call or telegram to the Kenyan government through; Office of the President Harambee House, Harambee Avenue, P.O. Box 30510, Nairobi, Tel. (254-020) 227411 Telegrams: "RAIS" Read below -------------------------------------------------------------------- Press Release For Immediate Release Tuesday, March 8, 2005 The 7th of March 2005 will go down in history as one of the darkest days in Kenya's and Africa's communications sectors. This is the day that the Kenyan Government, in a totally incomprehensible manner dissolved the Communications Commission of Kenya's Board of Directors and relieved the Director General of his duties. The actions taken by the government can only be construed as intrusive, obstructive shortsighted and diversionary as they come in the midst of an ongoing liberalisation of the sector, end of exclusivity of Telkom Kenya and fast convergence of technologies that are currently presenting regulators worldwide with unforseen challenges. It is our contention, on behalf of the industry, that this was a hurried, unplanned and poorly thought out action. The ongoing disputes within the sector which have been prompted by the newly opened market demand that the country have a stable, objective and level-headed regulator. The immediate former Board of Directors and Director-General had successfully managed Kenya's transition into a competition framework. Besides this, the immediate former Director General is the current Chairman of the International Telecommunications Union Council which oversees telecommunications worldwide. This is due to recognition by the International community of CCK's outstanding efforts to reform Kenya's regulatory environment from one of the worst in the world to the current status where we are being emulated by countries such as South Africa because of our exemplary and progressive regulations. This action by the Government has thrown the entire industry into disarray. The CCK Board plays such a crucial role that now no further licenses can be issued, no disputes can be settled and no formal regulatory interventions can take place and there is no clear communication from the Government as to how affairs within the sector are to be managed. Currently over 100 companies await the processing of their licenses in order to establish business, employ Kenyans and bring communications facilities and services to the economy. This has all been cut short by interference from the very Government that committed itself to economic reforms, improved employment and support for private-sector driven development. The appointment of an acting Director-General from a Ministerial department also raises questions as to the sincerity of the Government in providing for an independent regulator as mandated by the Law (KCA '98). We do not need to emphasise the fact that the same Government has failed in it's primary role of providing policy guidance for the sector over the past 4 years and instead has resorted to frustrating and now completely disabling the only agency that has promoted investment and development within Kenya's communications sector. On hearing this news, the Chairman of the African ISP Association, Mr. W. Stucke, who is based in South Africa reacted by saying "Good grief! Now watch investments in Africa as a whole, not just Kenya wither up and blow away in the wind..." It is our understanding that the position of Director General has tenure of office under the Communications Act '98 and his removal from active duty without any explanation begs the question as to whether the government really respects the Law. This same law has safeguards to protect the regulator from interference but these seem to have been completely ignored by the Government who today are interested parties in the communications sector. We hereby express our outrage at the way in which this matter has been handled and demand an immediate explanation from the Government regarding it's actions and it's plans to restore confidence and stability in the communications sector in the shortest time possible. Mr. Joseph Mucheru, For Telecommunications Service Providers of Kenya Chairman For more details, Call +254 20245630 -- Joseph Mucheru Chairman Telecommunications Service Providers Association of Kenya (TESPOK) 14th Floor, Bruce House - Standard Street P O Box 27589 -00506 Nairobi, KENYA Tel: +254-20-245036 Http://www.tespok.co.ke STOP PRESS! Kenyan Govt dissolves CCK Board! > Importance: High > > >I am sitting here writing this email in a state of shock and disbelief. Two >hours ago I received a frantic phone call from a shaken member of the press to >inform me that CCK has been dissolved. > >In a press release that was sent out at 7:45pm this evening, the Minister >for Information and Communication, Raphael Tuju announced that he has >dissolved the CCK Board of Directors and sent the Director General S Kirui on >compulsory leave. The former secretary to the National Communications >Secretariat Dr. J. Kulubi has been appointed as acting DG. > >This is an utter disgrace and has shocked the industry to the core! My phone >has been ringing off the hook. This government interference in our sector has >gone too far! And especially coming the day after a damning report on how the >immediate former Assistant Director was relieved of duty by Minister for >Communications after exposing a massive racket in which Telkom Kenya was being >fleeced of millions of dollars. > >It appears that this most recent development has the 3rd GSM license fiasco as >some kind of smoke screen - maybe to divert Kenyans short attention span from >the very serious questions that the investigative report in yesterday's East >African Standard raises. > >Anyway I now need to go to my arsenal and get ready to do battle. > >Weep for your country dear Kenyans - as we fight to bring sanity into our >nation's affairs! > >Brian >-- >Brian Longwe >Chief Technology Officer >ISP Kenya Ltd. >P.O. Box 43042, Nairobi, Kenya >Tel: +254 2 444 5959; Fax: +254 2 4446772 >E-mail: cto@nbi.ispkenya.com >Website: www.ispkenya.com -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- From William at zanet.co.za Tue Mar 8 13:28:29 2005 From: William at zanet.co.za (William Stucke) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] FW: [AfrISPA.Discuss] AfrISPA IXP survey Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, {apologies for cross-posting} AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) has already helped several African countries to implement Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), a move we believe is crucial to local Internet development. To take this process further, we have now established an African Internet Exchange Task Force (AFIX-TF) to promote the development of new IXPs (http://afix.afrispa.org). The project is funded by the UK's DFID, via CATIA (see www.catia.ws). We intend to have 8-12 new IXPs up and running in Africa by May 2006. We can offer the following support to those who might want to establish an IXP in their country: A. We can facilitate workshops where participants will learn how to set up an IXP and why it's worth doing so. Courses will be offered for technical staff as well as for business and political decision makers. B. The training materials from both workshops will be made freely available. C. We can help to set up IXPs and provide certain essential equipment. We have almost completed the content for both workshops and plan to hold the first one in April 2005 and intend to run 6-10 workshops over the next 14 months. AfrISPA will provide and fund trainers and equipment, so long as local contacts can ensure a minimum number of participants and provide a venue. To help us plan where and when to host this series of workshops, we would be grateful if you could complete the following quick survey and send your answers to . It should take no more than ten minutes of your time. 1. Your Name 2. Your email address 3. In which country are you based? 4. Is there already an operational IXP in your country? 5. Do you work for an ISP? Which one? 6. How many ISPs are currently operating in your country? 7. How many of these ISPs do you think might join an IXP? 8. Would you be prepared to attend a two-day technical IXP workshop in your country? 9. Would you be prepared to attend a half-day IXP decision-makers workshop in your country? If your answer to either of the above last two questions is "yes", when is the best time for us to host a workshop in your country? (Please select first and second preference): 1Q-2005 2Q-2005 3Q-2005 4Q-2005 1Q-2006 2Q-2006 10. How many other ISPs in your country do you think would attend such a workshop? 11. How many other decision makers (ISP CEOs/CIOs, regulator, communications ministry, telco, etc.) in your country do you think would attend such a workshop? 12. Is there an ISPA (Internet Service Providers Association) in your country? If yes, what is it called? 13. If not, would you like AfrISPA to hold a workshop to communicate the benefits of having an ISPA? 14. Are you prepared to act as local contact for a workshop? 15. Would you or your company be prepared to host or sponsor an IXP workshop? (Sponsorship could include e.g. location, dinner, or loan of PCs and LAN) 16. Are you aware of any potential IXP champions interested to spend 6 months at the KTH - a prominent Swedish university - learning and planning your country IXP, for academic credit? If yes, please provide their email address. 17. Can you suggest who else we should contact? Please send your responses to . kind regards, Alan Levin AFIX-TF team leader Tel: +27 21 409-7997 --------------------------------------------- William Stucke AfrISPA Chairman +27 11 465 0700 William@zanet.co.za To unsubscribe send a mail to: imailsrv@afrispa.org. Type the following in the body of your mail (not header): "Unsubscribe discuss" (without quotes). This List is operated by ZAnet Internet Services: www.zanet.co.za on behalf of www.afrispa.org. For any List Admin queries send mail to William@zanet.co.za From eric at afrispa.org Tue Mar 8 21:32:02 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfrISPA =?iso-8859-1?q?=B9?= s position on the dissolution of the Communications Commission of Kenya Board Message-ID: <200503082132.AA151978986@afrispa.org> For immediate circulation and release in all your respective capacities. Al= so formally send to your respective Kenyan Embassies/High Commissions. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, March 8, 2005 AfrISPA=B9s position on the dissolution of the Communications Commission of Kenya Board The African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA, www.afrispa.org) learns with regret the recent state of affairs in the Keny= a Communication Sector. We join the Telecommunication Service Providers Association of Kenya (TESPOK, www.tespok.co.ke) to utterly condemn in the most strongest terms the action of the Kenyan Government of suddenly dissolving the Communications Commission of Kenya's Board of Directors and relieving the Director General of his duties =AD we contend that due proces= s should have being engaged. This is a direct subversion of the established legislative and constitutional structure. It is our understanding that the position of Director General has tenure of office under the Communications Act '98 and his removal from active duty without any explanation begs the question as t= o whether the government really respects the rule of law and upholds due process as demanded by the constitution of the Republic of Kenya. This same= law has safeguards to protect the regulator from interference but these see= m to have been completely ignored. This case compares to the recent constitutional ineptitude displayed in the= Togolese republic at the untimely passing of President Gnassingbe Eyadema a= few weeks ago where we as a people demanded the Togolese authorities return= to constitutional order. We also hereby demand that the Kenyan authorities rescind their decision to interfere with this State institution in the manner in which they have done and return to due process and command respec= t to the regulatory structures that have attracted a lot of private capital into the Kenya economy. We are of the view that it is totally unacceptable to tamper with State institutions that uphold democratic tenets and the rule of law on our continent. The CCK is providing a beacon of hope in the regional regulatory= caucus through the attraction of private capital into the ICT sector throug= h it=B9s forward looking and level headed regulatory disposition and must not= be tampered with this way. We are of the view that this has a direct bearing on other sectors like water, electricity etc and can happen anywhere in Africa. Utility regulator= y institutions are very important and we must push back actions that treat them this way - this is a major threat to the rule of law and due process. It is also important for us to see this as a major setback for public policy, donors, private sector, regulators, consumers that are not only represented in the IP and Telecom sector but also in the other state sectors. We fully support the Press Release below by TESPOK and join them to not onl= y demand an explanation but to request the Kenyan government to restore it= =B9s reputation and address the needs of it=B9s people by restoring the Board an= d Director General, allowing them to serve out their tenure as stipulated by = the Kenyan Communications Act '98. To be issued and sent directly to; contact@statehousekenya.go.ke , president@statehousekenya.go.ke and Office of the President Harambee House, Harambee Avenue, P.O. Box 30510, Nairobi, Tel. (254-020) 227411 Telegrams: "RAIS" ----------------------------- -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/octet-stream Size: 80532 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050308/10172f50/attachment.obj From adiel at afrinic.net Thu Mar 10 22:40:31 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-2: Registration is open Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050310214828.05513810@mail.afrinic.net> Dear Colleagues, As you know we are having our second public policy meeting in Maputo from 26 to 27 April 2005. * Registration for the meeting is now open. http://www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2/registration.htm You can check information about the meeting by visiting the meeting web page at: www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2/index.htm Prior to the meeting itself, AfriNIC is organizing one day LIR training on the 23rd of April (French and English session). You can already register for the training too at: http://www.afrinic.net/trainings/tr_registration.htm For any further information, please contact meeting@afrinic.net or call our office at +230 466 66 16. Regards. Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net From klohento at panos-ao.org Fri Mar 11 12:13:50 2005 From: klohento at panos-ao.org (Ken Lohento) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-2: Registration is open In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050310214828.05513810@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: Dear all: First, I would like to thank Adiel and all the AfriNIC team for recent achievements of AfriNIC! Is it possible that those who won't be present at Maputo follow or contribute to the public policy debates? If it was not posssible, I would like to suggest that that possibility is explored for future (after Maputo) public policy meetings. FYI: I put the message below in our website (bilingual). http://www.cipaco.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3&lang= Best regards et bonne continuation. Ken LOHENTO Coordinator of the Centre for International ICT Policies - West and Central Africa (CIPACO) Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA) 6, rue Calmette BP 21 132 Dakar Ponty Senegal Tel.: +221 849 16 65 www.cipaco.org www.panos-ao.org Informing and Communicating to promote a culture of Democracy, Citizenship and Peace in Africa. > -----Message d'origine----- > De : afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net > [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net]De la part de Adiel A. > AKPLOGAN > Envoye : jeudi 10 mars 2005 20:41 > A : afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > Objet : [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-2: Registration is open > > > Dear Colleagues, > > As you know we are having our second public policy meeting > in Maputo from 26 to 27 April 2005. > > * Registration for the meeting is now open. > http://www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2/registration.htm > > You can check information about the meeting by visiting the > meeting web page at: > > www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2/index.htm > > Prior to the meeting itself, AfriNIC is organizing one day LIR > training on the 23rd of April (French and English session). > You can already register for the training too at: > > http://www.afrinic.net/trainings/tr_registration.htm > > For any further information, please contact meeting@afrinic.net > or call our office at +230 466 66 16. > > Regards. > > Adiel A. Akplogan > CEO, AfriNIC > www.afrinic.net > > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > From aalain at trstech.net Fri Mar 11 13:48:47 2005 From: aalain at trstech.net (AINA ALAIN PATRICK(TRS)) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-2: Registration is open In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050310214828.05513810@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050310214828.05513810@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <200503111148.47851.aalain@trstech.net> hope you will not need me for the LIR training --alain From adiel at afrinic.net Fri Mar 11 13:48:41 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-2: Registration is open In-Reply-To: References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050310214828.05513810@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050311134130.04aa04e8@mail.afrinic.net> Hello Ken, >First, I would like to thank Adiel and all the AfriNIC team for recent >achievements of AfriNIC! Thanks. >Is it possible that those who won't be present at Maputo follow or >contribute to the public policy debates? If it was not posssible, I would >like to suggest that that possibility is explored for future (after Maputo) >public policy meetings. There is an opened mailing list dedicated to policy discussions which is policy-wg@afrinic.net (send a mail to policy-wg-request@afrinic.net with the word 'subscribe' in the subject to get in). The list is open and is used for policy related discussions. You are all welcome to subscribe and voice your point of view their. Additionally we are working on a possiblity to have a live video streaming of Maputo's meeting. So even people not on site can at least follow the meeting. >FYI: I put the message below in our website (bilingual). > >http://www.cipaco.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3&lang= Thanks for that. Regards. - a. > > -----Message d'origine----- > > De : afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net > > [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net]De la part de Adiel A. > > AKPLOGAN > > Envoye : jeudi 10 mars 2005 20:41 > > A : afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > > Objet : [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-2: Registration is open > > > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > As you know we are having our second public policy meeting > > in Maputo from 26 to 27 April 2005. > > > > * Registration for the meeting is now open. > > http://www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2/registration.htm > > > > You can check information about the meeting by visiting the > > meeting web page at: > > > > www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2/index.htm > > > > Prior to the meeting itself, AfriNIC is organizing one day LIR > > training on the 23rd of April (French and English session). > > You can already register for the training too at: > > > > http://www.afrinic.net/trainings/tr_registration.htm > > > > For any further information, please contact meeting@afrinic.net > > or call our office at +230 466 66 16. > > > > Regards. > > > > Adiel A. Akplogan > > CEO, AfriNIC > > www.afrinic.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > afrinic-discuss mailing list > > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From adiel at afrinic.net Fri Mar 11 13:48:41 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-2: Registration is open In-Reply-To: References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050310214828.05513810@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050311134130.04aa04e8@mail.afrinic.net> Hello Ken, >First, I would like to thank Adiel and all the AfriNIC team for recent >achievements of AfriNIC! Thanks. >Is it possible that those who won't be present at Maputo follow or >contribute to the public policy debates? If it was not posssible, I would >like to suggest that that possibility is explored for future (after Maputo) >public policy meetings. There is an opened mailing list dedicated to policy discussions which is policy-wg@afrinic.net (send a mail to policy-wg-request@afrinic.net with the word 'subscribe' in the subject to get in). The list is open and is used for policy related discussions. You are all welcome to subscribe and voice your point of view their. Additionally we are working on a possiblity to have a live video streaming of Maputo's meeting. So even people not on site can at least follow the meeting. >FYI: I put the message below in our website (bilingual). > >http://www.cipaco.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=3&lang= Thanks for that. Regards. - a. > > -----Message d'origine----- > > De : afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net > > [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net]De la part de Adiel A. > > AKPLOGAN > > Envoye : jeudi 10 mars 2005 20:41 > > A : afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > > Objet : [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-2: Registration is open > > > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > > > As you know we are having our second public policy meeting > > in Maputo from 26 to 27 April 2005. > > > > * Registration for the meeting is now open. > > http://www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2/registration.htm > > > > You can check information about the meeting by visiting the > > meeting web page at: > > > > www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2/index.htm > > > > Prior to the meeting itself, AfriNIC is organizing one day LIR > > training on the 23rd of April (French and English session). > > You can already register for the training too at: > > > > http://www.afrinic.net/trainings/tr_registration.htm > > > > For any further information, please contact meeting@afrinic.net > > or call our office at +230 466 66 16. > > > > Regards. > > > > Adiel A. Akplogan > > CEO, AfriNIC > > www.afrinic.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > afrinic-discuss mailing list > > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From aalain at trstech.net Fri Mar 11 14:14:40 2005 From: aalain at trstech.net (AINA ALAIN PATRICK(TRS)) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-2: Registration is open In-Reply-To: <200503111148.47851.aalain@trstech.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050310214828.05513810@mail.afrinic.net> <200503111148.47851.aalain@trstech.net> Message-ID: <200503111214.41055.aalain@trstech.net> Le Vendredi 11 Mars 2005 11:48, AINA ALAIN PATRICK(TRS) a ?crit?: > hope you will not need me for the LIR training > > > --alain This is for the CEO only. pls delete it from your mailbox.:-) A posting error. --alain -- See you at AFNOG 2005 and AFRINIC-II maputo,Mozambique, 17-27 Avril 2005 www.afnog.org,www.afrinic.net From eric at afrispa.org Fri Mar 11 19:24:18 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] GISPA =?iso-8859-1?q?=92?= s REACTION TO THE TERMINATION OF THE CCK BOARD AND DG Message-ID: <200503111924.AA87688522@afrispa.org> Press Release For immediate release Friday 11th March, 2005 =96 Accra, Ghana GISPA=92s REACTION TO THE TERMINATION OF THE CCK BOARD AND DG The Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA, www.gispa.org.gh) = is of the view that the recent action by the Minister of Information and Co= mmunication of the Republic of Kenya is not only a bridge of due process bu= t a sabotage not only to the Kenyan but Africa economy as a whole. We there= fore join our comrades in the African Internet Service Providers Associatio= n to utterly condemn this action and treat it with the contempt it deserves= . The action of the Minister begs the question =93is Africa a stable environm= ent for investment=94 and this is more emphatic given that the minister too= k this decision at a critical time of ICT sector liberalization in Kenya. C= urrently over 100 companies await the processing of their licenses in order= to establish business, employ Kenyans and bring communications facilities = and services to the economy, all this is halted by the ministers action. The Communication Commission of Kenya (CCK) has grown to become a beckon of= hope for the regulatory institutions that we are building for this sector = and hence the Director Generals appointment to the Chairman of the ITU Coun= cil. His forward looking and visionary regulatory approach has attracted a = lot of investment into the Kenya economy but the action of the Minister is = a sure deterrent for the already existing investment and future ones. This = confirms recent finding that the attraction of investment into the ICT sect= or has being largely determined by the regulatory independence and transpar= ency of such institutions. We are of the view that the activities in Kenya are distorting the entire I= CT sector in Africa and could have repetitive effects on the other sectors = given that ICT is cross sectorial. This also sends a message out there that= governments in Africa are still disruptive and do not adhere to due proces= s. We therefore join our comrades to not only condemn this action but deman= d a re-instatement of the board and DG of the CCK. The minister should reso= rt to due process if he has a problem with the dealings of the CCK. About GISPA The Ghana Internet Service Providers Association (GISPA, www.gispa.org.gh) = is a non-profit trade corporation that represents the interest of Internet = Service Providers (ISPs) and those interested in the provision of Internet = service in Ghana. Our focus is to grow the Internet locally through lobbyin= g for the right policies, negotiating transparent and independent regulator= y frameworks and building networks to enhance easy, reliable and affordable= communication to the consumer. GISPA is currently made up of GT ISP, InternetGhana, AfricaOnline, NCS, IDN= , Tin-Ifa, Third Rail, AfricaExpress, BusyInternet, Netplux, K-Net, ITS, Ea= sy Net, Broadband Home, Ecoband, Dart Communications and GS Telecom. Nanaya= a Tina Owusu-Prempeh is the current President and Eric M.K Osiakwan is the = Secretary. -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/octet-stream Size: 46080 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050311/c7edd75e/attachment.obj From adiel at afrinic.net Sat Mar 12 12:54:07 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] 2005 Elections in AfriNIC region Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050312125309.063c8ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Hello everybody, We are now four (4) days before the closure of Nomination period for both Board (seat 5 and 4) and NRO NC (seat 1 and 2) election which will happen during AfriNIC meeting in Maputo. So far we received no Nomination for the board seats and only one for the NRO AC. It is now possible to send nomination by filling an online form: Board Seat: http://www.afrinic.net/bot/bod-nomination.htm NRO NC: http://www.afrinic.net/aso-nro/nc-nomination.htm For information on the election process in AfriNIC region check the following links: Board members election policy: http://www.afrinic.net/bot/afbot-elp200502.htm NRO NC representative Election Policy: http://www.afrinic.net/aso-nro/afnro-elp200502.htm -------------------- CALL FOR NOMINATION -------------------- Board Call for Nomination: http://www.afrinic.net/bot/bod-nomination-call-2005.htm ASO NC representatives Call for nomination: http://www.afrinic.net/aso-nro/nc-nomination-call-2005.htm Regards. Election Committee. From eric at afrispa.org Sat Mar 19 18:28:49 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: [AfrISPA.Discuss] Disbanding of the Board of the Communication Commission ofKenya (CCK) Message-ID: <200503191828.AA288751740@afrispa.org> Dear Joseph and all, This is the trust of our argument and this supercedes any interest and i hope together we can uphold this as the beckon of hope for our various interests. You guys did a good job in London, congratulations. >Whatever the rights and wrongs of the specific circumstances, it remains a >principle of paramount importance that regulatory authorities are separate >and autonomous from the operations of government. In addition, the >Conference declared that it was imperative that the established momentum >towards regulatory reform and expanded competition is maintained. > >Therefore, the Conference called upon the Government of Kenya to appoint a >new Board and resolve the status of the Director General to a publicly >stated timetable. In order to maintain the confidence of investors both >internationally and locally, the Conference also called for the Government >of Kenya to issue a statement reiterating its commitment to the reform >process. > >* NewCom Africa Conference ? New Communication Technologies and Strategies >to Bridge the Digital Divide in Africa. > > > -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Mon Mar 21 16:01:35 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Transition from RIPE: a lost network Message-ID: <20050321140135.GA32452@generic-nic.net> One network seems to be lost in transition: % whois -h whois.ripe.net 217.77.71.1 % This is the RIPE Whois query server #2. ... inetnum: 217.77.64.0 - 217.77.79.255 org: ORG-AFNC1-RIPE netname: AFRINIC-NET-TRANSFERRED-20050223 descr: This network has been transferred to AFRINIC remarks: These IP addresses are assigned in the AFRINIC region. remarks: Authoritative registration information for this network remarks: is available for query and modification in remarks: the AFRINIC whois database: whois.afrinic.net or remarks: web site: http://www.afrinic.net remarks: The routing registry information (route(6) objects) remarks: may be published in any Routing Registry, including remarks: RIPE Whois Database country: EU # country is really somewhere in African Region admin-c: AFRI-RIPE tech-c: AFRI-RIPE status: ALLOCATED PA mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT mnt-routes: RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT changed: hostmaster@ripe.net 20050223 source: RIPE But, but, but: % whois -h whois.afrinic.net 217.77.71.1 % This is the AfriNIC Whois server. inetnum: 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255 netname: IANA-BLK descr: The whole IPv4 address space What happened to 217.77.64.0/20? (It is Gabon Telecom, by the way, so certainly in Africa.) Who should receive the request for 71.77.217.in-addr.arpa ? From ben.r at econetsatellite.co.uk Tue Mar 22 18:39:29 2005 From: ben.r at econetsatellite.co.uk (Ben Roberts) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] RADB doesnt include Afrinic DB Message-ID: <5D0258B7343899498D3A9D2CE9AB6977CBCCF0@exchange.worldstream.com> Hi, One big problem.... The RADB database queries RIPE/APNIC/ARIN etc, but doesn't seem to pick up anything from Afrinic DB. As all big backbone carriers use RADB to update their filters, the result of this may be that members of Afrinic end up getting filtered. Can someone tell RADB to query the Afrinic DB? Kind Regards, Ben Roberts Econet Satellite Services Ltd Advanced Query Query help Results for Whois Query: whois -h whois.radb.net ' 196.202.240.0' % No entries found for the selected source(s). organisation: ORG-TLL1-AFRINIC org-name: Telecom Lesotho (PTY) LTD org-type: LIR country: LS address: Kingsway address: Maseru address: Lesotho address: PostalCode 100 phone: +266 22211000 fax-no: +266 22211000 e-mail: smithiesr@telecom.co.ls admin-c: RSM39-AFRINIC tech-c: DPL9-AFRINIC mnt-ref: AFRINIC-HM-MNT notify: smithiesr@telecom.co.ls mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT changed: hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050309 source: AFRINIC Ben From aalain at trstech.net Tue Mar 22 19:59:57 2005 From: aalain at trstech.net (AINA ALAIN PATRICK(TRS)) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC Application for Recognition as Regional Internet Registry Public Comment Forum In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050312125309.063c8ec0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050312125309.063c8ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <200503221759.57816.aalain@trstech.net> http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-14mar05.htm --alain -- -- See you at AFNOG 2005 and AFRINIC-II maputo,Mozambique, 17-27 Avril 2005 www.afnog.org,www.afrinic.net From adiel at afrinic.net Tue Mar 22 20:46:43 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Transition from RIPE: a lost network In-Reply-To: <20050321140135.GA32452@generic-nic.net> References: <20050321140135.GA32452@generic-nic.net> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050322204505.05915348@mail.afrinic.net> >But, but, but: > >% whois -h whois.afrinic.net 217.77.71.1 >% This is the AfriNIC Whois server. > >inetnum: 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255 >netname: IANA-BLK >descr: The whole IPv4 address space > >What happened to 217.77.64.0/20? (It is Gabon Telecom, by the way, so >certainly in Africa.) We are working on this. Thanks. Adiel. From adiel at afrinic.net Tue Mar 22 20:50:05 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] RADB doesnt include Afrinic DB In-Reply-To: <5D0258B7343899498D3A9D2CE9AB6977CBCCF0@exchange.worldstrea m.com> References: <5D0258B7343899498D3A9D2CE9AB6977CBCCF0@exchange.worldstream.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050322204953.0309d850@mail.afrinic.net> Hello Ben, >Can someone tell RADB to query the Afrinic DB? We will get in touch with them about that. Regards Adiel. From william at elan.net Tue Mar 22 23:31:33 2005 From: william at elan.net (william(at)elan.net) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] RADB doesnt include Afrinic DB In-Reply-To: <5D0258B7343899498D3A9D2CE9AB6977CBCCF0@exchange.worldstream.com> References: <5D0258B7343899498D3A9D2CE9AB6977CBCCF0@exchange.worldstream.com> Message-ID: Well, its not exactly as there is anything for LACNIC either... However this is not directly AfriNIC issue (unless it wants to make it part of its agenda), the RADB is also not correct name, its RR (Routing Registry) and RADB is just one type of RR that is run by MERIT.EDU. That RR (as do many others) mirrors other RRs and it so happens that both RIPE and APNIC run their own RR, but there are also other RR available and AfriNIC organizations can also directly put data into RADB (as do American ISPs) or they can organize its own RR and ask MERIT to mirror it (or if AfriNIC wants to do that, it can run RR as part of system similar to what RIPE). Also don't confuse RADB with WHOIS and dont assume that if there is no entry in RADB that you'd get filtered, that is absolutly not true. RR is used for router configuratians between ISPs when peering but its not a filter for outside networks. On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Ben Roberts wrote: > Hi, > > One big problem.... > The RADB database queries RIPE/APNIC/ARIN etc, but doesn't seem to pick > up anything from Afrinic DB. > As all big backbone carriers use RADB to update their filters, the > result of this may be that members of Afrinic end up getting filtered. > Can someone tell RADB to query the Afrinic DB? > > Kind Regards, > Ben Roberts > Econet Satellite Services Ltd > > > Advanced Query > Query help > > > Results for Whois Query: > whois -h whois.radb.net ' 196.202.240.0' > > % No entries found for the selected source(s). > > organisation: ORG-TLL1-AFRINIC > org-name: Telecom Lesotho (PTY) LTD > org-type: LIR > country: LS > address: Kingsway > address: Maseru > address: Lesotho > address: PostalCode 100 > phone: +266 22211000 > fax-no: +266 22211000 > e-mail: smithiesr@telecom.co.ls > admin-c: RSM39-AFRINIC > tech-c: DPL9-AFRINIC > mnt-ref: AFRINIC-HM-MNT > notify: smithiesr@telecom.co.ls > mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT > changed: hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050309 > source: AFRINIC > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From adiel at afrinic.net Wed Mar 23 08:00:28 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] RADB doesnt include Afrinic DB In-Reply-To: References: <5D0258B7343899498D3A9D2CE9AB6977CBCCF0@exchange.worldstream.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050323074722.04dcbec0@mail.afrinic.net> Hello, >However this is not directly AfriNIC issue (unless it wants to make it part >of its agenda), the RADB is also not correct name, its RR (Routing Registry) >and RADB is just one type of RR that is run by MERIT.EDU. That RR (as do >many others) mirrors other RRs and it so happens that both RIPE and APNIC >run their own RR, but there are also other RR available and AfriNIC >organizations can also directly put data into RADB (as do American ISPs) >or they can organize its own RR and ask MERIT to mirror it (or if AfriNIC >wants to do that, it can run RR as part of system similar to what RIPE). Exact after investigation RADB only mirror RR data(not WHOIS), a service which AfriNIC do not provide at this time. AfriNIC members could use RIPE NCC as Routing Registry. For more information about how to proceed please contact our IP analyst team at hostmaster@afrinic.net. Thanks. Adiel. >>Hi, >> >>One big problem.... >>The RADB database queries RIPE/APNIC/ARIN etc, but doesn't seem to pick >>up anything from Afrinic DB. >>As all big backbone carriers use RADB to update their filters, the >>result of this may be that members of Afrinic end up getting filtered. >>Can someone tell RADB to query the Afrinic DB? >> >>Kind Regards, >>Ben Roberts >>Econet Satellite Services Ltd >> >> >>Advanced Query >>Query help >> >> >>Results for Whois Query: >>whois -h whois.radb.net ' 196.202.240.0' >> >>% No entries found for the selected source(s). >> >>organisation: ORG-TLL1-AFRINIC >>org-name: Telecom Lesotho (PTY) LTD >>org-type: LIR >>country: LS >>address: Kingsway >>address: Maseru >>address: Lesotho >>address: PostalCode 100 >>phone: +266 22211000 >>fax-no: +266 22211000 >>e-mail: smithiesr@telecom.co.ls >>admin-c: RSM39-AFRINIC >>tech-c: DPL9-AFRINIC >>mnt-ref: AFRINIC-HM-MNT >>notify: smithiesr@telecom.co.ls >>mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT >>changed: hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050309 >>source: AFRINIC >>Ben >> >>_______________________________________________ >>afrinic-discuss mailing list >>afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >>http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From cto at nbi.ispkenya.com Wed Mar 23 09:31:31 2005 From: cto at nbi.ispkenya.com (Brian Longwe) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC Application for Recognition as Regional Internet Registry Public Comment Forum In-Reply-To: <200503221759.57816.aalain@trstech.net> Message-ID: On 22/3/05 8:59 PM, "AINA ALAIN PATRICK(TRS)" wrote: > http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-14mar05.htm > > --alain I think what Alain forgot to mention is that we should all go to this site and submit our statements of support for AfriNIC. Regards, Brian -- Brian Longwe Chief Technology Officer ISP Kenya Ltd. P.O. Box 43042, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 2 444 5959; Fax: +254 2 4446772 E-mail: cto@nbi.ispkenya.com Website: www.ispkenya.com This e-mail message (including any attachments) is intended for the addressee only, and may contain confidential information. The unauthorised use, disclosure or copying of this e-mail or any information contained within it is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the author and delete this e-mail immediately in its entirety. This e-mail message has been swept by a virus checker for the presence of known computer viruses. This statement does not constitute an acceptance of liability on the part of ISP Kenya or its employees in the event of technical or virus issues generated by this e-mail. It is the responsibility of the recipient to take adequate security measures. From timothy at ripe.net Wed Mar 23 11:28:26 2005 From: timothy at ripe.net (Timothy Lowe) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] RADB doesnt include Afrinic DB In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050323074722.04dcbec0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <5D0258B7343899498D3A9D2CE9AB6977CBCCF0@exchange.worldstream.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20050323074722.04dcbec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <20050323092826.GA23839@ripe.net> Hello Adiel and everyone, > Exact after investigation RADB only mirror RR data(not WHOIS), > a service which AfriNIC do not provide at this time. AfriNIC > members could use RIPE NCC as Routing Registry. For more > information about how to proceed please contact our IP analyst > team at hostmaster@afrinic.net. Indeed and this is why those objects containing routing information AS were copied not moved to the AfriNIC whois database. In this way the RIPE whois database routing registry information (we have one database for whois and routing registry info not two seperate ones like ARIN) can act as AfriNIC's routing registry until such time as AfriNIC have their own routing registry function. Route objects for non RIPE IP space can be created using authentication password "RPSL" for the RIPE-NCC-RPSL-MNT mnt-routes maintainer. -- Best Regards Timothy Lowe X-Organization: RIPE Network Coordination Centre X-Phone: +31 20 535 4444 X-Fax: +31 20 535 4445 On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 08:00:28AM +0200, Adiel wrote: > Hello, > > >However this is not directly AfriNIC issue (unless it wants to make it part > >of its agenda), the RADB is also not correct name, its RR (Routing > >Registry) > >and RADB is just one type of RR that is run by MERIT.EDU. That RR (as do > >many others) mirrors other RRs and it so happens that both RIPE and APNIC > >run their own RR, but there are also other RR available and AfriNIC > >organizations can also directly put data into RADB (as do American ISPs) > >or they can organize its own RR and ask MERIT to mirror it (or if AfriNIC > >wants to do that, it can run RR as part of system similar to what RIPE). > > Exact after investigation RADB only mirror RR data(not WHOIS), > a service which AfriNIC do not provide at this time. AfriNIC > members could use RIPE NCC as Routing Registry. For more > information about how to proceed please contact our IP analyst > team at hostmaster@afrinic.net. > > Thanks. > > Adiel. > > >>Hi, > >> > >>One big problem.... > >>The RADB database queries RIPE/APNIC/ARIN etc, but doesn't seem to pick > >>up anything from Afrinic DB. > >>As all big backbone carriers use RADB to update their filters, the > >>result of this may be that members of Afrinic end up getting filtered. > >>Can someone tell RADB to query the Afrinic DB? > >> > >>Kind Regards, > >>Ben Roberts > >>Econet Satellite Services Ltd > >> > >> > >>Advanced Query > >>Query help > >> > >> > >>Results for Whois Query: > >>whois -h whois.radb.net ' 196.202.240.0' > >> > >>% No entries found for the selected source(s). > >> > >>organisation: ORG-TLL1-AFRINIC > >>org-name: Telecom Lesotho (PTY) LTD > >>org-type: LIR > >>country: LS > >>address: Kingsway > >>address: Maseru > >>address: Lesotho > >>address: PostalCode 100 > >>phone: +266 22211000 > >>fax-no: +266 22211000 > >>e-mail: smithiesr@telecom.co.ls > >>admin-c: RSM39-AFRINIC > >>tech-c: DPL9-AFRINIC > >>mnt-ref: AFRINIC-HM-MNT > >>notify: smithiesr@telecom.co.ls > >>mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT > >>changed: hostmaster@afrinic.net 20050309 > >>source: AFRINIC > >>Ben > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>afrinic-discuss mailing list > >>afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > >>http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > >_______________________________________________ > >afrinic-discuss mailing list > >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From adiel at afrinic.net Sun Mar 27 21:43:28 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] NRO NC Nominees: Period of comment Open Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050327134015.05aa6db0@mail.afrinic.net> Dear colleagues, We have received the following nominations for the upcoming NRO NC representative election for AfriNIC Region: Mrs. Sylvia Geha Kezengwa (kenya) M Yaovi Atohoun (Benin) M Jean Robert HOUNTOMEY (Togo) M Ali Drissa BADIEL (Burkina Faso) M Wycliff Ochieng (Kenya) More information on the nominees can be found at: http://www.afrinic.net/aso-nro/nominees.htm A 30 days comment period is now open. You must send your comments to ncnom-comments@afrinic.net with the name of the Nominee in the subject line. More information abour the NRO can be found at: http://www.nro.net More information about the ICANN ASO can be found at: http://aso.icann.org Kind regards Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net ================ See you at AfriNIC-2 and AfNOG 2005 Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005 www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2 www.afnog.org ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Full name: Sylvia Geha Kezengwa Organization : Information Technology Associates Country: Kenya Brief statement: Sylvia's interest in computers sprung immediately she joined campus in Jan 2000.At the United States International University where she was studing her BSc degree in Information Systems and Technology, she landed a job as a Computer User Support in April 2000. The campus had a VSAT Connection over it's 3 campuses (Nairobi, San Diego, Mexico) and she was assisting other personnel during the implementation and post- implementation of the robust link. Currently, the campuses are over 100 and they are interconnected. Since then, Sylvia has been involved in ICT assignments in other companies in Nairobi namely Caltex Oil (K) where she was a Client Support Intern and at Citibank where she introduced, trained and supported users on Citigroup's E-Banking platform, Citidirect. Currently, she manages ICT and provides client support at Information Technology Associates. She is,on a day to day basis,involved in management of our ICT Projects by providing project management through liaison with specific project managers/developers assigned to a project. Sylvia also handles our ICT consultancy assignments spanning various arenas including: document management, procurement, ICT strategies and policies as well as preparation of proposals to be presented to companies to introduce our solutions and bids for consideration by potential clients. Sylvia has gained insight in Internet technologies over the years and I am happy to nominate her for the position. Regards, Haron Wachira, Chief Executive Officer, Information Technology Associates, +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Full Name: M Yaovi Atohoun Organisation: Isoc-Benin Country: Benin Statement: With reference to the NRO NC election, I would like to self nominate myself. I am Yaovi Atohoun, born in 1964 in Togo (West Africa). After my secondary school, I attended an electrical engineering school from 1985 to 1990. After that, I have attended many workshops on Internet technology, wireless technology and policy. In 1992 I moved to Benin where all my job positions until now are in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) area. Internet started in Benin in 1995 and I was with one of the first organizations that helped individuals or other organizations to be introduced to the Internet. Since that period I am very interested and involved in debates and discussions related to the Internet. My professional experience has taken me through many countries especially in Africa. My work includes technical installation, ICT policy actions and project coordinations. I have also been involved in the creation of the assocoation of the West African Telecommunication regulators (WATRA). This is why I am very familiar with ICT environment, Internet resources management, namely the Internet names and numbers issues within the region. I am one of the founders of the Internet Society local chapter ISOC-Benin. I am playing the role of secretary General since 1999. I attended the first AFRINIC meeting in Cotonou where many important steps have been taken and made AFRINIC a reality today. I can see myself confortable to play a role of adviser on IP number resources allocation policies. I look forward to be a member of the NRO NC council. Yours truly +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Full Name: M Jean Robert HOUNTOMEY Organisation: ISERVICES Country: Togo Statement: Jean Robert HOUNTOMEY, is strongly involved in Internet and Networking activities in TOGO and BENIN. He worked in the pioneer team who make the internet connectivity in TOGO in 1987. His position as Technical Manager include the responsibility of the helpdesk and technical administration of the ISP. Since then Jean Robert participate actively in all activities to strength the network and to make it secure .tg domain name policy, helping in .bj domain name policy, working with Togolese and Beninese authority to make them understand the chance Internet is for Africa and pushing them; participating in ISOC activities and since 2003 helping as instructor for AFNOG.. Since 2002 Jean Robert HOUNTOMEY is CEO of ISERVICES (www.iservices.tg) a Togolese company he founded, which builds functional and affordable networks and helps a lot of ISP to start their activities. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Full Name: M Ali Drissa BADIEL Organisation: ONATEL Country: Burkina Faso Brief statement: My name is Ali Drissa BADIEL, head of the Maintenance and Computing Development Department of ONATEL (the National Telco of Burkina Faso, in West Africa). My department is in charge of the national Internet Backbone administration and management and we are also the main ISP and the LIR of Burkina Faso. Concerning my education, I graduated in IT & Telecommunications at the National Institute of Telecommunications (INT) in Evry (France) in 1996. Before that, I got my mastress in physics at the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) in 1993. During my Telecommunications training in Evry, I passed my Cambridge First Certificate (with grade B) in 1995. Since 2000, I've regularly participated in ICANN meetings thanks to the sponsorship of INTIF (Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie, France) and I was also representing my company (ONATEL) as an AfriNIC founding member in Accra (Ghana, 2001). I have a great interest in Internet, first because it is my core business, and second I think that the Internet can help developing countries like African ones to reduce poverty, ignorance and move forward to catch any development opportunity thanks to the Information Society. That's why I am involved and supporting the AfriNIC process and therefore I want to best serve the Internet and the community by presenting my candicacy for NRO NC. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Full Name: Organisation: African regional centre for Computing Country: Kenya Statement: At African Regional Centre for Computing (ARCC) I am responsible for installing new users, setting up of Intranets and networks, computer repair and maintenance and assisting in system administration. I was previously as the head of Training Department (ARCC) for one year. I have also worked with the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) and was in charge of data entry, scanning of voter registration forms, and error corrections. At Harambee Sacco Co-operative society I was responsible for data entry and clerical duties. I have attended a number of internetworking training workshops including the United States Telecommunication Training Institute (USTTI) in USA-2004, African Telecommunication Summit in Mozambique - 2003, Internet Infrastructure workshop in Ghana-2001,Vsat Technology Workshop in South Africa -2001 and 3com Technology Workshop in Nairobi, 2000 . I am also a member of various networking organizations including the African Network Operators Group (AFNOG), East African Internet Association (EAIA), African Internet Service Providers Association (AfrISPA) and the Computer Society of Kenya (CSK). I holds both a Diploma in Computer maintenance and a Diploma in Systems Administration from the Kenya Christian Industrial Training Institute (KCITI). I also has a Certificate in Computer Operations from the African Regional Centre for Computing. From yatoh at intnet.bj Tue Mar 29 19:26:03 2005 From: yatoh at intnet.bj (Yaovi Atohoun) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC Board Nominees: Period of comment Open Message-ID: <003101c53484$656bd3e0$1101a8c0@toshibauser> Dear Colleagues, We have received the following nominations for the upcoming AfriNIC Board Election for the renewal of Seat 5 (Indian Ocean region) and seat 6 (Central region): Central Region M Didier Kasole Rukeratabaro (Democratic Republic of Congo) M Jules Albert Ngamba (Cameroon) M Motumbe Pierre Kasengedia Motumbe (Democratic Republic of Congo) Mrs Mohammed El Bashir (Sudan) M. BOURAGA Gatan (Gabon) Indian Ocean Region Dr Viv Padayatchy (Mauritius) M Kenneth Yiptong (Mauritius) Comment period is open now until April 20, 2005. You must send your comments to bodnom-comments@afrinic.net with the name of the Nominee in the subject line. More information about the nominees can be found at http://www.afrinic.net/bot/nominees2005.htm Kind regards Yaovi Atohoun Board ECOM chair -------------------------------------------------------------- See you at AfriNIC-2 and AfNOG 2005 Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005 www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2 www.afnog.org ========================= Nominees ============================================ Full Name: M Didier Kasole Rukeratabaro Organisation: Roffe Hitech Country: DRC Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement I seek a position of Board member of Afrinic for several reason: I was elected in may 2004 and would like to continue in this critical time Afrinic is starting operation now, i hope i will help the boat to keep moving in right direction. I seek to increase visibility of Afrinic and to ensure continuation of good things Regards +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full name: M Jules Albert Ngamba Organisation: CAMTEL Country: Cameroon Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement: I am the LIR manager of CAMTEL and would like to go deeply into IR and other issues regarding internet policy.I wish to make central africa sub region to become more active in internet policy issues, by initiating discussion with the LIR managers of other countries of the sub region.. Regards. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: Motumbe Pierre Kasengedia Motumbe Organisation: University of Kinshasa / Vodacom Country: DRC Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement: I am a member of Afrinic BoT. I have got a Phd in computer sciences, and I have good experience in IT, computer networking and Internet technologies. Now, I am working as an Associate Professor in computer engineering (Faculty of sciences, math and computer dept.) at the University of Kinshasa and as Network Quality Specialist in the Engineering dept. at Vodacom DRC. I have been implied in some telecom/Internet important projects in my country and I had contributed in creation of some IT/Internet associations (e.g. ISPADRC\). I think my experience in IT and Internet development will allow me to bring a certain value added. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: Mrs Mohammed El Bashir Organisation: Sudan Internet Society "SIS" Country: Sudan Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement: My Name is Mohammed EL Bashir, Founder and Chairman of udan Internet Society "SIS", SIS emerged to serve the Sudanese community and provide l eadership in addressing key issues about the roles and uses of Internet in Sudan Domain Name .SD Registry, SIS is a Certified ICANN ALAC Structure. I been working in Sudan Telecom, responsible for Internet Infrastructure Development, Internet Bandwidth and Applications. Now i am head of IT & Systems Dpt at Open University of Sudan. I am nominating myself to Afrinic BOT because i believe Africnic could be a perfect example of how African can manage their Resources and I would like to help toward that goal and participate in Afrinic evolution process. You can find a summary of my biography at http://www.isoc.sd/hirakia_biography_summary.pdf +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full name: BOURAGA Gaetan Organization: GABON TELECOM Country: GABON Region: Central Africa Brief statement: I am an electronics and industrial data processing engineer, specialized in Internet & Broadband Networks and Backbones Engineering, I am technical contact of the ccTLD ga, member of the International college of AFNIC, representative of the ccTLD ga to the ccNSO and AFTLD, technical contact of the LIR opt.ga at AFRINIC/RIPE NCC. Vice president of the Gabonese association of the free software users and am currently indicate by the Gabonese government to set up ccTLD .gas registry. I have just initiated the installation of an exchange point carrying out the convergence of the corporate networks in GABON to support E-trade. My wish is to contribute to Africa my share to enable him to take up the challenges of the development. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: Dr Viv Padayatchy Organisation: ACT Country: Mauritius Runing for: Indian Ocean Brief Statement: I would like to serve another term on the board of Afrinic +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: M Kenneth Yiptong Organisation: Mauritel International Ltd Country: Mauritius Runing for: Indian Ocean Brief statement Being on the board since Dakar has been a very enriching experience. I feel it is my duty to come back for another and last term to help complete the transition process and ensure AfriNIC administration is set up with a solid foundation. I have been involved in the ICT Industry in Mauritius for many years. I am also a board member of ACT (Local ICT association) & AMPAD (Local mobile phone association). +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050329/06f2417a/attachment.htm From yatoh at intnet.bj Mon Apr 4 18:00:09 2005 From: yatoh at intnet.bj (Yaovi Atohoun) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] REMINDER- AfriNIC Board Nominees: Period of comment Open Message-ID: <003d01c5392f$6a4e9c30$1101a8c0@toshibauser> Dear Colleagues, Chers collegues (la version francaise a la fin) We have received the following nominations for the upcoming AfriNIC Board Election for the renewal of Seat 5 (Indian Ocean region) and seat 6 (Central region): Central Region M Didier Kasole Rukeratabaro (Democratic Republic of Congo) M Jules Albert Ngamba (Cameroon) M Motumbe Pierre Kasengedia Motumbe (Democratic Republic of Congo) Mrs Mohammed El Bashir (Sudan) M. BOURAGA Gatan (Gabon) Indian Ocean Region Dr Viv Padayatchy (Mauritius) M Kenneth Yiptong (Mauritius) Comment period is open now until April 20, 2005. You must send your comments to bodnom-comments@afrinic.net with the name of the Nominee in the subject line. More information about the nominees can be found at http://www.afrinic.net/bot/nominees2005.htm Kind regards Yaovi Atohoun Board ECOM chair -------------------------------------------------------------- See you at AfriNIC-2 and AfNOG 2005 Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005 www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2 www.afnog.org ========================= Nominees ============================================ Full Name: M Didier Kasole Rukeratabaro Organisation: Roffe Hitech Country: DRC Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement I seek a position of Board member of Afrinic for several reason: I was elected in may 2004 and would like to continue in this critical time Afrinic is starting operation now, i hope i will help the boat to keep moving in right direction. I seek to increase visibility of Afrinic and to ensure continuation of good things Regards +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full name: M Jules Albert Ngamba Organisation: CAMTEL Country: Cameroon Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement: I am the LIR manager of CAMTEL and would like to go deeply into IR and other issues regarding internet policy.I wish to make central africa sub region to become more active in internet policy issues, by initiating discussion with the LIR managers of other countries of the sub region.. Regards. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: Motumbe Pierre Kasengedia Motumbe Organisation: University of Kinshasa / Vodacom Country: DRC Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement: I am a member of Afrinic BoT. I have got a Phd in computer sciences, and I have good experience in IT, computer networking and Internet technologies. Now, I am working as an Associate Professor in computer engineering (Faculty of sciences, math and computer dept.) at the University of Kinshasa and as Network Quality Specialist in the Engineering dept. at Vodacom DRC. I have been implied in some telecom/Internet important projects in my country and I had contributed in creation of some IT/Internet associations (e.g. ISPADRC\). I think my experience in IT and Internet development will allow me to bring a certain value added. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: Mrs Mohammed El Bashir Organisation: Sudan Internet Society "SIS" Country: Sudan Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement: My Name is Mohammed EL Bashir, Founder and Chairman of udan Internet Society "SIS", SIS emerged to serve the Sudanese community and provide l eadership in addressing key issues about the roles and uses of Internet in Sudan Domain Name .SD Registry, SIS is a Certified ICANN ALAC Structure. I been working in Sudan Telecom, responsible for Internet Infrastructure Development, Internet Bandwidth and Applications. Now i am head of IT & Systems Dpt at Open University of Sudan. I am nominating myself to Afrinic BOT because i believe Africnic could be a perfect example of how African can manage their Resources and I would like to help toward that goal and participate in Afrinic evolution process. You can find a summary of my biography at http://www.isoc.sd/hirakia_biography_summary.pdf +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full name: BOURAGA Gaetan Organization: GABON TELECOM Country: GABON Region: Central Africa Brief statement: I am an electronics and industrial data processing engineer, specialized in Internet & Broadband Networks and Backbones Engineering, I am technical contact of the ccTLD ga, member of the International college of AFNIC, representative of the ccTLD ga to the ccNSO and AFTLD, technical contact of the LIR opt.ga at AFRINIC/RIPE NCC. Vice president of the Gabonese association of the free software users and am currently indicate by the Gabonese government to set up ccTLD .gas registry. I have just initiated the installation of an exchange point carrying out the convergence of the corporate networks in GABON to support E-trade. My wish is to contribute to Africa my share to enable him to take up the challenges of the development. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: Dr Viv Padayatchy Organisation: ACT Country: Mauritius Runing for: Indian Ocean Brief Statement: I would like to serve another term on the board of Afrinic +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: M Kenneth Yiptong Organisation: Mauritel International Ltd Country: Mauritius Runing for: Indian Ocean Brief statement Being on the board since Dakar has been a very enriching experience. I feel it is my duty to come back for another and last term to help complete the transition process and ensure AfriNIC administration is set up with a solid foundation. I have been involved in the ICT Industry in Mauritius for many years. I am also a board member of ACT (Local ICT association) & AMPAD (Local mobile phone association). +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050404/45a4d2f6/attachment.htm From yatoh at intnet.bj Mon Apr 4 19:39:12 2005 From: yatoh at intnet.bj (Yaovi Atohoun) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Rappel - Renouvellement de sieges au sein du conseil d'administration Message-ID: <001e01c5393d$3a915b00$1101a8c0@toshibauser> Chers Collegues, Nous avons re?u les nominations suivantes pour les si?ges ? renouveller au sein du Conseil d'Administration d'AfriNIC Central Region M Didier Kasole Rukeratabaro (Democratic Republic of Congo) M Jules Albert Ngamba (Cameroon) M Motumbe Pierre Kasengedia Motumbe (Democratic Republic of Congo) Mrs Mohammed El Bashir (Sudan) M. BOURAGA Gatan (Gabon) Indian Ocean Region Dr Viv Padayatchy (Mauritius) M Kenneth Yiptong (Mauritius) Nous souhaiterions recevoir vos commentaires sur ces candidatures. Les commentaires seront recus jusqu'au 20 Avrril , 2005. Ils seront envoy?s ? bodnom-comments@afrinic.net avec le nom du nomin? comme Sujet. Pour plus d'information sur les nomin?s, pri?re visiter http://www.afrinic.net/bot/nominees2005.htm Meilleures salutations Yaovi Atohoun Board ECOM chair -------------------------------------------------------------- AfriNIC-2 et AfNOG 2005 Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005 www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2 www.afnog.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050404/60b82f65/attachment.htm From dogwallah at gmail.com Fri Apr 8 15:15:57 2005 From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! Message-ID: [apologies for cross-posting] Greetings All, A few moments ago, the ICANN Board just approved a motion officially recognising AfriNIC as the 5th Regional Internet Registry. Congratulations to all those who have worked to bring this project to fruition. -- Cheers, McTim From cto at nbi.ispkenya.com Fri Apr 8 15:23:50 2005 From: cto at nbi.ispkenya.com (Brian Longwe) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: [afnog] AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Excellent News! Africa can now stand up and be counted. Well done Adiel and team and all those who have held the vision passionately for the past 7 years. A special thank you to Dr. Nii Quaynor for staying focused and facilitating smooth handover to us new Board members. Regards, Brian On 8/4/05 4:15 PM, "McTim" wrote: > [apologies for cross-posting] > > Greetings All, > > A few moments ago, the ICANN Board just approved a motion officially > recognising AfriNIC as the 5th Regional Internet Registry. > > Congratulations to all those who have worked to bring this project to > fruition. -- Brian Longwe Chief Technology Officer ISP Kenya Ltd. P.O. 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From TAmoussougbo at uneca.org Fri Apr 8 15:43:08 2005 From: TAmoussougbo at uneca.org (Thierry Amoussougbo) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Congratulations for all.. Adiel and the board well done!!! Thierry H. Amoussougbo Regional Adviser- ECA E-mail : tamoussougbo@uneca.org McTim To Sent by: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net, afrinic-discuss-b Discuss@afrispa.org, ounces@afrinic.ne africa@wsis-cs.org, afnog@afnog.org t cc Subject 04/08/2005 04:15 [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC now PM officially a fully fledged RIR! Please respond to McTim ; Please respond to AfriNIC Discuss [apologies for cross-posting] Greetings All, A few moments ago, the ICANN Board just approved a motion officially recognising AfriNIC as the 5th Regional Internet Registry. Congratulations to all those who have worked to bring this project to fruition. -- Cheers, McTim _______________________________________________ afrinic-discuss mailing list afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From robert at ecoband.net Fri Apr 8 16:29:55 2005 From: robert at ecoband.net (Jean Robert HOUNTOMEY) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! References: Message-ID: <009701c53c47$909d4e20$8cbd383e@iservices> Great .... RH ----- Original Message ----- From: "McTim" To: ; ; ; Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 1:15 PM Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! > [apologies for cross-posting] > > Greetings All, > > A few moments ago, the ICANN Board just approved a motion officially > recognising AfriNIC as the 5th Regional Internet Registry. > > Congratulations to all those who have worked to bring this project to fruition. > > -- > > Cheers, > > McTim > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From simacyr at nb.sympatico.ca Fri Apr 8 16:42:07 2005 From: simacyr at nb.sympatico.ca (Cyrille Simard) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: [afnog] AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4256983F.4020204@nb.sympatico.ca> Hi everyone / Bonjour ? tous Congratulations to all of those who had the vision and kept it alive and kicking for the past 7 years ! I have a special thought for my friend and former colleague Pierre Ouedraogo who had been instrumental to that process from day one. F?licitations ? tous ceux et celles qui ont eu la vison et qui ont poursuivi l'objectif avec acharnement au cours des 7 derni?res ann?es ! Une pens?e sp?ciale pour mon ami et ancien coll?gue Pierre Ouedraogo qui a ?t? un ?l?ment moteur du processus depuis le d?but. cordialement Cyrille Simard, PDG NordSud.org From adiel at afrinic.net Fri Apr 8 16:48:23 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Hello All, Yes it happened just few minutes ago! Africa has its registry! As I said it few minutes ago, we can not celebrate this great moment without expressing our thanks to the pioneers of this project who worked on the very first proposal in 1997 i will name Nii Quaynor, Alan Barett, Nashwa Abdel-Baki and Sana Belamine and Randy Bush. We can tell them today that we make their dream a reality. I will also thank everyone who all along this process work to support it in various way. I will particularly thank my staff, AfriNIC board and the NRO for their support. We now have to show to the rest of the community that having our registry is not the end, but we have to work to make Africa fully part of the Internet Technical coordination system...so the work is still ahead and I'm confident that it will be done. Congratulation AfriNIC, Congratulation Africa! Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net ================ See you at AfriNIC-2 and AfNOG 2005 Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005 www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2 www.afnog.org From adiel at afrinic.net Fri Apr 8 16:48:23 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Hello All, Yes it happened just few minutes ago! Africa has its registry! As I said it few minutes ago, we can not celebrate this great moment without expressing our thanks to the pioneers of this project who worked on the very first proposal in 1997 i will name Nii Quaynor, Alan Barett, Nashwa Abdel-Baki and Sana Belamine and Randy Bush. We can tell them today that we make their dream a reality. I will also thank everyone who all along this process work to support it in various way. I will particularly thank my staff, AfriNIC board and the NRO for their support. We now have to show to the rest of the community that having our registry is not the end, but we have to work to make Africa fully part of the Internet Technical coordination system...so the work is still ahead and I'm confident that it will be done. Congratulation AfriNIC, Congratulation Africa! Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net ================ See you at AfriNIC-2 and AfNOG 2005 Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005 www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2 www.afnog.org From quaynor at ghana.com Fri Apr 8 17:07:38 2005 From: quaynor at ghana.com (Nii N. Quaynor) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <20050408150332.M30668@ghana.com> On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:48:23 +0200, Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote > Congratulation AfriNIC, Congratulation Africa! > Congratulations to AfriNIC and the RIR community! continue to move aggressively on your objectives and deliverables. good stuff. nii -- Ghana.com Services (http://webmail.ghana.com) From theo at flame.co.za Fri Apr 8 17:08:37 2005 From: theo at flame.co.za (Theo Kramer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <1112972917.2989.21.camel@josh> Well done! On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:48, Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote: > Hello All, > > Yes it happened just few minutes ago! Africa has its registry! > As I said it few minutes ago, we can not celebrate this great > moment without expressing our thanks to the pioneers of this > project who worked on the very first proposal in 1997 i will > name Nii Quaynor, Alan Barett, Nashwa Abdel-Baki and Sana > Belamine and Randy Bush. We can tell them today that we make > their dream a reality. > > I will also thank everyone who all along this process work to > support it in various way. I will particularly thank my staff, > AfriNIC board and the NRO for their support. > > We now have to show to the rest of the community that having > our registry is not the end, but we have to work to make Africa > fully part of the Internet Technical coordination system...so > the work is still ahead and I'm confident that it will be > done. > > Congratulation AfriNIC, Congratulation Africa! > > > Adiel A. Akplogan > CEO, AfriNIC > www.afrinic.net > ================ > See you at AfriNIC-2 and AfNOG 2005 > Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005 > www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2 > www.afnog.org > > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss -- Regards Theo From paulos at sdnp.org.mw Fri Apr 8 12:21:32 2005 From: paulos at sdnp.org.mw (Dr Paulos Nyirenda) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: congrats - Re: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <4256774C.4283.FFF9D@localhost> congratulations ... lovely ceremony here in mdpq ... lets now make it work, regards On 8 Apr 2005 at 16:15, McTim wrote: > [apologies for cross-posting] > > Greetings All, > > A few moments ago, the ICANN Board just approved a motion officially > recognising AfriNIC as the 5th Regional Internet Registry. > > Congratulations to all those who have worked to bring this project to fruition. > > -- > > Cheers, > > McTim > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From paulos at sdnp.org.mw Fri Apr 8 12:21:32 2005 From: paulos at sdnp.org.mw (Dr Paulos Nyirenda) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: congrats - Re: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <4256774C.4283.FFF9D@localhost> congratulations ... lovely ceremony here in mdpq ... lets now make it work, regards On 8 Apr 2005 at 16:15, McTim wrote: > [apologies for cross-posting] > > Greetings All, > > A few moments ago, the ICANN Board just approved a motion officially > recognising AfriNIC as the 5th Regional Internet Registry. > > Congratulations to all those who have worked to bring this project to fruition. > > -- > > Cheers, > > McTim > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From klohento at panos-ao.org Fri Apr 8 17:55:08 2005 From: klohento at panos-ao.org (Ken Lohento) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: Congratulations !!.. And special thanks to all the pioneers of the initiative! And like Adiel I would say "We now have to show to the rest of the community that having our registry is not the end, but we have to work to make Africa fully part of the Internet Technical coordination system.." Ken Lohento Panos Institute West Africa ICT Programme - CIPACO project (Centre for International ICT Policies for Central and West Africa) www.panos-ao.org ; www.cipaco.org From eric at afrispa.org Fri Apr 8 19:03:06 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Nii, "Africa stands TALL on your shoulders" Message-ID: <200504081903.AA23201288@afrispa.org> We would keep the fire burning. Eric here ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Nii N. Quaynor" Reply-To: AfriNIC Discuss Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 16:07:38 +0100 >On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:48:23 +0200, Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote >> Congratulation AfriNIC, Congratulation Africa! >> > >Congratulations to AfriNIC and the RIR community! continue to move >aggressively on your objectives and deliverables. good stuff. nii >-- >Ghana.com Services (http://webmail.ghana.com) > >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- From yatoh at intnet.bj Sat Apr 9 05:45:51 2005 From: yatoh at intnet.bj (Yaovi Atohoun) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <002901c53cb6$a79ee510$1101a8c0@toshibauser> This is a very good news. Many thanks to the pioneers, Adiel, the AfriNIC boards and the whole African community. Yaovi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adiel A. AKPLOGAN" To: "AfriNIC Discuss" ; "McTim" ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 6:48 AM Subject: Re: [afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! > Hello All, > > Yes it happened just few minutes ago! Africa has its registry! > As I said it few minutes ago, we can not celebrate this great > moment without expressing our thanks to the pioneers of this > project who worked on the very first proposal in 1997 i will > name Nii Quaynor, Alan Barett, Nashwa Abdel-Baki and Sana > Belamine and Randy Bush. We can tell them today that we make > their dream a reality. > > I will also thank everyone who all along this process work to > support it in various way. I will particularly thank my staff, > AfriNIC board and the NRO for their support. > > We now have to show to the rest of the community that having > our registry is not the end, but we have to work to make Africa > fully part of the Internet Technical coordination system...so > the work is still ahead and I'm confident that it will be > done. > > Congratulation AfriNIC, Congratulation Africa! > > > Adiel A. Akplogan > CEO, AfriNIC > www.afrinic.net > ================ > See you at AfriNIC-2 and AfNOG 2005 > Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005 > www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2 > www.afnog.org > > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > > From abulley at ghana.com Sat Apr 9 01:06:32 2005 From: abulley at ghana.com (Ayitey Bulley) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <42570E78.20500@ghana.com> Great News.... Congrats Adiel and the whole team. --Ayitey Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote: > Hello All, > > Yes it happened just few minutes ago! Africa has its registry! > As I said it few minutes ago, we can not celebrate this great > moment without expressing our thanks to the pioneers of this > project who worked on the very first proposal in 1997 i will > name Nii Quaynor, Alan Barett, Nashwa Abdel-Baki and Sana > Belamine and Randy Bush. We can tell them today that we make > their dream a reality. > > I will also thank everyone who all along this process work to > support it in various way. I will particularly thank my staff, > AfriNIC board and the NRO for their support. > > We now have to show to the rest of the community that having > our registry is not the end, but we have to work to make Africa > fully part of the Internet Technical coordination system...so > the work is still ahead and I'm confident that it will be > done. > > Congratulation AfriNIC, Congratulation Africa! > > > Adiel A. Akplogan > CEO, AfriNIC > www.afrinic.net > ================ > See you at AfriNIC-2 and AfNOG 2005 > Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005 > www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2 > www.afnog.org > > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > > From mouhamet at next.sn Mon Apr 11 00:00:05 2005 From: mouhamet at next.sn (Mouhamet Diop NEXT) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] RE: [afnog] Re: AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: <20050410055235.GA2026@apb-laptoy.apb.alt.za> Message-ID: <200504102200.j3AM0MV13712@santee.icann.org> Allen, You are one of the pioners (founders). I joined my congratulations to Allaji Nii , Tarek, Bellamine, etc, and as you can see on the ICANN mAr Del Plata records, to all organisations and individuals who spent a lot of time in it (afrinic Board members, african friends,etc). Congratulations Mouhamet -----Original Message----- From: afnog-bounces@afnog.org [mailto:afnog-bounces@afnog.org] On Behalf Of Alan Barrett Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 7:53 AM To: afrinic-discuss@frinic.org.apb.alt.za; afnog@afnog.org Subject: [afnog] Re: AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! On Fri, 08 Apr 2005, Randy Bush wrote: > congratulations! and deep thanks to you, nii, alan, and other hard > working, patient, and quiet folk who made this happen over almost a > decade. I'd like to say that it would never have happened without Jon Postel's vision, Randy's encouragement early in 1997, Adiel's amazing work over the past two years, all the support we received from the other RIRs ever since the first draft proposals, and of course the support of the African community. --apb (Alan Barrett) _______________________________________________ afnog mailing list From yatoh at intnet.bj Mon Apr 11 19:41:40 2005 From: yatoh at intnet.bj (Yaovi Atohoun) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] REMINDER- AfriNIC Board Nominees: Period of comment Open Message-ID: <001001c53ebd$bb43a200$1101a8c0@toshibauser> Dear Colleagues, We have received the following nominations for the upcoming AfriNIC Board Election for the renewal of Seat 5 (Indian Ocean region) and seat 6 (Central region): Central Region M Didier Kasole Rukeratabaro (Democratic Republic of Congo) M Jules Albert Ngamba (Cameroon) M Motumbe Pierre Kasengedia Motumbe (Democratic Republic of Congo) Mrs Mohammed El Bashir (Sudan) M. BOURAGA Gatan (Gabon) Indian Ocean Region Dr Viv Padayatchy (Mauritius) M Kenneth Yiptong (Mauritius) Comment period is open now until April 20, 2005. You must send your comments to bodnom-comments@afrinic.net with the name of the Nominee in the subject line. More information about the nominees can be found at http://www.afrinic.net/bot/nominees2005.htm Kind regards Yaovi Atohoun Board ECOM chair -------------------------------------------------------------- See you at AfriNIC-2 and AfNOG 2005 Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005 www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2 www.afnog.org ========================= Nominees ============================================ Full Name: M Didier Kasole Rukeratabaro Organisation: Roffe Hitech Country: DRC Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement I seek a position of Board member of Afrinic for several reason: I was elected in may 2004 and would like to continue in this critical time Afrinic is starting operation now, i hope i will help the boat to keep moving in right direction. I seek to increase visibility of Afrinic and to ensure continuation of good things Regards +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full name: M Jules Albert Ngamba Organisation: CAMTEL Country: Cameroon Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement: I am the LIR manager of CAMTEL and would like to go deeply into IR and other issues regarding internet policy.I wish to make central africa sub region to become more active in internet policy issues, by initiating discussion with the LIR managers of other countries of the sub region.. Regards. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: Motumbe Pierre Kasengedia Motumbe Organisation: University of Kinshasa / Vodacom Country: DRC Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement: I am a member of Afrinic BoT. I have got a Phd in computer sciences, and I have good experience in IT, computer networking and Internet technologies. Now, I am working as an Associate Professor in computer engineering (Faculty of sciences, math and computer dept.) at the University of Kinshasa and as Network Quality Specialist in the Engineering dept. at Vodacom DRC. I have been implied in some telecom/Internet important projects in my country and I had contributed in creation of some IT/Internet associations (e.g. ISPADRC\). I think my experience in IT and Internet development will allow me to bring a certain value added. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: Mrs Mohammed El Bashir Organisation: Sudan Internet Society "SIS" Country: Sudan Runing for: Central Africa Brief statement: My Name is Mohammed EL Bashir, Founder and Chairman of udan Internet Society "SIS", SIS emerged to serve the Sudanese community and provide l eadership in addressing key issues about the roles and uses of Internet in Sudan Domain Name .SD Registry, SIS is a Certified ICANN ALAC Structure. I been working in Sudan Telecom, responsible for Internet Infrastructure Development, Internet Bandwidth and Applications. Now i am head of IT & Systems Dpt at Open University of Sudan. I am nominating myself to Afrinic BOT because i believe Africnic could be a perfect example of how African can manage their Resources and I would like to help toward that goal and participate in Afrinic evolution process. You can find a summary of my biography at http://www.isoc.sd/hirakia_biography_summary.pdf +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full name: BOURAGA Gaetan Organization: GABON TELECOM Country: GABON Region: Central Africa Brief statement: I am an electronics and industrial data processing engineer, specialized in Internet & Broadband Networks and Backbones Engineering, I am technical contact of the ccTLD ga, member of the International college of AFNIC, representative of the ccTLD ga to the ccNSO and AFTLD, technical contact of the LIR opt.ga at AFRINIC/RIPE NCC. Vice president of the Gabonese association of the free software users and am currently indicate by the Gabonese government to set up ccTLD .gas registry. I have just initiated the installation of an exchange point carrying out the convergence of the corporate networks in GABON to support E-trade. My wish is to contribute to Africa my share to enable him to take up the challenges of the development. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: Dr Viv Padayatchy Organisation: ACT Country: Mauritius Runing for: Indian Ocean Brief Statement: I would like to serve another term on the board of Afrinic +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ Full Name: M Kenneth Yiptong Organisation: Mauritel International Ltd Country: Mauritius Runing for: Indian Ocean Brief statement Being on the board since Dakar has been a very enriching experience. I feel it is my duty to come back for another and last term to help complete the transition process and ensure AfriNIC administration is set up with a solid foundation. I have been involved in the ICT Industry in Mauritius for many years. I am also a board member of ACT (Local ICT association) & AMPAD (Local mobile phone association). +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050411/09ca5754/attachment.htm From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Mon Apr 11 15:43:31 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic and the reverse delegation Message-ID: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> Now that former RIPE blocks have been transferred to Afrinic, what is the process to request in-addr.arpa delegations? I was familiar with the RIPE process but now, I do not find a template in ? From nashwa at mailer.eun.eg Mon Apr 11 17:10:19 2005 From: nashwa at mailer.eun.eg (Nashwa Abdel-Baki) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050408155119.05385ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <425A935B.4000007@mailer.eun.eg> Dear Adiel, Dear all, How good to see the dream coming true. It is amazing to go back to the session of Geneva in 98, as far as I remember, when the first document was proposed. It was a wish and challenge to be considered first by the African community. It is wonderful to see it now recognized by the whole Internet community. I wish I was also able to participate with the progress of this process. Thanks to all of you and wish all the best for our beautiful continent. I also would like to thank everyone has participated to this work and I won't forget to give special thanks to Randy Bush who has always dedicated his time and heart for African challenges. Nashwa Adiel A. AKPLOGAN wrote: > Hello All, > > Yes it happened just few minutes ago! Africa has its registry! > As I said it few minutes ago, we can not celebrate this great > moment without expressing our thanks to the pioneers of this > project who worked on the very first proposal in 1997 i will > name Nii Quaynor, Alan Barett, Nashwa Abdel-Baki and Sana > Belamine and Randy Bush. We can tell them today that we make > their dream a reality. > > I will also thank everyone who all along this process work to > support it in various way. I will particularly thank my staff, > AfriNIC board and the NRO for their support. > > We now have to show to the rest of the community that having > our registry is not the end, but we have to work to make Africa > fully part of the Internet Technical coordination system...so > the work is still ahead and I'm confident that it will be > done. > > Congratulation AfriNIC, Congratulation Africa! > > > Adiel A. Akplogan > CEO, AfriNIC > www.afrinic.net > ================ > See you at AfriNIC-2 and AfNOG 2005 > Maputo, Mozambique 24-27 April 2005 > www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-2 > www.afnog.org > > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > > From dogwallah at gmail.com Mon Apr 11 18:08:26 2005 From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> Message-ID: Hi Stephane, whois -h whois.afrinic.net -t domain ? You can always use the web as well: http://www.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois gives: % This is the AfriNIC Whois server. domain: [mandatory] [single] [primary/look-up key] descr: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] org: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] admin-c: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] tech-c: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] zone-c: [mandatory] [multiple] [inverse key] nserver: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] sub-dom: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] dom-net: [optional] [multiple] [ ] remarks: [optional] [multiple] [ ] notify: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] mnt-by: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] mnt-lower: [optional] [multiple] [inverse key] refer: [optional] [single] [ ] changed: [mandatory] [multiple] [ ] source: [mandatory] [single] [ ] I believe the procedure is the same as RIPE DB (hierarchical auth rules apply). Apparently the one diff is that domain object creation is no guarantee of successful reverse (use DiG later to check on DNS entry creation). Of course, you need to have a person object to use as admin, etc. Cheers, Cheers, McTim nic-hdl: TMCG On Apr 11, 2005 4:43 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > Now that former RIPE blocks have been transferred to Afrinic, what is > the process to request in-addr.arpa delegations? I was familiar with > the RIPE process but now, I do not find a template in > ? > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > -- From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Mon Apr 11 23:05:26 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> Message-ID: <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:08:26PM +0300, McTim wrote a message of 63 lines which said: > whois -h whois.afrinic.net -t domain ? With GNU whois, it is "whois -h whois.afrinic.net -- -t domain" :-) > I believe the procedure is the same as RIPE DB (hierarchical auth > rules apply). OK, I should have thought of it. Unfortunately, there is no test-dbm@afrinic.net, only a auto-dbm@afrinic.net so I really created the in-addr.arpa :-( I wonder what permission checking is in place. inetnum 217.64.96.0 - 217.64.96.255 has a maintainer, has no "mnt-domains" but I was able to create 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa (let's see if it is actually delegated). > Apparently the one diff is that domain object creation is no > guarantee of successful reverse (use DiG later to check on DNS entry > creation). Wait and see... From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Mon Apr 11 23:08:49 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> Message-ID: <20050411210849.GA29470@sources.org> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 07:08:26PM +0300, McTim wrote a message of 63 lines which said: > Apparently the one diff is that domain object creation is no > guarantee of successful reverse Like it was in RIPE two years ago when you had to create the object *and* to request a delegation? But where to request the delegation? From ernest at afrinic.net Tue Apr 12 01:04:52 2005 From: ernest at afrinic.net (Ernest Byaruhanga) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> Message-ID: <425B0294.4060304@afrinic.net> >> I believe the procedure is the same as RIPE DB (hierarchical >> auth rules apply). > I wonder what permission checking is in place. inetnum > 217.64.96.0 - 217.64.96.255 has a maintainer, has no > "mnt-domains" but I was able to create 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa if no "mnt-domains" is defined in the inetnum, the "mnt-lower" takes over. regards, ernest. From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Tue Apr 12 09:44:48 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: <425B0294.4060304@afrinic.net> References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> <425B0294.4060304@afrinic.net> Message-ID: <20050412074448.GA5507@nic.fr> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 01:04:52AM +0200, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote a message of 17 lines which said: > >I wonder what permission checking is in place. inetnum > >217.64.96.0 - 217.64.96.255 has a maintainer, has no > >"mnt-domains" but I was able to create 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa > > if no "mnt-domains" is defined in the inetnum, the "mnt-lower" > takes over. There is no mnt-lower, only a mnt-by which protects the inetnum but apparently not the domain in-addr.arpa. From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Tue Apr 12 09:56:25 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> Message-ID: <20050412075625.GB5507@nic.fr> On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:05:26PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote a message of 29 lines which said: > I wonder what permission checking is in place. inetnum 217.64.96.0 - > 217.64.96.255 has a maintainer, has no "mnt-domains" but I was able > to create 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa (let's see if it is actually > delegated). No, it was not. Which is a good thing for the security but we are back to the original question: how to request an in-addr.arpa delegation, since creating the object in the database is not sufficient? From dogwallah at gmail.com Tue Apr 12 10:24:38 2005 From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: <20050412075625.GB5507@nic.fr> References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> <20050412075625.GB5507@nic.fr> Message-ID: Hi Stephane, On Apr 12, 2005 10:56 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:05:26PM +0200, > Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote > a message of 29 lines which said: (snip) > No, it was not. Which is a good thing for the security but we are back > to the original question: how to request an in-addr.arpa delegation, > since creating the object in the database is not sufficient? Well there is a "locked" mntner on the inetnum, so contact hostmaster@afrinic to get this sorted. Ernest was correct, the reverse delegation process looks at the mntner on the inetnum, and if no mnt-domains, it then reverts to the mnt-lower. In the abscence of mnt-lower, it looks @ mnt-by of inetnum. You also have to pass the mntner on the domain object (which is non-existent in this case). Dig says "non-existent domain": ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> @dogon.sotelma.ml soa 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 17255 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 So, I would: 1. make sure your ns is auth for the zone 2. then remove the domain you just created 3. Have Afrinic remove their locked mntner 4. Have Sotelma add their mntner on this ASSIGNED PA object (and mnt-lower or mnt-domains) 5. resend the domain object (this time with a mnt-by) and: password: clear text pword for the mntner of inetnum password: clear text pword for the mntner of domain You only have to use one pword line if the are the same mntner. I am sure Ernest will set me straight if I have got it wrong ;-) Cheers, McTim nic-hdl: TMCG From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Tue Apr 12 10:31:53 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> <20050412075625.GB5507@nic.fr> Message-ID: <20050412083153.GA9001@nic.fr> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:24:38AM +0300, McTim wrote a message of 48 lines which said: > Well there is a "locked" mntner on the inetnum, so contact > hostmaster@afrinic to get this sorted. No, no it is not my object, so it is a good thing it is locked. > Ernest was correct, the reverse delegation process looks at the > mntner on the inetnum, and if no mnt-domains, it then reverts to the > mnt-lower. In the abscence of mnt-lower, it looks @ mnt-by of > inetnum. This is false. I was able to create the domain object despite the fact that I was anonymous. (I put my email address in the changed field, otherwise, you would not know it is me.) > Dig says "non-existent domain": Yes, as in RIPE two years ago, creation of the in-addr.arpa domain object and actual delegation seems separated. > 5. resend the domain object (this time with a mnt-by) and: Do you mean the actual delegation will take place, if I pass authentication? I seriously doubt it, it is not documented and I received no error message (and the domain was created). From ernest at afrinic.net Tue Apr 12 11:41:16 2005 From: ernest at afrinic.net (Ernest Byaruhanga) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: <20050412083153.GA9001@nic.fr> References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> <20050412075625.GB5507@nic.fr> <20050412083153.GA9001@nic.fr> Message-ID: <425B97BC.7020403@afrinic.net> > Do you mean the actual delegation will take place, if I pass > authentication? yes! > I seriously doubt it, it is not documented and I received no > error message (and the domain was created). documentation will be online soon! regards, ernest. From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Wed Apr 13 09:58:56 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Security hole in the procedure? (Was: Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: <425B97BC.7020403@afrinic.net> References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> <20050412075625.GB5507@nic.fr> <20050412083153.GA9001@nic.fr> <425B97BC.7020403@afrinic.net> Message-ID: <20050413075856.GA22988@nic.fr> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:41:16AM +0200, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote a message of 16 lines which said: > >Do you mean the actual delegation will take place, if I pass > >authentication? > > yes! Well, I did nothing (and specially not fixed the authentication since I'm not the Sotelma) and the domain was nevertheless delegated this night. ~ % dig @ns-pri.ripe.net NS 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @ns-pri.ripe.net NS 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1091 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;96.64.217.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa. 172800 IN NS ciwara.sotelma.ml. 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa. 172800 IN NS dogon.sotelma.ml. I assume some sort of cron-driven job found the domain object and added it to the zone. This is technically fine but it seems a serious security hole in Afrinic: I was able to delegate an in-addr.arpa without any authority on the inetnum and without being a LIR. From ernest at afrinic.net Wed Apr 13 11:18:49 2005 From: ernest at afrinic.net (Ernest Byaruhanga) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Security hole in the procedure? (Was: Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: <20050413075856.GA22988@nic.fr> References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> <20050412075625.GB5507@nic.fr> <20050412083153.GA9001@nic.fr> <425B97BC.7020403@afrinic.net> <20050413075856.GA22988@nic.fr> Message-ID: <425CE3F9.6050800@afrinic.net> hi Stephane, Thanks - we'll look at this asap. regards, ernest Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:41:16AM +0200, > Ernest Byaruhanga wrote > a message of 16 lines which said: > > >>>Do you mean the actual delegation will take place, if I pass >>>authentication? >> >>yes! > > > Well, I did nothing (and specially not fixed the authentication since > I'm not the Sotelma) and the domain was nevertheless delegated this > night. > > ~ % dig @ns-pri.ripe.net NS 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa > > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @ns-pri.ripe.net NS 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1091 > ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;96.64.217.in-addr.arpa. IN NS > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa. 172800 IN NS ciwara.sotelma.ml. > 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa. 172800 IN NS dogon.sotelma.ml. > > I assume some sort of cron-driven job found the domain object and > added it to the zone. This is technically fine but it seems a serious > security hole in Afrinic: I was able to delegate an in-addr.arpa > without any authority on the inetnum and without being a LIR. > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 392 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050413/5fb2a973/signature.bin From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Wed Apr 13 11:36:15 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Afrinic and the reverse delegation In-Reply-To: References: <20050411134331.GA10908@sources.org> <20050411210526.GA29248@sources.org> <20050412075625.GB5507@nic.fr> Message-ID: <20050413093615.GA23310@nic.fr> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:24:38AM +0300, McTim wrote a message of 48 lines which said: > Ernest was correct, the reverse delegation process looks at the > mntner on the inetnum, and if no mnt-domains, it then reverts to the > mnt-lower. In the abscence of mnt-lower, it looks @ mnt-by of > inetnum. You also have to pass the mntner on the domain object > (which is non-existent in this case). This is not what I observed (inetnum 217.64.96.0 - 217.64.96.255 is still protected by AFRINIC-LOCKED-MNT and I was nevertheless able to create 96.64.217.in-addr.arpa anonymously). You can try by yourself. > Dig says "non-existent domain": No longer, a robot probably created it. > 1. make sure your ns is auth for the zone It was not tested before the delegation (one of the name servers is lame but it prevented nothing). From bgreene at cisco.com Wed Apr 13 16:44:17 2005 From: bgreene at cisco.com (Barry Raveendran Greene) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Need the link to the allocations page In-Reply-To: <20050413093615.GA23310@nic.fr> Message-ID: <06ff01c54037$49d8c890$4513180a@amer.cisco.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 To the AFRINIC Administrators The Bogon Team needs a link to you allocation page (http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/index.html or http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html). Now that you have 41/8, SPs need to change their filters to allow forwarding. Part of that process is to check the allocation status. I looked around the web site and found nothing. So for now, we're using the allocation policy document with a strict mode range of /8 - -> /22 (http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v4200407-000.htm#8). For reference, check out your peers: ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/delegated-lacnic-latest http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/smallest-alloc-sizes.html http://www.arin.net/registration/ipv4/micro_alloc.html http://www.apnic.net/db/min-alloc.html For everyone else, please be aware that allocation does not equal global forwarding. It will take a while to get the prefix filters around the world updated. When you do get a 41/8 allocation and run into a funky forwarding issue, the first thing you check are the prefix filters. Thanks, Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQl0ufr/UEA/xivvmEQK6YQCeINBskgMpUHH4w1ddE2SK+q6gf+kAn1Zh hKd8vIodbpe0E7/5lAaW7gu6 =LCe8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From adiel at afrinic.net Wed Apr 13 19:17:24 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Need the link to the allocations page In-Reply-To: <06ff01c54037$49d8c890$4513180a@amer.cisco.com> References: <20050413093615.GA23310@nic.fr> <06ff01c54037$49d8c890$4513180a@amer.cisco.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050413191655.05883ec0@mail.afrinic.net> This will on-line shortly. - a. >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > > >To the AFRINIC Administrators > >The Bogon Team needs a link to you allocation page >(http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/index.html or >http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html). Now that you have 41/8, SPs >need to change their filters to allow forwarding. Part of that >process is to check the allocation status. > >I looked around the web site and found nothing. So for now, we're >using the allocation policy document with a strict mode range of /8 >- -> /22 >(http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v4200407-000.htm#8). > >For reference, check out your peers: > >ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/delegated-lacnic-latest >http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/smallest-alloc-sizes.html >http://www.arin.net/registration/ipv4/micro_alloc.html >http://www.apnic.net/db/min-alloc.html > >For everyone else, please be aware that allocation does not equal >global forwarding. It will take a while to get the prefix filters >around the world updated. When you do get a 41/8 allocation and run >into a funky forwarding issue, the first thing you check are the >prefix filters. > > > >Thanks, > >Barry > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP 8.0.3 > >iQA/AwUBQl0ufr/UEA/xivvmEQK6YQCeINBskgMpUHH4w1ddE2SK+q6gf+kAn1Zh >hKd8vIodbpe0E7/5lAaW7gu6 >=LCe8 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From adiel at afrinic.net Wed Apr 13 19:17:24 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Need the link to the allocations page In-Reply-To: <06ff01c54037$49d8c890$4513180a@amer.cisco.com> References: <20050413093615.GA23310@nic.fr> <06ff01c54037$49d8c890$4513180a@amer.cisco.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050413191655.05883ec0@mail.afrinic.net> This will on-line shortly. - a. >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > > >To the AFRINIC Administrators > >The Bogon Team needs a link to you allocation page >(http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/index.html or >http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html). Now that you have 41/8, SPs >need to change their filters to allow forwarding. Part of that >process is to check the allocation status. > >I looked around the web site and found nothing. So for now, we're >using the allocation policy document with a strict mode range of /8 >- -> /22 >(http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v4200407-000.htm#8). > >For reference, check out your peers: > >ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/delegated-lacnic-latest >http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/smallest-alloc-sizes.html >http://www.arin.net/registration/ipv4/micro_alloc.html >http://www.apnic.net/db/min-alloc.html > >For everyone else, please be aware that allocation does not equal >global forwarding. It will take a while to get the prefix filters >around the world updated. When you do get a 41/8 allocation and run >into a funky forwarding issue, the first thing you check are the >prefix filters. > > > >Thanks, > >Barry > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP 8.0.3 > >iQA/AwUBQl0ufr/UEA/xivvmEQK6YQCeINBskgMpUHH4w1ddE2SK+q6gf+kAn1Zh >hKd8vIodbpe0E7/5lAaW7gu6 >=LCe8 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From adiel at afrinic.net Sat Apr 16 16:32:12 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. AKPLOGAN) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Need the link to the allocations page In-Reply-To: <06ff01c54037$49d8c890$4513180a@amer.cisco.com> References: <20050413093615.GA23310@nic.fr> <06ff01c54037$49d8c890$4513180a@amer.cisco.com> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050416162859.0319cec0@mail.afrinic.net> Hello Barry, In the mean time you can use: ftp://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic/delegated-afrinic-latest too We are going put online soon a page similar to what APNIC, ARIN and RIPE NCC have. - a. >The Bogon Team needs a link to you allocation page >(http://www.cymru.com/Bogons/index.html or >http://www.cymru.com/BGP/bogon-rs.html). Now that you have 41/8, SPs >need to change their filters to allow forwarding. Part of that >process is to check the allocation status. > >I looked around the web site and found nothing. So for now, we're >using the allocation policy document with a strict mode range of /8 >- -> /22 >(http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v4200407-000.htm#8). > >For reference, check out your peers: > >ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/delegated-lacnic-latest >http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/smallest-alloc-sizes.html >http://www.arin.net/registration/ipv4/micro_alloc.html >http://www.apnic.net/db/min-alloc.html > >For everyone else, please be aware that allocation does not equal >global forwarding. It will take a while to get the prefix filters >around the world updated. When you do get a 41/8 allocation and run >into a funky forwarding issue, the first thing you check are the >prefix filters. > > > >Thanks, > >Barry > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP 8.0.3 > >iQA/AwUBQl0ufr/UEA/xivvmEQK6YQCeINBskgMpUHH4w1ddE2SK+q6gf+kAn1Zh >hKd8vIodbpe0E7/5lAaW7gu6 >=LCe8 >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >_______________________________________________ >afrinic-discuss mailing list >afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From cto at nbi.ispkenya.com Mon Apr 18 09:16:48 2005 From: cto at nbi.ispkenya.com (Brian Longwe) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Internet Governance Debate Message-ID: Hi all, Please note that a number of new WGIG papers have been posted. Please see http://www.wgig.org and follow the links, plus an explanation, or go directly to http://www.wgig.org/meeting-april.html These documents outline the positions and various recommendations coming from the WGIG and give an idea of what their feedback to the UN Secretary General and final input to WSIS in Tunis will be. A scary point to note regarding IP address administration are comments such as: " Although it can be said that the current management system and distribution of responsibilities for number allocation has worked so far, the rapid increase of demand and utilization of the internet requires a review of the current numbering management approach to ensure equitable distribution of resources and access for all. " Please take some time to go through the site, read the various papers and make comments via the online forms - we need to protect the internet and keep it from being over-politicised and at worst "governmentalised" Brian -- Brian Longwe Chief Technology Officer ISP Kenya Ltd. P.O. Box 43042, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 2 444 5959; Fax: +254 2 4446772 E-mail: cto@nbi.ispkenya.com Website: www.ispkenya.com This e-mail message (including any attachments) is intended for the addressee only, and may contain confidential information. The unauthorised use, disclosure or copying of this e-mail or any information contained within it is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the author and delete this e-mail immediately in its entirety. This e-mail message has been swept by a virus checker for the presence of known computer viruses. This statement does not constitute an acceptance of liability on the part of ISP Kenya or its employees in the event of technical or virus issues generated by this e-mail. It is the responsibility of the recipient to take adequate security measures. From kashoba at afrinet.cd Mon Apr 18 08:40:45 2005 From: kashoba at afrinet.cd (Aubin Kashoba Kalasa) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Internet Governance Debate References: Message-ID: <00d401c543e1$8d5b4a40$416310ac@nic2> Thanks Brian. Regards. Aubin K.K ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Longwe To: Discuss@afrispa.org ; AfriNIC Discuss ; DigAfrica@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:16 AM Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Internet Governance Debate Hi all, Please note that a number of new WGIG papers have been posted. Please see http://www.wgig.org and follow the links, plus an explanation, or go directly to http://www.wgig.org/meeting-april.html These documents outline the positions and various recommendations coming from the WGIG and give an idea of what their feedback to the UN Secretary General and final input to WSIS in Tunis will be. A scary point to note regarding IP address administration are comments such as: " Although it can be said that the current management system and distribution of responsibilities for number allocation has worked so far, the rapid increase of demand and utilization of the internet requires a review of the current numbering management approach to ensure equitable distribution of resources and access for all. " Please take some time to go through the site, read the various papers and make comments via the online forms - we need to protect the internet and keep it from being over-politicised and at worst "governmentalised" Brian -- Brian Longwe Chief Technology Officer ISP Kenya Ltd. P.O. Box 43042, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 2 444 5959; Fax: +254 2 4446772 E-mail: cto@nbi.ispkenya.com Website: www.ispkenya.com This e-mail message (including any attachments) is intended for the addressee only, and may contain confidential information. The unauthorised use, disclosure or copying of this e-mail or any information contained within it is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the author and delete this e-mail immediately in its entirety. This e-mail message has been swept by a virus checker for the presence of known computer viruses. This statement does not constitute an acceptance of liability on the part of ISP Kenya or its employees in the event of technical or virus issues generated by this e-mail. It is the responsibility of the recipient to take adequate security measures. _______________________________________________ afrinic-discuss mailing list afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050418/f8b92fcf/attachment.htm From adiel at afrinic.net Tue Apr 26 11:22:24 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Voice streaming Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050426094613.02e0dec0@mail.afrinic.net> Hello everybody, You can follow AfriNIC meeting at: http://videolab.uoregon.edu/events/afrinic/ Due to the size of bandwidth we have here only voice streaming available... Thanks for the University of Oregon for setting that up for us! - a. From Richard at Bell.Co.Ke Mon May 2 10:58:01 2005 From: Richard at Bell.Co.Ke (Richard Bell) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Congratulations Afrinic Message-ID: <42437C9300787A0C@n068.sc1.cp.net> (added by postmaster@bouncemessage.net) AfriNIC, Congratulations on becoming an RIR. Great job done by everyone at AfriNIC, great challenges ahead for the future. Good luck. Richard (Bell) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050502/47ebbfc9/attachment.htm From adiel at afrinic.net Mon May 2 12:59:02 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Echo from AfriNIC-2 Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050502125417.03548d78@mail.afrinic.net> Dear colleagues, As you know AfriNIC had its second public policy meeting and Annual General Meeting last week in Maputo. The meeting has been a very successful one. While the full report is on the way, let me give you here the key outcomes. During the meeting AfriNIC has signed two important documents: One allowing AfriNIC to formally join the NRO as full member and the second one with the three former registries serving our region on the effective transfer of authority to AfriNIC. On the Afternoon of the first day, the community has elected AfriNIC region representatives to the NRO NC. Two have been elected: - Jean Robert Hountomey for three years term (04/2005-12/2008) - Sylvia Geha Kezengwa for two years term (04/2005-12/2007) According to the new NRO MoU, the third representative must be appointed by AfriNIC Board and Alan Barrett has been appointed for one year term (04/2005-12/2006) The next day has been mostly dedicated to the policies discussions and the AGM. The latest policies proposed on the policy-wg mailing list have been discussed among the participants. As stated in our PDP, the discussion must continue on line (to reach the 30 days). These policies will be discussed again during the next public policies meeting. During the AGM, three majors points were on the Agenda: 1) Renewal of board seats 5 and 6: * Didier Kasole and Gaetan Bouraga have been elected respectively as Primary and alternate for Central Africa (seat 5) * Viv Padayatchy and Kenny Yiptong have been elected respectively as Primary and alternate for Indian Ocean Region (seat 6) 2) 2006/2007 budget has been adopted 3) A new fee schedule has been approved by members. Key changes in this new fee schedule are: a) Membership-only fee droped from 400 USD to 100 USD b) Increase for Medium, Large and Extra Large membership fee as follow: Medium becomes 6,500 USD Large becomes 13,000 USD Extra Large becomes 20,000 USD All the presentations will also be online soon. We would like to thank all of you who were there and hope to continue having your feedback. Kind regards. Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net From kashoba at afrinet.cd Tue May 3 09:01:29 2005 From: kashoba at afrinet.cd (Aubin Kashoba Kalasa) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Echo from AfriNIC-2 References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050502125417.03548d78@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <004401c54fad$f615fda0$245010ac@nic2> Thanks for the Afrinic ( Policy Meeting and Annual General Meeting ) Feedback. Congratulation to Didier Kasole, as primary member of board for Central Africa. Regards. Aubin Kashoba president@ispa-drc.cd ----- Original Message ----- From: Adiel A. Akplogan To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 12:59 PM Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Echo from AfriNIC-2 Dear colleagues, As you know AfriNIC had its second public policy meeting and Annual General Meeting last week in Maputo. The meeting has been a very successful one. While the full report is on the way, let me give you here the key outcomes. During the meeting AfriNIC has signed two important documents: One allowing AfriNIC to formally join the NRO as full member and the second one with the three former registries serving our region on the effective transfer of authority to AfriNIC. On the Afternoon of the first day, the community has elected AfriNIC region representatives to the NRO NC. Two have been elected: - Jean Robert Hountomey for three years term (04/2005-12/2008) - Sylvia Geha Kezengwa for two years term (04/2005-12/2007) According to the new NRO MoU, the third representative must be appointed by AfriNIC Board and Alan Barrett has been appointed for one year term (04/2005-12/2006) The next day has been mostly dedicated to the policies discussions and the AGM. The latest policies proposed on the policy-wg mailing list have been discussed among the participants. As stated in our PDP, the discussion must continue on line (to reach the 30 days). These policies will be discussed again during the next public policies meeting. During the AGM, three majors points were on the Agenda: 1) Renewal of board seats 5 and 6: * Didier Kasole and Gaetan Bouraga have been elected respectively as Primary and alternate for Central Africa (seat 5) * Viv Padayatchy and Kenny Yiptong have been elected respectively as Primary and alternate for Indian Ocean Region (seat 6) 2) 2006/2007 budget has been adopted 3) A new fee schedule has been approved by members. Key changes in this new fee schedule are: a) Membership-only fee droped from 400 USD to 100 USD b) Increase for Medium, Large and Extra Large membership fee as follow: Medium becomes 6,500 USD Large becomes 13,000 USD Extra Large becomes 20,000 USD All the presentations will also be online soon. We would like to thank all of you who were there and hope to continue having your feedback. Kind regards. Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net _______________________________________________ afrinic-discuss mailing list afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050503/c5788cc4/attachment.htm From dogwallah at gmail.com Sun May 8 16:52:01 2005 From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [Africa-CS-WSIS]RE: [afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: <20050508092319.89151.qmail@web26805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20050508092319.89151.qmail@web26805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Dear all: Apologies for replying to cross post Dear Olivier Can you post the url for this questionnaire? I am a frequent visitor to the WGIG website, and this is the first I have seen of it! Perhaps it is WSIS and not WGIG? If so, I am curious as to why they have not left this to WGIG? It also seems to be poorly designed, for example, if I answr "No" to question 1 all the rest of the questions in Process/Function 1 are nonsensical. The first question in Process/Function 2 also presupposes a yes in Process/Function 1 , question 1. Several of the other Processes/Functions repeat this pattern. On 5/8/05, Olivier Nana Nz?pa wrote: > > The questionnaire refers to four different processes or functions. They are > not to be intended as a model for a future Internet governance structure, > but they are rather to be seen as a very preliminary way to structure the > discussion. It seems the discussion is already quite "structured" towards a new body already ;-( -- Cheers, McTim nic-hdl: TMCG > > The first process/function refers to the possibility of setting up an > additional body with a very light structure to address all public policy > issues related to the Internet that would assemble the wider Internet > community as well as all organizations and institutions dealing with > Internet issues. > > > > The second process/function refers to governmental oversight over the > administration of the logical infrastructure of the Internet, including > administration of the domain name system and IP addresses and administration > of the Root server system. > > > > The third process/function refers to the coordination among and between all > organizations and institutions dealing with Internet issues. > > > > The fourth process/function refers to policy coordination at national level > with regard to Internet governance. > > > > > > Process/Function 1 : "Forum function" > > > > 1. Is there need for an additional body? > > > > 2. What functions should it exercise? > > (a) Create a space for a multi-stakeholder discussion > forum ("without teeth")? > > (b) Give policy direction? > > (c) Any other function? > > (d) Be a combination of the above? > > > > 3. What kind of public policy issues should it address? > > (a) All issues related to the Internet? > > (b) Only issues outside the scope of existing organizations and > institutions? > > > > 4. Where should it be anchored? > > > > 5. How should it be financed? > > > > 6. How should it be structured? > > > > 7. What would be its relationship with existing organizations and > institutions? > > > > > > > > Process/Function 2 : "Oversight function" > > > > > > 1. When talking about oversight, what functions do you envisage > (simple audit function, arbitration, policy direction or any other > function)? > > > > 2. Should there be governmental oversight over the administration of > the DNS and root server system? > > > > 3. Is there a need for governmental oversight over ICANN after > termination of the MoU with the USG in 2006? > > > > 4. Oversight over what areas of activity? > > (a) Over (all of) those areas hitherto under the oversight of the > USG? > > (b) Over all areas of activity? > > > > 5. Should the GAC be transformed and take on some oversight > functions? > > > > 6. Should the GAC be replaced by another body? > > > > 7. Should a governmental oversight body keep an advisory role over > some of ICANN's activities? > > > > 8. Should any post 2006 governmental oversight be exercised within > the UN framework? > > > > > > Process/Function 3: Functioning / coordination of existing institutions > > > > 1. What improvements in their functioning should existing > institutions make to bring them more in line with the WSIS principles? > > > > 2. How can their activities be better coordinated? > > > > 3. Are there existing models of inter-agency cooperation that could > be followed? > > > > 4. Should any existing institution be given the role of lead agency? > > > > > > Process Function 4: Functioning / coordination at the national level > > > > 1. How should Governments bring their national decision-making > process in line with international Internet governance arrangements? > > > > 2. What successful multi-stakeholder models could be recommended as > an approach to be followed? > From quaynor at ghana.com Mon May 9 16:31:57 2005 From: quaynor at ghana.com (Nii N. Quaynor) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:18 2006 Subject: [Africa-CS-WSIS]RE: [afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR! In-Reply-To: <20050508092319.89151.qmail@web26805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: 6667 <20050508092319.89151.qmail@web26805.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20050509142337.M47564@ghana.com> How do these questions help network growth in Africa? nii On Sun, 8 May 2005 11:23:19 +0200 (CEST), Olivier Nana Nz?pa wrote > Chers tous, > Quelle doit etre notre position sur ces questions preparees par le Secretariat que Groupe? > Olivier > > ? > Internet Governance Arrangements: Questionnaire > ? > The WGIG at its third meetings discussed current Internet governance arrangements and examined ways on how to improve them in order to bring them more in line with the WSIS principles. These discussions are at an early stage. They focused on various governance functions. In the light of these discussions, a questionnaire was developed to allow for a structured feed-back. >? ? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050509/32232f49/attachment.htm From ernest at afrinic.net Mon May 9 17:15:05 2005 From: ernest at afrinic.net (Ernest Byaruhanga) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-II Meeting Report Message-ID: <427F7E79.5070503@afrinic.net> Dear Colleagues, Find below a detailed report of the recently councluded AfriNIC-2 meeting. Kind Regards, Ernest, AfriNIC __________ AfriNIC-II Meeting Report ========================= AfriNIC held its second public policy and member meeting from 26-27th April 2005 at Telecomunicacoes de Mocambique (TDM) Conference and Training Centre, Maputo - Mozambique. More than 100 participants from around the world attended the meeting. They included AfriNIC members and Board of Directors, representatives from ICANN, LACNIC, APNIC, RIPE NCC, ARIN, ISOC, AfNOG, officials from governments and African Network Operators at large. This meeting followed the official recognition of AfriNIC (by the ICANN) as the fifth Regional Internet Registry serving Africa and the Indian Ocean regions two weeks before - a momentous event that would change the future of the internet on the African continent. The meeting started on 26/4/2005 Tuesday morning at 09:30 with a speech from the Minister of Telecommunications in Mozambique, preceded by a word of welcome delivered by the chairman of the AfriNIC Board of Directors, Mr. Pierre Dandjinou. All presentations can be found on the AfriNIC-2 meeting agenda web-page: http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-2/agenda.htm Highlights: ---------- Major highlights of the AfriNIC-2 meeting included: o AfriNIC signing an MoU to become a full member of the NRO, o Official transfer of documents from RIPE NCC, ARIN and APNIC to AfriNIC, o Update/Report from AfriNIC, o Updates from the NRO and the other RIRs, o Election of representatives to the NRO NC (Number Resource Organisation Number Council (who also become ASO AC members), o Discussion on some proposed policies from the Policy Working Group, o Election to fill vacant seats at the AfriNIC Board of Directors, o Adoption of 2005 fee schedule. o Adoption of 2005 Budget DAY-1: 26/04/2005 ================= The AfriNIC Board Chair, Mr. Pierre Dandjinou, welcomed everybody to the second AfriNIC public policy meeting, and invited the Mozambique Minister of Telecommunications, HE Prof. Dr. Venancio Massingue to inaugurate the official opening of the meeting. The minister was grateful to his fellow internet pioneers in Africa (like Dr. Nii Quaynor and Alan Barett), the Chairman of the AfriNIC Board, Mr. Pierre Dandjinou, the AfriNIC CEO, Mr. Adiel Akplogan and other people for having worked hard to make AfriNIC a reality for Africa. AfriNIC becomes a member of the NRO: ------------------------------------ At this meeting, AfriNIC became an official member of the NRO by signing a joinder to the NRO Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). AfriNIC became a welcomed and celebrated addition to the NRO, which now includes all five RIRs (ARIN, RIPE NCC, LACNIC, APNIC and the new AfriNIC). The AfriNIC CEO, Mr. Adiel Akplogan, presented gifts to various members of the other Regional Internet Registries who dedicated time and resources during the transition time to make AfriNIC a success. A beautiful painting was also received from LACNIC to AfriNIC. A special gift was presented to Richard Jimmerson from ARIN, for his valuable efforts of inter-RIR co-ordination during AfriNIC's set up and transition. Various items for the day: -------------------------- Presentations items for the rest of the day included updates from ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC and LACNIC (given by the respective CEOs all present in Maputo), the ASO and NRO reports (given by one of the AfriNIC Region ASO Observers, Mr. Alain P. Aina), talks about implementation of IPv6 and reverse delegation, a tutorial about how to request IP resources in the AfriNIC region and a presentation from the AfriNIC Board Chairman about the relationship between AfriNIC and the international internet community. A particularly interesting presentation was from Jordi Palet Martinez from the European Ipv6 Task Force, also co-Chair of the "IPv6 Forum, Education and Promotion Working Group". The presentation was: "IPv6 is an innovation opportunity". He gave a live demonstration of Ipv6 at work - remote-controlling various devices at his home from Africa, and signaling/monitoring his dogs at home :-) Jordi's presentation can be found at: http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-2/presentations/26.04.05/ipv6_is_an_innovation_opportunity_v8.pdf Elections of representatives to the NRO - Number Council (NC) -------------------------------------------------------------- Under the terms of the MoU signed between the ICANN and the RIRs in October 2004, the NRO Number Council now performs the role of the Address Supporting Organization - Address Council (ASO AC). Members of the NRO NC then also become the ASO AC members. According to the NRO MoU, the NC must be composed of two members selected by the regional policy forum of each of the RIRs and one must be appointed by the board of each RIR. Since AfriNIC is now a fully accredited Regional Internet Registry, three representatives had to be elected at the AfriNIC-2 meeting according to the election process online at: http://www.afrinic.net/nro/afnro-elp200502.htm These representatives will represent the AfriNIC region internet community at the NRO Number Council (NC). Various nominations were received and are available online at: http://www.afrinic.net/nro/nominees.htm An election was held in the afternoon of 26/04/2005. Eligible voters were people residing and working in the AfriNIC service region. The vote count gave: Sylvia Geha Kezengwa: 27 votes Yaovi Atohoun: 16 votes Jean Robert Hountomey: 33 votes Ali Drissa Badiel: 23 votes Wycliffe Ochieng: 5 votes Out of the 5 nominees, the following were declared elected: - Jean Robert Hountomey 04/2005-12/2008 - Sylvia Geha Kezengwa 04/2005-12/2007 Alan Barrett was appointed by the AfriNIC board to serve for a 1 year mandate (04/2005-12/2006) The day was wound-up with a glamorous social event at Hotel Cardosos in the centre of Maputo. . DAY-2: 27/04/2005 ================= The second day was dedicated to policy discussions and the member Annual General Meeting (AGM). A formal document transfer from ARIN, RIPE NCC and APNIC to AfriNIC was also conducted. Key issues of the day: - Official transfer of member documents/data from other RIRs to AfriNIC. - discussion of various policy documents that were proposed on the policy working group, - presentation and adoption of the 2005 budget, - presentation and adoption of amendments to the fee schedule, - renewal of the vacant seats in the AfriNIC board, - presentation of current stats from AfriNIC RS department, - how AfriNIC/AfNOG should co-operate, and - the possibility of setting up an IPv6 task force in our community. Other various presentations were made, including the Policy Development Process in the AfriNIC service region and the NRO perspective about the IPv6 global allocation policy. Official transfer of authority from ARIN/RIPE NCC/APNIC to AfriNIC ------------------------------------------------------------------ On the morning of 27/4/2005 at AfriNIC-2, the RIRs - APNIC, ARIN, and the RIPE NCC signed letters transferring to AfriNIC formal authority for the parts of the region they had previously served, including all registration and accounting documentation and DNS administration. This now completed the transfer of all custodial and registry processes for the entire AfriNIC service region. Policy Proposals: ---------------- Some new policies and a few amendments to current policy were proposed 2 weeks before the AfriNIC-2 meeting. According to the current AfriNIC policy development process, at least 30 days of discussion are needed on the policy working group mailing list prior to face-to-face discussion and consequent consensus at the public policy meeting. These policies are: Policy for IPv4 End-Users: Minimum Assignment: /24 Criteria: - show existing utilisation of /25 from upstream - Or, justify immediate need of 50% of total requested. Additional space: - 25% immediate utilisation,and - 50% utilisation in 1 year. IXPs, Root Server or ccTLD Operators: - Assignment no greater than /24. - At least 2 peer ISPs in an IXP Temporary IP assignemnts in the AfriNIC region - The activity requiring temporary IP resources should be publicly documented and available, preferably on a website. - The IP resources must be returned to AfriNIC after the experiment. - Resources are assigned on a lease basis for a period of one month. - The assignment can be renewed after providing the necessary information . - The size of the assigned IP resource will be determined from the plan submitted by the requesting entity. Change in Policy for AS Number Assignments: Major change: - An entity requesting an AS number from AfriNIC must be an AfriNIC member in good standing. - LIRs cannot assign AS numbers to other organisations, other than their own network infrastructure. To contribute to the discussions about these proposals, please subscribe to the policy working group mailing list, by sending an email to policy-wg-request@afrinic.net with the subject SUBSCRIBE. Archives can also be found at http://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/policy-wg Summary of discussion about the above policy proposals: ------------------------------------------------------- o The AS number proposal did not get much discussion. o Temporary Assignments and Experiments: - Some concerns about a 1 month return period being too short. - One member mentioned that some temporary allocations tend to get 'tainted' by some carriers (due to frequent withdrawing and injecting of the prefix into the global routing table) - though others said this is never the case. - A need for these allocations to come from a single large reserved block. - Suggestion that AfriNIC asks the requestor for their routing decisions/plans, and base the approval from that. - Issues about the costs involved were also raised - whether this is prefix-size based or a general similar fee irrespective of allocation size. o IPv4 End-User Assignments: - Concerns about the /24 minimum not being a good thing given the rapid growth of the routing table. - Several people were not concerned about the routing table growth, as such prefixes are usually not numerous. - Questions about what happens to end-user PI requests between now and the next member meeting, when the policy will be discussed and approved/rejected by the members. - The AfriNIC CEO advised that AfriNIC will enforce the policy from the respective former RIR of the member, until this policy is adopted by AfriNIC. During the policy discussions, some members raised the issue about the need for a policy to recover unused resources in the AfriNIC region. This issue will be addressed by the policy working group. Co-operation between AfriNIC and AfNOG: -------------------------------------- AfNOG (The African Network Operators Group) has been conducting workshops and meetings once a year for 5 years now. It is also not unusual that most people attending the AfNOG workshops and meetings are the same people attending the AfriNIC meetings - since they usually represent network operators, who are usually AfriNIC members. Discussions were held to find a suitable way of having AfNOG and AfriNIC work together at these meetings. Experiences from the NANOG/ARIN and APRICOT/APNIC relationship were shared with the meeting. No major decisions were taken at the meeting, but it was advised that an MoU be signed between AfriNIC and AfNOG to partake joint organisation of the meetings, infrastructure, connectivity setup and other logistical requirements. Possibility of setting up an IPv6 task force in our community ------------------------------------------------------------- A brief discussion was held about the possibility of setting up an IPv6 Task Force in the African community. Many ideas were shared during this time. The major point of discussion was that a task-force may have some legal and procedural/formal implications that may not work well for the African community at this time. It was later decided that mailing lists be setup instead, and whoever is interested can join the forum. These mailing lists will be hosted at AfriNIC. The naming has not yet been decided - more about this will follow on the AfriNIC-discuss mailing list. Budget for 2006/2007: --------------------- AfriNIC's budget for the year 2006/2007 was presented to and consequently adopted by the members during the AGM. The voted budget has 491,000 USD as income, 360,908 as OPEX and 66400 of CAPEX. Fees Schedule: -------------- Some amendments were made by the AfriNIC Board of Directors to the fees schedule as follows: o Decrease the membership-only (associate member (without any allocated resources) fee from 400 USD to 100 USD o Increase in fees for Medium, Large and Extra Large membership categories as follows: Medium becomes 6,500 USD from 5,000 USD Large becomes 13,000 USD from 7,000 USD Extra Large becomes 20,000 USD from 15,000 USD The AGM unanimously approved these figures. Board Election - Renewal of Seats 5 and 6: ------------------------------------------ Seats 5 and 6 (for the Central Africa and Indian Ocean Region respectively) had fallen vacant. For each seat, a primary and alternate member is selected according to the AfriNIC by-laws. The members were therefore required to elect persons to fill these seats. An election was conducted which ended as follows: Central (Seat 5): Didier Kasole CD Primary Gaetan Bouraga GA Alternate Indian Ocean (Seat 6): Viv Padayatchy MU Primary Kenny Yiptong MU Alternate Congratulations, especially to Gaetan Bouraga, who was the only new person on board ! LIR TRAINING ============ AfriNIC conducted training sessions for members/LIRs and other interested parties. The major objective was to train ISP staff on how to interact with the AfriNIC whois database, and how to request internet resources from AfriNIC. Two sessions - English and French, were held at TDM, on Saturday 23rd April 2005 for the whole day. Each session had about 25 people. The next training event will be held in South Africa, and the venue and date will be confirmed later. Details are available on the AfriNIC training website: http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm AFRINIC-III =========== The third AfriNIC public policy meeting will be held in Cairo, Egypt from 22nd-24th November 2005. Registration details and agenda will be online soon. END OF MEETING. =============== The meeting was closed at 14:30 by the AfriNIC Board Chair and the CEO. THANKS AND GRATITUDE: ===================== AfriNIC would like to express its full gratitude to: o HE Prof. Dr. Venancio Massingue o MICTI o TV CABO Mozambique o AfNOG secretariat o ISOC o Afilias For their contribution and support to make this meeting a success. See you all at AfriNIC-III in Cairo!! From quincy at translink.co.ug Tue May 17 14:06:48 2005 From: quincy at translink.co.ug (Quincy Prakash) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] afrinic discouraging ipv6 ?? Message-ID: Hello, I am looking at: http://www.afrinic.net/docs/billing/afadm-fee200405.htm for who wants > /32 of IPv6, trhe fees are 18,000$ per year! Is Afrinic discouraging the isps in africa to get less than /32? why? thanks. From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Tue May 17 14:11:56 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: afrinic discouraging ipv6 ?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20050517121156.GA22496@nic.fr> On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:06:48PM +0300, Quincy Prakash wrote a message of 14 lines which said: > for who wants > /32 of IPv6, ^ Yes, strictly superior to /32. > trhe fees are 18,000$ per year! Is Afrinic discouraging the isps in > africa to get less than /32? why? Be realistic. Give me one operator in Africa for which a /32 is not currently more than enough. I'm more concerned about the 2,500 US $ (a huge amount) for the /32. It will certainly discourage people to start deploying IPv6, since there is currently no real market demand. From greg at csurf.co.za Tue May 17 14:31:13 2005 From: greg at csurf.co.za (Gregory Massel) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] afrinic discouraging ipv6 ?? References: Message-ID: <013f01c55adc$5245fab0$6401a8c0@groglet> > for who wants > /32 of IPv6, trhe fees are 18,000$ per year! Is Afrinic > discouraging the isps in africa to get less than /32? why? I would be pleasantly surprised if any ISP in the AfriNIC region has requirement for > /32! In fact, I only forsee a potential issue if an LIR is sub-allocating, but even then it is quite likely that downstream ISPs will prefer to get their own /48 rather than use a sub-allocation of /40 or similar. The fee does seem quite high though in relation to other RIR's. I also find that the fee for a /32 is extremely high given that one cannot easily recover the cost of IPv6 as yet. I see that the initial and first years fees are waived, however, would suggest that some sort of long-term discount be effected until IPv6 is used more extensively for commercial purposes and ISPs are generating revenue off IPv6 services to recover the cost of addresses. --Greg From ernest at afrinic.net Tue May 17 15:34:35 2005 From: ernest at afrinic.net (Ernest Byaruhanga) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] IPv6 discussion list Message-ID: <4289F2EB.90703@afrinic.net> Dear colleagues, During the AfriNIC-2 meeting in Maputo, there was a proposal to setup an IPv6 task force in Africa. It was decided that a mailing/discussion list be setup and hosted by AfriNIC, to further discuss the idea and launch more deeper discussions about IPv6 issues in our region. This list has been created: afripv6-discuss@afrinic.net Anyone can subscribe to this list. To subscribe, send an email to afripv6-discuss-request@afrinic.net with SUBSCRIBE in the subject, or subscribe online at: http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afripv6-discuss kind regards, Ernest Byaruhanga, AfriNIC. From quincy at translink.co.ug Tue May 17 15:56:05 2005 From: quincy at translink.co.ug (Quincy Prakash) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] afrinic discouraging ipv6 ?? In-Reply-To: <013f01c55adc$5245fab0$6401a8c0@groglet> Message-ID: On Tue, 17 May 2005, Gregory Massel wrote: > > for who wants > /32 of IPv6, trhe fees are 18,000$ per year! Is Afrinic > > discouraging the isps in africa to get less than /32? why? > > I would be pleasantly surprised if any ISP in the AfriNIC region has > requirement for > /32! > > In fact, I only forsee a potential issue if an LIR is sub-allocating, but > even then it is quite likely that downstream ISPs will prefer to get their > own /48 rather than use a sub-allocation of /40 or similar. > > The fee does seem quite high though in relation to other RIR's. > > I also find that the fee for a /32 is extremely high given that one cannot > easily recover the cost of IPv6 as yet. I see that the initial and first > years fees are waived, however, would suggest that some sort of long-term > discount be effected until IPv6 is used more extensively for commercial > purposes and ISPs are generating revenue off IPv6 services to recover the > cost of addresses. it seems afrinic then will not effectively manage our ip space if members do not want to support it in termms of administrative fees for allocated IPv6 addresses! thanks. > > --Greg > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > From quincy at translink.co.ug Tue May 17 15:52:31 2005 From: quincy at translink.co.ug (Quincy Prakash) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: afrinic discouraging ipv6 ?? In-Reply-To: <20050517121156.GA22496@nic.fr> Message-ID: On Tue, 17 May 2005, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 03:06:48PM +0300, > Quincy Prakash wrote > a message of 14 lines which said: > > > for who wants > /32 of IPv6, > ^ > Yes, strictly superior to /32. > > > trhe fees are 18,000$ per year! Is Afrinic discouraging the isps in > > africa to get less than /32? why? > > Be realistic. Give me one operator in Africa for which a /32 is not > currently more than enough. in reality, yes the /32 has enough IP addresses even for a continent, but the fee for requiring more looks unrealistic. i would like to know why it costs 6 times more! > I'm more concerned about the 2,500 US $ (a huge amount) for the > /32. It will certainly discourage people to start deploying IPv6, > since there is currently no real market demand. for me this is fine because i think an ISP already having IPv4 addresses doesn not have tpo pay any extra to get IPv6 addresses. (unless i am not undrstanding it well) thanks. > > > From adiel at afrinic.net Wed May 18 02:21:37 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] afrinic discouraging ipv6 ?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050518021951.05e514d0@mail.afrinic.net> At 15:06 17/05/2005 +0300, Quincy Prakash wrote: >Hello, > >I am looking at: >http://www.afrinic.net/docs/billing/afadm-fee200405.htm > >for who wants > /32 of IPv6, trhe fees are 18,000$ per year! Is Afrinic >discouraging the isps in africa to get less than /32? why? Just a to clarify, this fee is only for Native Pv6 LIR only. For LIR with already IPv4 allocation, Ipv6 allocation is free of charge. - a. From adiel at afrinic.net Wed May 18 02:21:37 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] afrinic discouraging ipv6 ?? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050518021951.05e514d0@mail.afrinic.net> At 15:06 17/05/2005 +0300, Quincy Prakash wrote: >Hello, > >I am looking at: >http://www.afrinic.net/docs/billing/afadm-fee200405.htm > >for who wants > /32 of IPv6, trhe fees are 18,000$ per year! Is Afrinic >discouraging the isps in africa to get less than /32? why? Just a to clarify, this fee is only for Native Pv6 LIR only. For LIR with already IPv4 allocation, Ipv6 allocation is free of charge. - a. From pierre.motumbe at vodacom.cd Wed May 18 10:15:14 2005 From: pierre.motumbe at vodacom.cd (Pierre Motumbe Kasengedia) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] IPv6 discussion list Message-ID: <90142A451F6F7D4EA75379F5194DF5290204D8DE@cdkin02100.vodacom.cd> Dear All, It's very important for us to participate in the IPV6 mailing/discussion list, so we can bring our contribution to this important issue for the Internet address policy. Best regards Pierre Motumbe KASENGEDIA Network Quality Specialist Planning & Optimization / Engineering Vodacom Congo (RDC) s.p.r.l Mob: 00243-814443106 pmotumbe@Vodacom.cd motumbe@hotmail.com -----Original Message----- From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Ernest Byaruhanga Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:35 PM To: AfriNIC Discuss Subject: [afrinic-discuss] IPv6 discussion list Dear colleagues, During the AfriNIC-2 meeting in Maputo, there was a proposal to setup an IPv6 task force in Africa. It was decided that a mailing/discussion list be setup and hosted by AfriNIC, to further discuss the idea and launch more deeper discussions about IPv6 issues in our region. This list has been created: afripv6-discuss@afrinic.net Anyone can subscribe to this list. To subscribe, send an email to afripv6-discuss-request@afrinic.net with SUBSCRIBE in the subject, or subscribe online at: http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afripv6-discuss kind regards, Ernest Byaruhanga, AfriNIC. _______________________________________________ afrinic-discuss mailing list afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From mje at posix.co.za Wed May 18 15:11:28 2005 From: mje at posix.co.za (Mark Elkins) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] afrinic discouraging ipv6 ?? In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050518021951.05e514d0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050518021951.05e514d0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <1116421888.15723.156.camel@mje99.posix.co.za> >>I am looking at: >>http://www.afrinic.net/docs/billing/afadm-fee200405.htm >> >>for who wants > /32 of IPv6, trhe fees are 18,000$ per year! Is >>Afrinic discouraging the isps in africa to get less than /32? why? >Just a to clarify, this fee is only for Native Pv6 LIR only. >For LIR with already IPv4 allocation, Ipv6 allocation is >free of charge. I distinctly remember asking this question (how much does IPV6 address space cost) in Maputo. The answer was something along the lines of "Currently we have no fee structure for IPV6 address space - so currently there is no cost - Yes - its free" On that basis -I was going to apply for a couple of blocks, one for Posix (my ISP) and one (much smaller block) for a customer with their own ASN and /24. Neither I nor the customer have any form of Timetable for implementing IPV6 in any form whatsoever (that I am aware of - I'm speaking under correction here), it seems that at sometime it makes sense to get a block - especially if its not going to cost anything. Posix has Address space and an ASN from before ARIN time. The customer as an ASN from before ARIN and a /24 from ARIN. All these resources now lie with AfriNIC. I am now a "Member" of AfriNIC (Paid my $100 :-). Where do I and my (multihomed) customer stand? Come people - what plans do ISP's have for implementing IPV6? a) Available to customers (permanent lines and Dialup)? b) Available for hosting solutions Should there be any form of incentive for early African Deployment? c) no payment ever / pay after five years ??? The Internet is a single network. Although at Maputo we were shown a timetable of role-outs amongst the different regions (with AfriNIC trailing last), if some very Pro IPV6 evangelist has a service only accessible vi IPV6 (or maybe a service that IPv4 simply can not do?), Africans will most lightly not have access. -- . . ___. .__ Posix Systems - Sth Africa. e.164 VOIP ready /| /| / /__ mje@posix.co.za - Mark J Elkins, Cisco CCIE / |/ |ARK \_/ /__ LKINS Tel: +27 12 807 0590 Cell: +27 82 601 0496 From pja at glocom.ac.jp Wed May 25 07:05:32 2005 From: pja at glocom.ac.jp (Adam) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] ICANN Nominating Committee selecting candidates Message-ID: <4294079C.8010603@glocom.ac.jp> Hope we will see strong candidates for all positions from Africa. If anyone has questions, please contact me at Thank you, Adam ICANN Nominating Committee 2005: Calls for Statements of Interest for ICANN leadership positions The ICANN Nominating Committee has posted a call for recommendations and statements of interest for leadership positions on its Board of Directors and Supporting Organizations. Deadline for submissions in June 15, 2005. Please read the material below and consider who might be a candidate for the positions the committee is selecting from this year. Note, self nominations are encouraged. We are to select 2 board members, 3 members of the At Large Advisory Committee (positions representing Asia Pacific, Latin American and Caribbean and African regions), 1 member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO), 2 members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO). Please see for more information about the process and an application form. I'd be happy to help explain the process and positions to anyone considering becoming a candidate Many thanks, Adam ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~oOo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deadline June 15, 2005. The ICANN Nominating Committee invites Recommendations and Statements of Interest from the community as it seeks qualified candidates for the following positions: - two members of the ICANN Board of Directors; - three members of the At Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) from: Asia Pacific, Latin American and Caribbean and African Regions; - two members of the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO); and - one member of the Council of the Country-Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Those individuals selected by the Nominating Committee will have a unique opportunity to work with accomplished colleagues from around the globe, address intriguing technical coordination problems and related policy development challenges with diverse functional, cultural, and geographic dimensions, and gain valuable insights and experience from working across these boundaries of knowledge, responsibility and perspective. Additionally, those selected will gain the satisfaction of making a valuable public service contribution. Placing the broad public interest ahead of any particular interests, they will help ensure the stability and security of the Internet for critically important societal functions. These voluntary positions are not remunerated, although direct expenses incurred in the course of duty may be reimbursed. These positions may involve significant international travel, including personal presence at periodic ICANN meetings, as well as regular telephone and Internet communications. Candidates should be women and men with a high level of qualifications and experience with an international outlook including some familiarity with the Internet. They should be prepared to contribute to the collective decision-making process among ICANN's constituencies, supporting organizations and advisory bodies. Selection criteria, eligibility factors, roles of each position, application procedure, and contacts are posted at: Applications will be handled confidentially and should be received by 12:00 GMT on 15 June 2005 for full consideration. Selections will be made in October with service beginning in December 2005. END From dogwallah at gmail.com Wed Jun 15 16:34:56 2005 From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Fwd: Announcing long AS-sets tomorrow In-Reply-To: <42AFF49E.2040309@ripe.net> References: <42AFF49E.2040309@ripe.net> Message-ID: Apologies for duplicates. This mail was sent to NANOG and routing-wg@ripe.net lists, and I thought it might be smt African operators should be aware of as well. The urls explain what the experiment is about. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lorenzo Colitti Date: Jun 15, 2005 12:27 PM Subject: Announcing long AS-sets tomorrow To: nanog@merit.edu, routing-wg@ripe.net Cc: Henk Uijterwaal , compunet@dia.uniroma3.it Hi, as part of our AS-set stuffing experiments (announced, including links to in-depth information, in [1]), we will be announcing unusually large AS-sets tomorrow, Thursday 16 June. The prefixes involved will be 84.205.73.0/24 and 84.205.89.0/24, both orignating in AS12654. The AS-sets will consist of AS12654 repeated n times, thus the paths will look like 12654 {12654, 12654, ..., 12654}. No other AS numbers will be used. The values of n we will use are 25, 50, 75 and 100. The announcements are designed to discover how far large AS-sets are propagated, and thus how effective our techniques can be, in today's Internet with today's IPv4 operational practices. This is *not* a test to see if routers will fall over: we have successfully tested longer AS-sets in the lab on both Cisco and Juniper, and longer AS-paths and AS-sets have been observed in the wild [2,3]. See [1] for more information on the safety of these announcements. The proposed schedule is as follows: 84.205.73.0/24 84.205.89.0/24 14:00 UTC: 25-element AS-set 50-element AS-set 14:30 UTC: withdrawal withdrawal 16:00 UTC: 75-element AS-set 100-element AS-set 16:30 UTC: withdrawal withdrawal If anyone should see a problem during the announcements, please contact me and I will take immediate action. Regards, Lorenzo [1] http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2005-06/msg00210.html [2] http://www.ripe.net/projects/ris/Talks/0101_RIPE38_AA/sld003.html [3] http://www.ripe.net/maillists/ncc-archives/ris-users/2002/msg00044.html -- lorenzo@ripe.net colitti@dia.uniroma3.it www.ripe.net www.dia.uniroma3.it/~compunet RIPE NCC Roma Tre Computer Networks research group -- Cheers, McTim nic-hdl: TMCG From adiel at afrinic.net Fri Jul 22 18:03:37 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC training in Dakar Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050722175844.036beec0@mail.afrinic.net> [**English version below**] Chers Coll?gues, Dans le cadre de notre programm de formation et d'information sur l?allocation et la gestion des ressources Internet, nous vous informons qu?Afrinic organisera une formation LIR (ou RIL: Registre Internet Locaux) ? Dakar du 2 au 3 Septembre prochain. Cet atelier de formation aura lieu en marge de la Reunion Minist?rielle pr?paratoire du SMSI (5-6 Septembre 2005). En dehaors de de la formation de base, nous aurons ?galement une session introductive ? IPv6 et DNSec. Vous pourriez vous inscrire des maintenat ?: http://www.afrinic.net/training/registration.htm Le programme de formation est disponible ?: http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm La participation ?tant sans frais, les LIR dej? ?tablis, les LIR ?mergeants et les op?rateurs R?seau seront prioritaires. Pour toutes informations compl?mentaires n?h?sitez pas ? nous contacter ? training@afrinic.net. Cordialement AfriNIC Training Team =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Dear Colleagues In our continuous efforts to inform and sensitize our community about management and allocation of Internet resources, we are organizing an LIR training in Dakar Senegal (in French) on the 2nd and 3rd September 2005, back to back with West African Ministerial WSIS prepa- ratory meeting (5-6 September 2005). This two days training session will be extended over the regular LIR training, to some specific matter such as Introduction to IPv6 and DNSec. For registration, please click on the link below: http://www.afrinic.net/training/registration.htm Agenda for the training can be found here: http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm The training material will be provided on site. For any further information please contact training@afrinic.net Kind regards AfriNIC training team From adiel at afrinic.net Fri Jul 22 18:03:27 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC training Plan: September-December 2005 Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050722180136.03703ec0@mail.afrinic.net> [** Version Fran?aise plus bas**] Dear Colleagues With the success of the previous training sessions organised and in its continuous efforts to raise awareness in the African community about management and allocation of Internet resources, AfriNIC is organising a series of LIR trainings. The schedule for the last quarter of 2005 is as follow: Dakar: 2-3 September Mauritius: 22 September Nairobi: 6 October (tentative) Libreville: 23 October Cape Town: 14 November Cairo: 11 December These courses and the training materials are free of charge and will be delivered by the AfriNIC training team. Trainings in Dakar and Libreville will be in French whereas the others in English. Agenda and other related details about trainings can be found from the link below: http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm Registration is open to all interested Organisation but priority will be given to representatives from Local Internet Registry and emerging Local Internet Registries (LIR). For any additional queries, please contact us at training@afrinic.net. We expect that these trainings will bring awareness and clarification about the distribution of Internet Resources in Africa and will help LIR?s to better manage their resources. Regards. --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chers Collegues, Afin de mieux informer la communaut? Intenet d?Afrique sur l?allocation et la gestion des ressources Internet, nous avons le plaisir de vous informer qu?AfriNIC organise une s?rie de formations LIR en Afrique. Le planning des forma- tions pour le dernier trimestre 2005 est le suivant: Dakar: 2-3 Septembre 2005 (Fran?ais) Maurice: 22 Septembre 2005 (Anglais) Nairobi: 6 Octobre 2005 (tentative) (Anglais) Libreville: 23 Octobre 2005 (Fran?ais) Cape Town: 14 Novembre 2005 (Anglais) Le Caire: 11 D?cembre 2005 (Anglais) Les cours ainsi que les suports de cours sont gratuits. L?inscription est ouverte aux membres et non-membres mais priorit? sera donn?e aux membres. Veuillez noter qu?AfriNIC ne prend en charge ni le logement ni les frais de voyage des participants. Le programme ainsi que d?autres renseignements relatifs sont disponible ?: http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm Pour toutes autres renseignements compl?mentaires, veuillez nous contacter ? training@afrinic.net. Nous esperons que ces formations contribueront ? une meilleur comprehension de nos procedures d'allocation et de gestion des ressources Internet en Afrique. Cordiallement Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net From pierre.motumbe at vodacom.cd Mon Jul 25 22:27:44 2005 From: pierre.motumbe at vodacom.cd (Pierre Motumbe Kasengedia) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC training Plan: September-December 2005 Message-ID: <90142A451F6F7D4EA75379F5194DF529029BFD78@cdkin02100.vodacom.cd> Thanks Adiel Regards Pierre Motumbe KASENGEDIA Network Quality Specialist Planning & Optimization / Engineering Vodacom Congo (RDC) s.p.r.l Mob: 00243-814443106 pmotumbe@Vodacom.cd motumbe@hotmail.com -----Original Message----- From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Adiel A. Akplogan Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 5:03 PM To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC training Plan: September-December 2005 [** Version Fran?aise plus bas**] Dear Colleagues With the success of the previous training sessions organised and in its continuous efforts to raise awareness in the African community about management and allocation of Internet resources, AfriNIC is organising a series of LIR trainings. The schedule for the last quarter of 2005 is as follow: Dakar: 2-3 September Mauritius: 22 September Nairobi: 6 October (tentative) Libreville: 23 October Cape Town: 14 November Cairo: 11 December These courses and the training materials are free of charge and will be delivered by the AfriNIC training team. Trainings in Dakar and Libreville will be in French whereas the others in English. Agenda and other related details about trainings can be found from the link below: http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm Registration is open to all interested Organisation but priority will be given to representatives from Local Internet Registry and emerging Local Internet Registries (LIR). For any additional queries, please contact us at training@afrinic.net. We expect that these trainings will bring awareness and clarification about the distribution of Internet Resources in Africa and will help LIR's to better manage their resources. Regards. --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chers Collegues, Afin de mieux informer la communaut? Intenet d'Afrique sur l'allocation et la gestion des ressources Internet, nous avons le plaisir de vous informer qu'AfriNIC organise une s?rie de formations LIR en Afrique. Le planning des forma- tions pour le dernier trimestre 2005 est le suivant: Dakar: 2-3 Septembre 2005 (Fran?ais) Maurice: 22 Septembre 2005 (Anglais) Nairobi: 6 Octobre 2005 (tentative) (Anglais) Libreville: 23 Octobre 2005 (Fran?ais) Cape Town: 14 Novembre 2005 (Anglais) Le Caire: 11 D?cembre 2005 (Anglais) Les cours ainsi que les suports de cours sont gratuits. L'inscription est ouverte aux membres et non-membres mais priorit? sera donn?e aux membres. Veuillez noter qu'AfriNIC ne prend en charge ni le logement ni les frais de voyage des participants. Le programme ainsi que d'autres renseignements relatifs sont disponible ?: http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm Pour toutes autres renseignements compl?mentaires, veuillez nous contacter ? training@afrinic.net. Nous esperons que ces formations contribueront ? une meilleur comprehension de nos procedures d'allocation et de gestion des ressources Internet en Afrique. Cordiallement Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net _______________________________________________ afrinic-discuss mailing list afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss From dogwallah at gmail.com Wed Jul 27 13:47:36 2005 From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC training Plan: September-December 2005 In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050722180136.03703ec0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050722180136.03703ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: hiya, Which do you need me to help teach? I have never been to Mauritius or Cape Town, and am keen to see both ;-) Greetz, McTim On 7/22/05, Adiel A. Akplogan wrote: > > [** Version Fran?aise plus bas**] > > Dakar: 2-3 September > Mauritius: 22 September > Nairobi: 6 October (tentative) > Libreville: 23 October > Cape Town: 14 November > Cairo: 11 December > > These courses and the training materials are free of charge > and will be delivered by the AfriNIC training team. Trainings > in Dakar and Libreville will be in French whereas the others > in English. > > Agenda and other related details about trainings can be > found from the link below: > > > http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm > > Registration is open to all interested Organisation but priority > will be given to representatives from Local Internet Registry and > emerging Local Internet Registries (LIR). > > For any additional queries, please contact us at > training@afrinic.net. > > We expect that these trainings will bring awareness and > clarification about the distribution of Internet Resources > in Africa and will help LIR's to better manage their > resources. > > Regards. > > --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Chers Collegues, > > Afin de mieux informer la communaut? Intenet d'Afrique sur > l'allocation et la gestion des ressources Internet, nous > avons le plaisir de vous informer qu'AfriNIC organise une > s?rie de formations LIR en Afrique. Le planning des forma- > tions pour le dernier trimestre 2005 est le suivant: > > Dakar: 2-3 Septembre 2005 (Fran?ais) > Maurice: 22 Septembre 2005 (Anglais) > Nairobi: 6 Octobre 2005 (tentative) (Anglais) > Libreville: 23 Octobre 2005 (Fran?ais) > Cape Town: 14 Novembre 2005 (Anglais) > Le Caire: 11 D?cembre 2005 (Anglais) > > Les cours ainsi que les suports de cours sont gratuits. > L'inscription est ouverte aux membres et non-membres mais > priorit? sera donn?e aux membres. Veuillez noter qu'AfriNIC > ne prend en charge ni le logement ni les frais de voyage des > participants. > > Le programme ainsi que d'autres renseignements relatifs sont > disponible ?: > > > http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm > > > Pour toutes autres renseignements compl?mentaires, veuillez > nous contacter ? training@afrinic.net. > > Nous esperons que ces formations contribueront ? une meilleur > comprehension de nos procedures d'allocation et de gestion > des ressources Internet en Afrique. > > Cordiallement > > > Adiel A. Akplogan > CEO, AfriNIC > www.afrinic.net > > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss > -- Cheers, McTim nic-hdl: TMCG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Aubin K.K ISPA-DRC _____ From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of McTim Sent: mercredi 27 juillet 2005 15:58 To: AfriNIC Discuss Subject: Re: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC training Plan: September-December 2005 Dear all, Apologies for the spam. As many of you know I help give the AfriNIC LIR course on a voluntary basis. Regards, McTim nic-hdl: TMCG -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050727/89de0991/attachment.htm From adiel at afrinic.net Tue Aug 9 01:55:26 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Fwd: potpourri Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050809015230.052ebec0@mail.afrinic.net> This is an interesting statement in regard of ongoing discussions in many RIRs policy forum about the actual IPv6 allocation policy. - a. >From: "Tony Hain" >To: >Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 14:28:52 +0200 > >Following up on the meeting session: > >As the IPv6 working group draws to a close the *only* proper action is to >recommend to the IESG that all stable and eligible documents be progressed >along the standards track. The IESG will do whatever it would anyway, so it >does no good to try to fineness things by endless debates about last minute >tweaks and the resulting potential to recycle in place. If there are minor >clarifications to make, those should be done as independent documents in the >context of addenda to the stable documents. IPv6 as the components which >functionally replace RFC 791, 826, etc. is complete. Solving problems that >are still unsolved in IPv4 remains as work for continuing or future working >groups. That does not diminish the stability of the base documents, so they >need to progress now. > >On the discussion about prefixes, we need to stop revisiting decisions. The >IETF does need to make a statement because leaving this to the RIRs is >equivalent to leaving the fox in charge of access to the chickens. The point >I was trying to make at the mic is that there are vocal participants in the >RIR community that are stuck in the conservation mindset and can't seem to >do basic math. They will agree with Thomas, Geoff, & Lea's work that without >doing anything IPv6 will be sufficient for a number of decades, but they >seem to loose context when the simple change of the HD from .8 to .94 buys >an order of magnitude which results in IPv6 being sufficient for a number of >*centuries*. That timeframe is substantially long enough that it becomes >difficult to grasp so without a good grasp of the lifetime their >conservation mindset steps in claiming the need to curtail wasted bits at >every turn. The whole /56 discussion is looking to take us from centuries to >tens (or hundreds if combined with the HD change) of millennia. What they >fail to recognize is that this is a zero sum game where we currently have a >balance, and moving the efficiency toward allocation removes it from >operational deployment models that are different from the past. It is >extremely easy to overlook the fact that some deployment models don't >currently exist because they can't under the constraints of current >allocation policy. This leads to a false belief that they will not appear >over the next several centuries because we have yet to see them, when the >reality is that it is the limited perspective policies which insure they >will not ever appear. The IETF has to take the position of broad vision here >and flatly state that undue conservation is detrimental. > >The RIR members are basically a greedy bunch. For those who have forgotten >history, the initial 64 bit proposal exceeded the IPv6 design requirements >by 3 orders of magnitude. At the start of the dot com boom it appeared there >would not be enough room for comfortable waste by the service providers in >terms of hierarchy so the entire 64 bits was dedicated to routing. Removing >the allocation needs of 10^15 hosts meant 'more than enough' was now 'more >than more than enough', particularly in light of the bust and consolidation. >Even so there are continuing complaints about the /64 boundary and demands >to relax that constraint because in historical deployment terms that number >of bits per subnet is a waste. Never mind the issue that at some point in >the lifetime of IPv6 the IEEE will be forced to move from 48 to 64 bit >EUI's... Fundamentally the RIR members just don't like being told what to >do. If left alone they will constrain network deployments to what has been >done in the past. It is up to the IPv6 WG to set the bar to avoid the state >where people are forced to work around the restrictive policies of a >provider and/or LIR/RIR. > >Finally it takes extreme hubris to believe that IPv6 is 'THE' protocol for >centuries or millennia to come. Technology moves on, and IPv6 will be >replaced long before the pool is exhausted. Those who point to the phone >system as an example conveniently overlook the rolling evolution that >effectively reduces the window of applicability. While there may be pockets >where things still work, in my experience equipment from 40 years ago is not >compatible with the current network so that example should be measured in >decades rather than centuries. Even the numbering has undergone periodic >change, so claiming we know enough to recognize allocation waste centuries >before the person with a bright new idea is born is the highest form of >arrogance. The /64 decision provides more than 'more than enough' routing >space, and the /48 decision allows flexibility at the site level without >significant impact on the service provider's ability to waste bits >themselves. Changing those values only makes it harder to innovate in the >space of automated configuration of site networks and hosts, and really >doesn't buy any useful time because we are talking about adding time to the >point well beyond the useful lifetime of the protocol. As I said in >draft-hain-prefix-consider-00.txt there may be business reasons to consider >other lengths, but there are no technical reasons. We need to state that >clearly before the IPv6 WG closes. > >Tony > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >IETF IPv6 working group mailing list >ipv6@ietf.org >Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 >-------------------------------------------------------------------- From adiel at afrinic.net Wed Aug 31 14:12:27 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] IP addresses returned to AfriNIC by TENET Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050831140632.030e28a8@mail.afrinic.net> [Sorry for cross posting] --------------------------------------- Joint announcement by AfriNIC and TENET --------------------------------------- Tertiary Education Network (TENET), in its role as a Local Internet Registry, has relinquished responsibility for the following six blocks of IPv4 address space: 192.96.0.0/16; 196.6.0.0/16; 196.10.0.0/16; 196.11.0.0/16; 196.13.0.0/16 and 198.54.0.0/16. AfriNIC has taken over the responsibility for these blocks and has updated its whois database accordingly. No current assignments from these blocks to any end user organisation are affected by this change. In particular, AfriNIC acknowledges and will respect the portability of such assignments. To perform its role as a registry, AfriNIC will contact holders of prefixes in the related blocks in order to get the correct contact information so that these assignments can be properly registered in the public whois database. TENET remains the Local Internet Registry responsible for the blocks 196.21.0.0/16 and 196.24.0.0/16. Assignments from these blocks are not portable in the hands of assignee organisations, as route announcements to all addresses in these blocks are aggregated within TENET's ASN 2018. By way of background, the six blocks listed above were originally allocated by the then Internic to TENET's predecessor organisation, the UNINET Project of the then Foundation for Research Development. Over the years many assignments, mostly small ones, were made to organisations throughout South Africa without regard to the type of organisation, locality or aggregatability of routes. In April 2005, AfriNIC took over from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), the R?seaux IP Europ?ens - Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) and the Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean Network Information Centre (APNIC) the responsibility to serve Africa and the Indian Ocean Regions as a Regional Internet Registry (RIR). TENETs request that AfriNIC takes over the responsibility simply reflects the fact that TENET has no business relationship with the great majority of assignees and has no value to add through being the responsible LIR. All enquiries regarding assignments from the above-mentioned six blocks should henceforth be directed to AfriNIC at hostmaster@afrinic.net. Adiel A. Akplogan CEO AfriNIC Ltd. www.afrinic.net From dogwallah at gmail.com Tue Sep 13 17:27:19 2005 From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Fwd: [governance] Invitation: Global Dialogue on Internet Governance In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting, I think this might be of interest to folk on all lists: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Milton Mueller Date: Sep 13, 2005 5:42 PM Subject: [governance] Invitation: Global Dialogue on Internet Governance To: governance@lists.cpsr.org Dear Colleagues, As a contribution to the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), you are invited to participate in a web-based Global Deliberative Dialogue on Internet Governance, from 19-30 September 2005. For more information, and to register, go to: http://www.webdialogues.net/igp. The purpose of this Global Dialogue is to raise awareness of Internet Governance, to broaden participation in the policy debate, and to provide concrete input into the final deliberations during the Third Preparatory Meeting for the WSIS, taking place concurrently with the Global Dialogue in Geneva. The web-based structure of the dialogue will allow diverse voices from around the world to contribute to these important deliberations without traveling to Geneva. The Global Dialogue explores the findings and recommendations of the official report of the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (http://www.wgig.org), and will address: (1) The WGIG itself, and lessons learned from its processes; (2) The working consensus definition of Internet Governance; (3) The public policy issues identified in the WGIG report; (4) The roles and responsibilities outlined by the report; and (5) The four governance models proposed by the report. Each of the four main sections of the dialogue will be introduced by an optional real-time "synchronous" webconference that will feature updates from participants on the ground in Geneva. At the heart of the Global Dialogue are the daily "asynchronous" web-based deliberations on the public policy issues and governance models proposed for Internet Governance. For each discussion topic, panels of experts and active participants in the WSIS processes will be available. The digital library includes extensive and searchable background information. Daily summaries will capture the main discussion points and questions raised. Periodic polls will capture the viewpoints of participants and may aid in the development of consensus positions. This dialogue is hosted by the Internet Governance Project (http://www.internetgovernance.org), in conjunction with the Collaboratory on Technology Enhanced Learning Communities (Cotelco) at the School of information Studies, the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at the Maxwell School, the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA), and WestEd. Your participation in this Global Deliberative Dialogue is critical. We want to be as inclusive as possible to broaden and increase global participation in and awareness of the issues of Internet Governance. The ideas discussed in the dialogue will be fed into the decision-making processes in Geneva, and may help to serve as model for global deliberative policy dialogues in general. Please share this announcement with other individuals, groups and countries. The dialogue website is publicly available. To learn more about the Dialogue and to register to participate, please visit the dialogue Web site: www.webdialogues.net/igp. For more information, please contact Dr. Derrick L. Cogburn at dcogburn@syr.edu. Dr. Milton Mueller Syracuse University School of Information Studies http://www.digital-convergence.org http://www.internetgovernance.org _______________________________________________ governance mailing list governance@lists.cpsr.org https://ssl.cpsr.org/mailman/listinfo/governance -- Cheers, McTim nic-hdl: TMCG From ernest at afrinic.net Wed Sep 14 16:38:18 2005 From: ernest at afrinic.net (Ernest Byaruhanga) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC LIR Training - Nairobi, Kenya Message-ID: <432835DA.5070401@afrinic.net> AfriNIC LIR Training - Nairobi, Kenya ===================================== Dear Colleagues In our continuous efforts to inform and sensitize our community about the management and allocation of Internet number resources, we are organizing our 6th LIR training in Nairobi, Kenya (After Ouagadougou, Maputo (FR/ENG), Pretoria, Dakar). Date: ----- 06th October 2005 Venue: ------ Hilton Hotel - Nairobi Time: 9h00-18h00 Cost: ----- Free Who may attend: --------------- - AfriNIC members/LIRs - Anybody else interested in the RIR system of management and distribution of internet number resources. For registration, please click on the link below: http://www.afrinic.net/training/registration.htm The agenda for the training can be found here: http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm For any other information or request for invitation letters, please feel free to send an email to training@afrinic.net. See you soon in Nairobi! Kind regards, AfriNIC Training Team --------------------- From eric at afrispa.org Mon Sep 19 23:31:48 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] FWD: [AfrISPA.Discuss] ACTS and AfrISPA AGM Message-ID: <200509192331.AA115212618@afrispa.org> Dear AfNOG and AfriNIC, Am collaborators with us in developing the Infrastructure of the Internet in Africa, we would like to inform you of our pending AGM and active particpation in the ACT Summit. We invite you to join in the engagements. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Eric Osiakwan" Reply-To: Discuss@afrispa.org Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:09:24 +0200 Dear AfrISPA Members, This is to update you on the upcoming ACT Summit which is taking shape @ http://www.aitecafrica.com/pages/act_summit.htm . As a supporting organization we encourage our members to register and participate actively in the event as it holds a lot of prospects for business and development. The date for our AGM slated for ACTS is now 5th October 2005 at 3pm at the same venue, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Sandton, Joburg and the agenda remains; >>> 1 Welcome & Apologies >>> 2 New members >>> 3 Minutes of last Meeting >>> 4 Additional Agenda items >>> 5 Reform Proposal >>> 6 Reports - Country Reports >>> 6.1 Chairman's Report >>> 6.2 General Manager's Report >>> 6.3 Financial Report >>> 6.4 CATIA Project Report >>> 6.5 Presentation of Position Papers >>> 6.6 IDRC Project Reports >>> 6.7 African Regional Carrier Presentation >>> 7 Special Resolutions >>> 8 The Way Forward - Open Discussion >>> 9 Elections >>> 10 Closing of AGM NB; We have a country update in the programme for which we want the various ISPAs that are represented to give us update on what is going on in their various countries so please plan to do that and write me a private memo on same. I have attached the current ACTS Programme for your consideration. Thank you. -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/octet-stream Size: 563200 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050919/98eb8466/attachment.obj From adiel at afrinic.net Mon Sep 26 19:05:00 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-3: Cairo 11-14 December 2005 Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050926185932.032c4ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Dear colleagues, AfriNIC will have its third public policy meeting in Cairo (Egypt) from 11 to 14 December 2005. This meeting which is part of our policy development process is our second meeting for 2005. It will be held back to back with the first African IPv6 event (hosted by the Egyptian IPv6 Forum). The meeting plan is as follows: 11 December: LIR training (English) Registration already open 12 December: IPv6 Hands on Workshop Registration opening on October 1st 13 December: African IPv6 meeting Presentation on IPv6 and different initiatives in Africa 14 December: AfriNIC public Policy meeting The meeting will be held at: Mena House Oberoi, Pyramids Road, Giza, Egypt http://www.oberoimenahouse.com We are looking forward to seeing you in Cairo. The full agenda and other details about this meeting will be online shortly on the AfriNIC website. In the mean time you, can contact our coordination team at meeting@afrinic.net. Kind regards Adiel A. Akplogan www.afrinic.net From adiel at afrinic.net Mon Sep 26 19:31:51 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-3: Cairo 11-14 December 2005 In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20050926185932.032c4ec0@mail.afrinic.net> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20050926185932.032c4ec0@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20050926192824.0619d838@mail.afrinic.net> >The meeting will be held at: >Mena House Oberoi, >Pyramids Road, Giza, Egypt >http://www.oberoimenahouse.com Some quick information for those who want to reserve their hotel room from now: Accommodation: For hotel reservation, participants are kindly requested to directly contact: Mr. Mohammed Wagdy Assistant Sales Manager Oberoi Hotels and Resorts, Egypt Tel: + (2 02) 377 3222 Fax: + (2 02) 376 7777 email: Sales@Oberoi.com.eg Room rates*, in US Dollars, per night, inclusive of Buffet Breakfast, subject to Service Charge and Taxes, are as follows: Garden Wing: Single Room Garden View: USD 70 Double Room Garden View: USD 80 Single Room Pyramid View: USD 85 Double Room Pyramid View: USD 95 Palace Wing: Palace Single non-Pyramid View: USD 150 Standard Single Pyramid View: USD 175 Executive Suite: USD 500 * Reference should be made to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) to benefit from the above special rates. ** Note that these rate will applied only for a stay during the event period. Adiel A. Akplogan. From dandjinou.pierre at undp.org Tue Sep 27 19:18:25 2005 From: dandjinou.pierre at undp.org (dandjinou.pierre@undp.org) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic@CERN Message-ID: <586fb52fb3.52fb3586fb@undp.org> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050927/dfcf1d18/attachment.htm From mouhamet at next.sn Tue Sep 27 20:10:19 2005 From: mouhamet at next.sn (Mouhamet Diop) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic@CERN In-Reply-To: <586fb52fb3.52fb3586fb@undp.org> Message-ID: <200509271810.j8RIAMqa407105@mail4.itu.ch> Congratulations Pierre , Adiel and all the Board and Staff, This is a great chance for Afrinic to become one of the focal point for initiatives that support Innovation . I already see Afrinic doing a lot in the area of training LIR , that's excellent but we can foresee to move behond that line. The expertise driven by Afrinic need to share with Universities and research centers in Africa with a sustainable and selective approach in the support of the innovation in the African ICT Environment.. Regards Mouhamet Diop _____ From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of dandjinou.pierre@undp.org Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:18 PM To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net; board@afrinic.net Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic@CERN Dear all, This to inform that upon the invitation of the Organizers (CERN, Geneva) and with the support of ISOC, Afrinic (its Chairperson and CEO) attended the Workshop on African Research and Education networking which took place from 25 to 27 September. The workshop brought together a number of organisations with a strong interest and mandate to improve Internet connectivity for tertiary education institutions in Africa. The developments within Afrinic as well as other sister organizations such as Afnog and Afrispa have been introduced to this well attended meeting. The workshop was held concurrently with the Prepcom3 of the WSIS and its outcome will be promoted during the WSIS Summit in Tunisia. We expect Afrinic to be soon involved in a few research & networking activities on the continent and will welcome your usual collaboration and assistance. Warmest regards Pierre Dandjinou Chaiman, Afrinic -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050927/1ee2bfdc/attachment.htm From eric at afrispa.org Tue Sep 27 21:49:39 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic@CERN Message-ID: <200509272149.AA515964996@afrispa.org> Dear all, Congratulations on behalf of AfrISPA for attaining this feet. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Mouhamet Diop" Reply-To: AfriNIC Discuss Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:10:19 +0200 >Congratulations Pierre , Adiel and all the Board and Staff, > > > >This is a great chance for Afrinic to become one of the focal point for >initiatives that support Innovation . > >I already see Afrinic doing a lot in the area of training LIR , that's >excellent but we can foresee to move behond that line. > >The expertise driven by Afrinic need to share with Universities and research >centers in Africa with a sustainable and selective approach in the support >of the innovation in the African ICT Environment.. > > > >Regards > > > >Mouhamet Diop > > > > _____ > >From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net >[mailto:afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of >dandjinou.pierre@undp.org >Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:18 PM >To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net; board@afrinic.net >Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic@CERN > > > >Dear all, > >This to inform that upon the invitation of the Organizers (CERN, Geneva) and >with the support of ISOC, Afrinic (its Chairperson and CEO) attended the >Workshop on African Research and Education networking which took place from >25 to 27 September. > >The workshop brought together a number of organisations with a strong >interest and mandate to improve Internet connectivity for tertiary education >institutions in Africa. The developments within Afrinic as well as other >sister organizations such as Afnog and Afrispa have been introduced to this >well attended meeting. The workshop was held concurrently with the Prepcom3 >of the WSIS and its outcome will be promoted during the WSIS Summit in >Tunisia. > >We expect Afrinic to be soon involved in a few research & networking >activities on the continent and will welcome your usual collaboration and >assistance. > >Warmest regards > >Pierre Dandjinou > >Chaiman, Afrinic > > > > > -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- From paulos at sdnp.org.mw Wed Sep 28 10:51:11 2005 From: paulos at sdnp.org.mw (Dr Paulos Nyirenda) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: announced? - RE: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic@CERN In-Reply-To: <200509271810.j8RIAMqa407105@mail4.itu.ch> References: <586fb52fb3.52fb3586fb@undp.org> Message-ID: <433A759F.1193.6F7A7F@localhost> Congratulations AfriNic, all. I heard of this meeting in Geneva at PrepCom3 last week which was too late for us to arrange for and send a participant. Could someone please advise on where these or such events on AfriNIC are announced so that we can also better prepare for such interesting and important events? Regards, Paulos ====================== Dr Paulos B Nyirenda NIC.MW On 27 Sep 2005 at 20:10, Mouhamet Diop wrote: > > Congratulations Pierre , Adiel and all the Board and Staff, > > This is a great chance for Afrinic to become one of the focal point for initiatives > that support Innovation . I already see Afrinic doing a lot in the area of training > LIR , that?s excellent but we can foresee to move behond that line. The expertise > driven by Afrinic need to share with Universities and research centers in Africa with > a sustainable and selective approach in the support of the innovation in the African > ICT Environment.. > > Regards > > Mouhamet Diop > > > > From: afrinic-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:afrinic-discuss- > bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of dandjinou.pierre@undp.org > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:18 PM > To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net; board@afrinic.net > Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic@CERN > > > Dear all, > This to informthat upon the invitation of the Organizers (CERN, Geneva) and with the > support of ISOC, Afrinic (its Chairperson and CEO)attended the Workshop on African > Research and Education networking which took place from 25 to 27 September. The > workshop brought together a number of organisations with a strong interest and > mandate to improve Internet connectivity for tertiary education institutions in > Africa. The developments within Afrinic as well as other sister organizations such as > Afnog and Afrispa have been introduced to this well attended meeting. The workshop > was held concurrently with the Prepcom3 of the WSIS and its outcome will bepromoted > during the WSIS Summit in Tunisia. We expect Afrinic to be soon involved in a few > research &networkingactivities on the continent and will welcome your usual > collaboration and assistance. Warmest regards Pierre Dandjinou Chaiman, Afrinic > From dogwallah at gmail.com Wed Sep 28 14:45:12 2005 From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: announced? - RE: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic@CERN In-Reply-To: <433A759F.1193.6F7A7F@localhost> References: <586fb52fb3.52fb3586fb@undp.org> <200509271810.j8RIAMqa407105@mail4.itu.ch> <433A759F.1193.6F7A7F@localhost> Message-ID: Hi Paolos, I was able to go to the NREN event. While I saw Pierre and Adiel there, I don't think it was in any way an "AfriNIC" event. Here is the link to the page that lists the sponsors of this event. As you can see, AfriNIC was not listed as a sponsor. I agree with you that it would be useful to have these events posted in a variety of places in well in advance. -- Cheers, McTim nic-hdl: TMCG From dogwallah at gmail.com Wed Sep 28 14:56:29 2005 From: dogwallah at gmail.com (McTim) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: announced? - RE: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic@CERN In-Reply-To: References: <586fb52fb3.52fb3586fb@undp.org> <200509271810.j8RIAMqa407105@mail4.itu.ch> <433A759F.1193.6F7A7F@localhost> Message-ID: apologies, I forgot the link; On 9/28/05, McTim wrote: > > Here is the link to the page that lists the sponsors of this event. > As you can see, AfriNIC was not listed as a sponsor. http://tinyurl.com/86my9 -- Cheers, McTim nic-hdl: TMCG From quaynor at ghana.com Wed Sep 28 15:10:43 2005 From: quaynor at ghana.com (Nii N. Quaynor) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: announced? - RE: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic@CERN In-Reply-To: References: <586fb52fb3.52fb3586fb@undp.org> <200509271810.j8RIAMqa407105@mail4.itu.ch> <433A759F.1193.6F7A7F@localhost> Message-ID: <20050928130705.M82831@ghana.com> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:45:12 +0200, McTim wrote > Here is the link to the page that lists the sponsors of this event. > As you can see, AfriNIC was not listed as a sponsor. > wait a minute. must afrinic be a sponsor before it cooperates with an African R&E group? or inform its members of partnering for research? nii > -- > Cheers, > > McTim > nic-hdl: TMCG > > _______________________________________________ > afrinic-discuss mailing list > afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net > http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss -- Ghana.com Services (http://webmail.ghana.com) From dandjinou.pierre at undp.org Wed Sep 28 15:23:24 2005 From: dandjinou.pierre at undp.org (dandjinou.pierre@undp.org) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: announced? - RE: [afrinic-discuss] Afrinic@CERN Message-ID: <54bbf5808c.5808c54bbf@undp.org> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20050928/775a5dc2/attachment.htm From baeshun at aau.org Tue Oct 4 11:29:07 2005 From: baeshun at aau.org (Benjamin A. Eshun) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Building momentum for African Research and Education networking Message-ID: <43424B63.18519.1C81CA@localhost> The next two months will see unprecedented global attention focused on the prospects of African education, research and outreach communities for networking among themselves and linking with global communities. The first event ? organised by Internet2 in Philadelphia on September 18? is entitled Progress and Challenges in Building National Research and Education Networks in Africa: A View from the Field. It acquainted a mainly North American audience with the prospects for African networks through a series of presentations and discussions by African experts. . http://international.internet2.edu/resources/events/2005/2005FMMAFRICA INFO.html >From September 25 to 27, CERN, ITU and the United Nations University organised an International Workshop on African Research and Education Networking aimed at facilitating scientific and medical collaboration. The Geneva workshop built on the results of Philadelphia, engaged more European and international participation, and introduced the concept of AFUNet ? an Africa wide research and education network. http://event-africa-networking.web.cern.ch/event-africa-networking/pro gram.html In Tunis on November 14 and 15, the Association of African Universities will convene a Conference on African Research and Education Network Infrastructure followed by a workshop on national networks. Many African and international participants in the Tunis Conference will also have been active in Philadelphia and Geneva. The AAU event will thus be positioned to capture the results of these prior meetings. While the international community will be present in Tunis the main aim is to bring together a critical mass of African expertise to develop a road map which integrates the many initiatives that are developing and captures the synergies among them. http://www.aau.org/tunis; http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-86675-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html Many partners have been involved in planning some or all of the above events including IDRC and the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa which both have a long history of working on networking issues with African universities. For further information please visit the websites identified above. If you are interested in attending the Tunis Conference and participating in developing a road map for future networking in Africa please register on the AAU site. -- <*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*> Benjamin A. Eshun Operations Assistant (IT) Association of African Universities t: +233-21-774495/761588 f: +233-21-774821 m: +233-24-432-1957 w: http://www.aau.org <*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*><*> From adiel at afrinic.net Thu Oct 6 21:41:03 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfriNIC-3: Registration is now open. Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20051006213101.06afdb90@mail.afrinic.net> Dear Colleagues, As announced a few days ago, AfriNIC will be having its third public policy meeting (AfriNIC-3) in Cairo (Egypt) on the 14th of December. This event will take place with the first African IPv6 meeting which is to be hosted by the Egyptian IPv6 Task force on the 13th of December. * Registration for both events is now open. http://www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-3/registration.htm You can check information about the meeting by visiting the meeting web page at: http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-3 The meeting include two training sessions. An LIR training on the 11th and an IPv6 hands-On training on the 12th of December. Registration for these training sessions is also open on the AfriNIC web site. http://www.afrinic.net/training/registration-cairo.htm For any further information, please contact meeting@afrinic.net or call our office at +230 466 66 16. Regards. Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net From meeting at afrinic.net Fri Oct 7 14:28:42 2005 From: meeting at afrinic.net (AfriNIC Meeting team) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Call for Presentation: 1st Africa IPv6 meeting - 13 December 2005 Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20051007142811.0310b4a0@ssss> AfriNIC-3 and Africa IPv6 Meeting ================================= Call for Presentations during the IPv6 day (13 December). --------------------------------------------------------- AfriNIC and The Egyptian IPv6 Task Force are organizing a two days Ipv6 event collocated with AfriNIC-3 public policy meeting. For the IPv6 meeting which will be held on the 13 December, we invite applications from people who wish to make a presentation on their IPv6 experience or any topic related to IPv6 deployment in their country or region. We also welcome any program suggestions for the day. Background ---------- AfriNIC is the Regional Internet Registry for Africa and Indian Ocean. AfriNIC community has expressed during its second public policy meeting in Maputo (April 2005) the need for more awareness on IPv6 in the region. Following the meeting, a mailing list (afripv6-discuss@afrinic.net) has been set up for ipv6 related discussions and a project to organize various IPv6 events across the continent. The Cairo event will be the first one. About the IPv6 conference ------------------------- This event aims to provide forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to Ipv6 development and experience not only from Africa but also from other regions. How to apply ------------ If you are interested in making a presentation at the AfriNIC-3 or the IPv6 day, please submit a proposal as soon as possible, but not later than 21 October 2005. Your submission must include the following information: - speaker/presenter name and affiliation, - email address and phone number, - proposed title, - requested time allocation (between 15 and 1 hour) - an abstract of no more than 200 words Deadlines --------- Submission deadline: 21 October 2005 Notification by: 1 November 2006 Send Requests to: presentation@afrinic.net Timetable of the whole event: ----------------------------- AfriNIC LIR training 11 December 2005 IPv6 hands on training 12 December 2005 Africa IPv6 day 13 December 2005 AfriNIC Policy meeting 14 December 2005 Kind regards. ================ See you at AfriNIC-3 and AfriIPv6 Meeting Cairo, Egypt 11-14 December 2005 www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-3 From paulos at sdnp.org.mw Mon Oct 10 17:24:00 2005 From: paulos at sdnp.org.mw (Dr Paulos Nyirenda) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Any AfriNIC events during Tunis WSIS? In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20051006213101.06afdb90@mail.afrinic.net> Message-ID: <434AA3B0.9278.19DFED3@localhost> Will there be any specific Afrinic evets during WSIS in Tunis? Anything planned for afnog? AFTLD? Regards, Paulos ====================== Dr Paulos B Nyirenda MwSDNP, .mw ccTLD, NIC.MW http://www.sdnp.org.mw http://www.registrar.mw From bortzmeyer at nic.fr Wed Oct 12 10:01:23 2005 From: bortzmeyer at nic.fr (Stephane Bortzmeyer) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: Any AfriNIC events during Tunis WSIS? In-Reply-To: <434AA3B0.9278.19DFED3@localhost> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20051006213101.06afdb90@mail.afrinic.net> <434AA3B0.9278.19DFED3@localhost> Message-ID: <20051012080123.GA13497@nic.fr> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 05:24:00PM +0200, Dr Paulos Nyirenda wrote a message of 20 lines which said: > Will there be any specific Afrinic evets during WSIS in Tunis? Adiel Akplogan, CEO, will talk at the round table on the digital divide, on november 18th. > AFTLD? AFTLD really exists? From meeting at afrinic.net Mon Oct 17 13:13:56 2005 From: meeting at afrinic.net (AfriNIC Meeting team) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] RE: [policy-wg] AfriNIC-3: Cairo 11-14 December 2005 In-Reply-To: <6ADE7B2FDDD08E4C8637A0C68F1E477839AEB3@dc3.nssfug.org> References: <6ADE7B2FDDD08E4C8637A0C68F1E477839AEB3@dc3.nssfug.org> Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20051017130955.0383c130@pop.gmail.com> Dear Immy, The registration details are available at: http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-3/registration.htm For any further information about the meeting please visit AfriNIC-3 meeting page at: http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-3/index.htm and do not hesitate to contact us at meeting@afrinic.net Kind regards. AfriNIC meeting Team. ================ See you at AfriNIC-3 and AfriIPv6 Meeting Cairo, Egypt 11-14 December 2005 www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-3 >I would like to attend, please send me registration details >Immy Byaruhanga >Kampala, Uganda. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: policy-wg-bounces@afrinic.net >[mailto:policy-wg-bounces@afrinic.net] On Behalf Of Adiel A. Akplogan >Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 8:05 PM >To: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net >Cc: policy-wg@afrinic.net; afripv6-discuss@afrinic.net >Subject: [policy-wg] AfriNIC-3: Cairo 11-14 December 2005 > >Dear colleagues, > >AfriNIC will have its third public policy meeting in Cairo (Egypt) >from 11 to 14 December 2005. This meeting which is part of our policy >development process is our second meeting for 2005. It will >be held back to back with the first African IPv6 event (hosted by the >Egyptian IPv6 Forum). > >The meeting plan is as follows: > >11 December: LIR training (English) > Registration already open > >12 December: IPv6 Hands on Workshop > Registration opening on October 1st > >13 December: African IPv6 meeting > Presentation on IPv6 and different initiatives in Africa > >14 December: AfriNIC public Policy meeting > >The meeting will be held at: >Mena House Oberoi, >Pyramids Road, Giza, Egypt >http://www.oberoimenahouse.com > >We are looking forward to seeing you in Cairo. The full agenda >and other details about this meeting will be online shortly on >the AfriNIC website. > >In the mean time you, can contact our coordination team at >meeting@afrinic.net. > >Kind regards > >Adiel A. Akplogan >www.afrinic.net > >_______________________________________________ >policy-wg mailing list >policy-wg@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/policy-wg > >_______________________________________________ >policy-wg mailing list >policy-wg@afrinic.net >http://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/policy-wg ================ See you at AfriNIC-3 and AfriIPv6 Meeting Cairo, Egypt 11-14 December 2005 www.afrinic.net/meetings/afrinic-3 From adiel at afrinic.net Mon Oct 24 18:56:13 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] AfNOG and AfriNIC Joint Announcement: AfNOG'2005/AfriNIC-4 Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20051024184955.0322a4c0@mail.afrinic.net> =============================================================== AfNOG and AfriNIC Joint Announcement: Meetings in May 2006 7th AfNOG Meeting AfriNIC-4 Meeting ================================================================ The African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) and the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) are pleased to announce that the 7th AfNOG Meeting and the AfriNIC-4 Meeting will be held Nairobi, Kenya, in May 2006. About the entire event AfNOG and AfriNIC are jointly organising a two-week event that includes the AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology (offering advanced training in a week-long hands-on workshop), several half-day Tutorials, a one-day AfNOG meeting, and a two-day AfriNIC meeting. Further information about the event may be found at and . Timetable AfNOG Workshop 7 - 12 May 2006 (Sunday - Friday) AfNOG Tutorials 14 May 2006 (Sunday) AfNOG Meeting 15 May 2006 (Monday) AfriNIC Meeting 16 - 17 May 2006 (Tuesday - Wednesday) Venue The event will be held in Nairobi, Kenya. The exact venue has not yet been finalised. Updated information will be made available at and . About AfNOG AfNOG (see ) is a forum for cooperation and the exchange of technical information between operators of Internet-connected networks in Africa. AfNOG has organised an event like this one every year since 2000. About AfriNIC AfriNIC (see ) is a Regional Internet Registry (RIR), responsible for the registration and allocation of Internet number resources in Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean. AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology The AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology aims to offer advanced training to people who are in the process of developing and enhancing an Internet-connected network with regional and international connectivity. The target audience includes senior and mid-level technical staff of commercial Internet service providers (ISPs), academic networks, government networks, or NGO networks. This workshop builds on the experience of previous AfNOG workshops held annually from 2000 to 2005 in six different African countries, and also the Internet Society's INET workshops, held annually from 1993 to 2000 at eight locations around the world. The workshop's instructors are an international team with many years of experience operating large networks and teaching about network operations. The workshop is divided into four parallel tracks: Track E0 - Unix System Administration (in English), focused on using a Unix-like operating system as a platform for delivery of Internet services. Track E1 - Scalable Internet Services (in English), focused on the design and operation of email, web, and other Internet services, in ways that can scale to handle large numbers of end users. Track E2 - Scalable Network Infrastructure (in English), focused on the design and operation of networks using routers and switches, in ways that can scale to handle large numbers of interconnected sites. Track F2 - Infrastructure R?seaux IP (en fran?ais), similar to track E2, but given in French. Further information and application forms are available at . AfNOG Tutorials On 14 May 2006, the day before the AfNOG conference, several tutorials will be offered. Tutorials are typically half a day in duration (4 hours including a break). Tutorials take place in a classroom-style environment, and may include a hands-on practical component. Tutorials are non-commercial in nature, and most are technically oriented. They are intended to highlight issues relating to technology already deployed or soon to be deployed on networking and related services provisioning for ISP operations. People interested in presenting a tutorial are invited to submit a proposal, following the instructions at . 7th AfNOG Meeting The 7th AfNOG meeting will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 15 May 2006. AfNOG conferences provide a forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices. The meetings are informal, with an emphasis on relevance to current and future African backbone engineering practices. Previous AfNOG conferences have attracted over 200 participants, mainly consisting of engineering staff from network service providers, managers from IT enterprises, and members of the research and education community. People interested in making a presentation or chairing a panel discussion at the AfNOG meeting are invited to to submit a proposal, following the instructions at http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/conference/. AfriNIC-4 Meeting The AfriNIC-4 meeting will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 16 and 17 May 2006. This meeting will be both a public policy meeting and an annual members meeting. The public policy part of the meeting will include discussion of proposed policies for how AfriNIC should manage resources such as IP addresses and AS numbers. The annual members meeting will include voting for Board members, and reporting on AfriNIC's activities. Further information is available at http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/ soon. Kind regards. From afrinic-dbm at afrinic.net Wed Nov 2 03:02:32 2005 From: afrinic-dbm at afrinic.net (Afrinic-dbm) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] (no subject) Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20051102/c9014d53/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: sms_text.zip Type: application/octet-stream Size: 6426 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20051102/c9014d53/sms_text.obj From eric at afrispa.org Sun Nov 13 23:27:19 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] (no subject) Message-ID: <200511132327.AA5113176@afrispa.org> Dear all, > the 16th to the 18th of November, the sun would stand still over Tunis the capital of Tunisia because the global Internet community would gather under the UN lead World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) to determine the future of the Internet and the Information Society in general. The summit would focus on Internet Governance to determine the future of the Internet and how to financing the Information Society for global inclusion. As a member of this community, am going to be sharing with us three articles; the first of which is "The Net wants to be decentrally governed" - sharing another perspective of the Internet Governance debate. Secondly, i would argue the case on "Open Access and Financing Principles for the Information Society" and then thirdly i would narrow my focus on "Africa in Internet Governance and financing the Information Society" - what does Africa bring to the table and what should she take home. Please enjoy the papers and feel free to revert back to me and more importantly am open to conversations around the issues and dont forget to share them. Also feel free to blog them as well leave comments on my bog @ http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html The Net wants to be decentrally governed By Eric M.K Osiakwan eric@afrispa.org http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Given that the key philosophy and ideology behind the framing of the Internet is for it to be decentralize and global, the argument can be made that its form of governance (Internet Governance) must of necessity follow the same protocol. The Internet is by definition a highly decentralize network of computer networks globally communicating with each other using the Internet Protocol and Transmission Control Protocol (IP/TCP) as a standard, this means that the Net wants to be decentrally governed. However I see the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva and now in Tunis trying to either centrally control or govern the Internet ? this can be defeatist. The modeling of the Internet as opposed to the old telephone network is such that the former is highly decentralized and the intelligence of the network is at the edges of it whiles the later is a highly centralized network with the intelligence at the core; this is the big deferential between the two platforms. The deferential is not just an engineering error or an inanimate discovery but a deliberate human design that seeks to create a distributed yet extremely collaborative platform for scaling global communication and commerce. The shift was necessary because the historic order which centralized the intelligence at the center of the network and demanded control from same was not scalable in the long term and was actually breakable. Hence in a simple way, the argument can be advanced that your level of governance of the Internet is commensurate to the ?amount? of Network and Intelligence you contribute to the global common. The thinking here is a paradigm shift from, the Internet is something somewhere that we must connect to and since we connect to it then we must be part of the governance of it to, the Internet is our network (inter-network) and as we build, we contribute our intelligence and at the same time we advance the governance of same within the globally agreed order of ?self policing?. The framing of the Internet to be a highly decentralized networks with the intelligence at the edges reflects a change in the humans relations culture of the 20th century; in which it was clear that we needed not to be centralized to govern but that we could govern better in a ?self governance? culture based on some code of conduct (for the machines that is IP/TCP). The decentralization phenomenon has an inherent logic that humans are unique and posse?s specificity and must be allowed to participate in the global culture so that if the intelligence is at the edges of the network then it means everyone has an opportunity to flourish based on his uniqueness and specialization in the intelligence practice. Further more the democratizing effect of the Internet is a definition of the governance structure where humans have advanced to a point where ?self governance? is better practiced taking into consideration the uniqueness, specificity and most importantly the need to innovate and invent. Innovation and invention is at the core of human civilization and so if we can?t create a society where both are advanced freely within an agreed framework then we are actually making an argument against human civilization. We all agree that the Internet is a positive platform for globalization so why are we trying to kill the uniqueness, innovation and inventiveness of same - that is what our current centralized approach to the Internet Governance debate means and I can see a lot of people pushing that front. My proposal is for us to step back a second as we come to Tunis for the final stage of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) and consider again not only our ?centralized? approach but the quest to centralized the Internet and its governance. The engineering argument is ?why fix it when it is not broken?? but I advance the argument that ?why break it in an attempt to fix it?? If you may, let me advance the argument a bit further on the need for the intelligence to be at the edges ? that is the best form of democracy. Today, any technology that is working on the Internet is decentralized or what we call thin-client, centralized approaches don?t last too long on the platform because the inherent logic is defeatist. Talk about Yahoo, MSN, Skype, ICQ etc they are all extremely distributed and function better in that environment. Functionality on the Internet is best in a distributed environment. The Internet is the best practice of ?distributed computing? and distributed computing is an exemplification of the human social system that builds on the compound ratio of individual intelligence. The Internet is representative of an epistemic regime that advances social inclusion or what some call ?inclusive capitalism? and that?s what the World Summit on Information Society is all about so why are we advancing in such a summit a centralized and or closed approach to the governance of the Internet? Inclusiveness is better advanced in a distributed environment than otherwise or else we would not be advancing an Information Society. Inclusive capitalism is predicated on the co-creative ability inherent is individualistic intelligence so in the school of co-creation, it is fair to meet your personal need if you can contribute (co-create) to the global commons in an agreed framework. I can hear the Internet wanting to be decentrally governed and this is true of the current structure and order because we all agree that Internet Governance is a broad term and practiced in deferent forms and forums. For example; the Internet Engineering TaskForce (IETF) builds the protocols that run the Internet; Coordination of the unique identifiers is currently being handled in a multi-stakeholder Public / Private Partnership known as ICANN, etc. There are other forms of Internet Governance that are not addressed like issues related to cyber-crime, spam, child pornography, hate-oriented content, the high costs of bandwidth in developing countries etc. Where, when and who would address these issues that are taking an extreme toll on the global common. Now the question is by centralizing and or controlling the approach to IG do we address those unaddressed issues or we actually create a platform for them to be totally ignored? The later is most possible because it is clear that we have different institutions and forums because not a single institution or forum can address all the issues. The argument can be made that inclusiveness is necessary and can best be served in a distributed environment with an agreed protocol rather than in a centralized one, so let me submit that as we advance the cause in Tunis, let?s be careful not to break the Internet in an attempt to fix it. -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- From eric at afrispa.org Sun Nov 13 23:53:51 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] The Net wants to be decentrally governed Message-ID: <200511132353.AA4851044@afrispa.org> Sorry, i forgot to title my e-mail. ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Eric Osiakwan" Reply-To: Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 23:27:19 +0200 > >Dear all, > >> the 16th to the 18th of November, the sun would stand still over Tunis the capital of Tunisia because the global Internet community would gather under the UN lead World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) to determine the future of the Internet and the Information Society in general. > >The summit would focus on Internet Governance to determine the future of the Internet and how to financing the Information Society for global inclusion. As a member of this community, am going to be sharing with us three articles; the first of which is "The Net wants to be decentrally governed" - sharing another perspective of the Internet Governance debate. Secondly, i would argue the case on "Open Access and Financing Principles for the Information Society" and then thirdly i would narrow my focus on "Africa in Internet Governance and financing the Information Society" - what does Africa bring to the table and what should she take home. > >Please enjoy the papers and feel free to revert back to me and more importantly am open to conversations around the issues and dont forget to share them. Also feel free to blog them as well leave comments on my bog @ http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html > > >The Net wants to be decentrally governed > >By Eric M.K Osiakwan > >eric@afrispa.org > >http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html > > > >Given that the key philosophy and ideology behind the framing of the Internet is for it to be decentralize and global, the argument can be made that its form of governance (Internet Governance) must of necessity follow the same protocol. The Internet is by definition a highly decentralize network of computer networks globally communicating with each other using the Internet Protocol and Transmission Control Protocol (IP/TCP) as a standard, this means that the Net wants to be decentrally governed. However I see the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva and now in Tunis trying to either centrally control or govern the Internet ? this can be defeatist. > > > >The modeling of the Internet as opposed to the old telephone network is such that the former is highly decentralized and the intelligence of the network is at the edges of it whiles the later is a highly centralized network with the intelligence at the core; this is the big deferential between the two platforms. The deferential is not just an engineering error or an inanimate discovery but a deliberate human design that seeks to create a distributed yet extremely collaborative platform for scaling global communication and commerce. The shift was necessary because the historic order which centralized the intelligence at the center of the network and demanded control from same was not scalable in the long term and was actually breakable. > > > >Hence in a simple way, the argument can be advanced that your level of governance of the Internet is commensurate to the ?amount? of Network and Intelligence you contribute to the global common. The thinking here is a paradigm shift from, the Internet is something somewhere that we must connect to and since we connect to it then we must be part of the governance of it to, the Internet is our network (inter-network) and as we build, we contribute our intelligence and at the same time we advance the governance of same within the globally agreed order of ?self policing?. > > > >The framing of the Internet to be a highly decentralized networks with the intelligence at the edges reflects a change in the humans relations culture of the 20th century; in which it was clear that we needed not to be centralized to govern but that we could govern better in a ?self governance? culture based on some code of conduct (for the machines that is IP/TCP). The decentralization phenomenon has an inherent logic that humans are unique and posse?s specificity and must be allowed to participate in the global culture so that if the intelligence is at the edges of the network then it means everyone has an opportunity to flourish based on his uniqueness and specialization in the intelligence practice. > > > >Further more the democratizing effect of the Internet is a definition of the governance structure where humans have advanced to a point where ?self governance? is better practiced taking into consideration the uniqueness, specificity and most importantly the need to innovate and invent. Innovation and invention is at the core of human civilization and so if we can?t create a society where both are advanced freely within an agreed framework then we are actually making an argument against human civilization. We all agree that the Internet is a positive platform for globalization so why are we trying to kill the uniqueness, innovation and inventiveness of same - that is what our current centralized approach to the Internet Governance debate means and I can see a lot of people pushing that front. > > > >My proposal is for us to step back a second as we come to Tunis for the final stage of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) and consider again not only our ?centralized? approach but the quest to centralized the Internet and its governance. The engineering argument is ?why fix it when it is not broken?? but I advance the argument that ?why break it in an attempt to fix it?? If you may, let me advance the argument a bit further on the need for the intelligence to be at the edges ? that is the best form of democracy. > > > >Today, any technology that is working on the Internet is decentralized or what we call thin-client, centralized approaches don?t last too long on the platform because the inherent logic is defeatist. Talk about Yahoo, MSN, Skype, ICQ etc they are all extremely distributed and function better in that environment. Functionality on the Internet is best in a distributed environment. The Internet is the best practice of ?distributed computing? and distributed computing is an exemplification of the human social system that builds on the compound ratio of individual intelligence. > > > >The Internet is representative of an epistemic regime that advances social inclusion or what some call ?inclusive capitalism? and that?s what the World Summit on Information Society is all about so why are we advancing in such a summit a centralized and or closed approach to the governance of the Internet? Inclusiveness is better advanced in a distributed environment than otherwise or else we would not be advancing an Information Society. Inclusive capitalism is predicated on the co-creative ability inherent is individualistic intelligence so in the school of co-creation, it is fair to meet your personal need if you can contribute (co-create) to the global commons in an agreed framework. > > > >I can hear the Internet wanting to be decentrally governed and this is true of the current structure and order because we all agree that Internet Governance is a broad term and practiced in deferent forms and forums. For example; the Internet Engineering TaskForce (IETF) builds the protocols that run the Internet; Coordination of the unique identifiers is currently being handled in a multi-stakeholder Public / Private Partnership known as ICANN, etc. There are other forms of Internet Governance that are not addressed like issues related to cyber-crime, spam, child pornography, hate-oriented content, the high costs of bandwidth in developing countries etc. Where, when and who would address these issues that are taking an extreme toll on the global common. > > > >Now the question is by centralizing and or controlling the approach to IG do we address those unaddressed issues or we actually create a platform for them to be totally ignored? The later is most possible because it is clear that we have different institutions and forums because not a single institution or forum can address all the issues. The argument can be made that inclusiveness is necessary and can best be served in a distributed environment with an agreed protocol rather than in a centralized one, so let me submit that as we advance the cause in Tunis, let?s be careful not to break the Internet in an attempt to fix it. > > > > >-- >Eric M.K Osiakwan >Executive Secretary >AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) >Tel: + 233.21.258800 >Fax: + 233.21.258811 >Cell: + 233.244.386792 >Handle: eosiakwan >Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North >Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North >Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html >Slang: "Tomorrow Now" >-- > > -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- From eric at afrispa.org Mon Nov 14 10:14:30 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Re: [AfrISPA.Discuss] The Net wants to be decentrally governed Message-ID: <200511141014.AA6226626@afrispa.org> Sewanu, On this ocassion i think u read my paper incorrectly and i dont have a problems with you expressing your views on the subject. In this essay, am underlining the most fundamental principle which is responsible for the phenomenal growth of the Internet but we have all ignored in the discussion about the future of the Net in the IG framework. The Internet enforces and exist the principle and practise that "governance is not necessarily contralised but rather co-ordinated and collaborated in a decentralised environment" because the intelligence of the inter-network (Networkd called Internet) is at the edges of that Network. So there is nothing in the middle that we want to take control off and govern, please i submit that it is not there. Eric here ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Sewanu Kponou Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 18:49:02 -0800 (PST) >Eric, > > If I am reading your article correctly it is about the US relinquishing sole control of the ICAAN. My understanding is that the fear of other nations of been cut-off are exagerated, for the simple reason that it will take the cooperation of umpteen exchanges to completely shut down any one nation. However if the rest of the world sees it fit then it is up to 5.5 billion (vs 400 mil) people to come together and create an alternative means of dealing with the situation. The new IPv6, I think, should get around the problem of inadequate domain names etc., that the IPv4 is facing. I do believe that there is going to be some grandstanding ( US versus the rest) to see who is the first to blink. > Seems like in the last few years the rest of the world is starting to challenge varoius positions in which the US assumed it was the supreme leader. On Yahoo, whenever this topic comes up, it is interesting to see the American response. It is heavily on the side of asking the rest of the world to go form their own internet that they can control. The US cannot see the UN presiding over ICAAN, especially with Kofi Annan at the helm. > For whatever it is worth, it will be interesting to see how this issue plays out, two to three years from now. > > > > > >1213 Milton Terrace >Atlanta, GA. 30315 >Ph. (678) 508-1524 >e-Fax (678) 623-0249 > >--------------------------------- > Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. > -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- From eric at afrispa.org Tue Nov 15 10:12:42 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Open Access and Financing Principles for the Information Society Message-ID: <200511151012.AA145425376@afrispa.org> Open Access and Financing Principles for the Information Society By Eric M.K Osiakwan Visiting Fellow and Scholar, DV Program, Stanford University eric@afrispa.org http://www.openaccessforafrica.org Introduction The second priority from the Geneva phases of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) was the financing of the Information Society but the Internet Governance debate has overshadowed this. Given that I have made a submission on the later I feel obliged to contribute my 50 cents to the former ? for me financing the information society should take more precedence over the Internet Governance debate. Financing the information Society is a tall order because there are so many things to be financed and the financing principles, priorities and practice seems a bigger challenge, may be that?s why we are giving it less priority but in this essay I would try to make an easy attempt focusing on the financing of infrastructure. Infrastructure is at the core of all the services and products we are envisaging to make the information society so priority must be given to the financing of same. This is not to say the financing of the others should be done later because they can be done simultaneously and as a matter of fact some of the principles am going to advance would be better served in a multi-track approach. I think our first consideration should be the need to separate infrastructure from products and services and this distinction is advanced in the global communication paradigm. There is a general consensus to move from the ?silos? approach to the communication system to a ?horizontal layering? approach. In the silos approach what happened was everyone could do anything once they where licensed to, which meant that companies needed to build capital intensive infrastructure in order to provide services and trade products. This also meant that the end product or service was expensive for the market which meant it was less affordable for the majority. Horizontal Layering The horizontal layering approach is to distinguish infrastructure from services though there are other logical distinctions between: ? The physical layer (the actual physical infrastructure); ? The logical layer (managing the connection between the physical infrastructure and higher layers); ? The applications layer (which includes things such as the Web browser), and ? The content layer (voice, data or images conveyed by the network.) Each layer has a set of functional rules that allow it to interface with the other layer and for information to flow over the network. Any player, including new players, can use different elements of the network, or the entire network, to provide services. The IP-based architecture of the network makes it possible for services to be provided, and innovation to occur, at any point on the network, including, notably, the edges, where the network can be further ?grown? as well. Different segments of the market ? and different layers of the network -- will naturally have different structures, and will attract players with different business models. For example, in most countries and regions, it will not be feasible or logical to have more than one or two providers of backbone infrastructure. The key issue in an Open Access model is to ensure that no player in one of the layers can block access to another layer or to the rest of the network through having dominant market power in one or another layer; hence some key principles of Open Access must be advanced at this stage. Key Principles of the Open Access Model 1. Anyone can play Particularly because of the potential for locally-provided services and network growth ?at the edges? made possible by flexible technology and open network models, Open Access models should assure that any provider willing to play by the rules can ?plug and play? in the network. 2. Technological neutrality Regulation should be technology-neutral, taking into account the cost and physical properties of the technologies themselves. No one should be stopped from using a particular technology and indeed a progressive regulator would encourage cost reduction through technology innovation. One needs to recognize that in future a wide range of applications will require higher bandwidth. But there may be no significant (order of magnitude) improvements in the performance of fibre, particularly its installation. However with wireless there will be significant improvements in performance and cost/capacity ratio and therefore wireless solutions will become more attractive in local distribution applications. 3. Fair and non-discriminatory competition at all layers Competition should be fair and non-discriminatory. There should be no predatory pricing, cross-subsidisation or aggressive cross-ownership. Regulators will need to be capable of dealing with a range of competition issues to ensure a genuine level playing field, and to prevent market strength in one layer from creating unfair competitive advantage at another layer. For all services at a given layer, there ought to be at least two providers and whenever there are not 4-5 providers of a particular service, issues of competitive position would need to be examined. What is true for countries at a national level holds true at a regional and international level. Ideally any country should have a choice of at least two providers to connect to neighbours and the rest of the world. The EU competition policy formulation of ?significant market power? provides a useful benchmark against which competitive position might be examined. 4. Transparency to ensure fair trading within and between layers Competitive markets thrive on transparent information about market prices and service. Internal accounting processes in companies need to be sufficiently transparent to enforce fair trading. If there is tradable bandwidth ? particularly at an international level ? it will allow clear comparisons to be made between different providers. There needs to be greater levels of consumer information to allow comparisons between ?offers?, including offers at the interface between layers. The different roles of players need to be transparent. In order to create trust in the market, infrastructure providers need to be clear that they will not enter service markets to compete with their customers. The regulator exists to encourage competition rather than restrict it but to do so in a way that genuinely encourages increased investment and lower access costs to communications technology. Where appropriate, regulation becomes ?light-touch? rather than prohibitive or restrictive. Government exists to create the legal framework through which competition issues can be mediated. 5. Everyone can connect to everyone else at the layer interface. In order for a competitive market to function, everyone must be able to connect to everyone else. Service providers would be able to get access to infrastructure from the local to the international level, whether they were small or large entities. There will be inevitable interconnection rate issues where the interests of the infrastructure provider in keeping re-investing in the network need to be weighed against the opportunities that can be created for greater levels of new business. 6. Devolved rather than centralised solutions It is important to ensure that the ?intelligence? in the network is to be found at the edges of the infrastructure rather than at its centre. In other words, the infrastructure provider should not be allowed to reserve for itself all of the functions that create value in the market. In practical terms, it should be possible to create a local entity that can operate on the small or medium-scale and can ?plug into? the network without needing to cede control over its activities to the infrastructure provider. Local operators need to be able to own and control a significant level of ?intelligence? in the system (eg billing, features, etc) to encourage open access. Having advanced the following principles a couple of financing mechanisms are made possible namely; ? Market funding - support projects that demonstrate market demand and make a return for investors. This can be found through loan, debt and equity and an Open Access approach would be facilitated by access to local funds through SME loan programmes and local and regional stock exchanges. ? Market ?stretch? funding - support the development of projects where market demand will support them in the medium to long term (5-10 years) and where either soft loan repayments are made or capital gains can be made through later sale of shareholding. This would also cover public-private funding partnerships. ? Social funding - is given because something needs to be supported because it has broader, non-market, development objectives where the returns looked for are social rather than financial. In communications terms, this would cover those parts of a country where service of any kind could not be provided on anything like a market basis, irrespective of future growth. However these funding mechanisms must be implemented within a set of financial principles if public resources are to be used to intervene in the telecommunications sector, what should the criteria for these investments and projects be? Surprisingly, the criteria are not terribly complex, and there are only three. Readers not familiar with the sector and its traditions will be surprised to know that almost any project on the table today, such as SAT3 and EASSy fiber buildout, violate all of the following ?principles?. Public money should be used to create resources that are open to all customers, including future customers who may not yet exist. When private capital creates a resource one of the forms of ?Return on Investment? can be exclusion of future competitors. Private investors can give a price advantage to ?early? customers or they can simply deny ?late? customers a chance at all. Either form of exclusion is a fine strategy for private businesses investing private money. On the other hand, public money should be used to create opportunity, not exclude it or reserve it for a select group. To the degree that public money finances telecommunications, the network so created should be open to all customers, for all time, on equal terms. This does not mean early contributors of capital should not be paid a fair rate of interest for making their investment early, when risk is higher. It does mean that customers who come along five or ten years later should have access on terms that are determined by the global and regional economy as a whole. Fiber optic systems like EASSy in particular have very long operating life spans, 20 years or more, so they have the ability to grow their benefits to a region if given a chance; to have such a powerful resource controlled by a monopoly consortium is especially damaging. Resources created with public money should be sold on a cost-recovery basis. Private investors in telecommunications seek a financial return (profit). They must charge the highest price they can get or they will eventually be pushed out by a competitor. Governments should endeavor to insure that private investors in telecommunications enterprises operate in a competitive market; that will hold prices down; but government should not regulate prices or regulate the market in other ways. Only the free market is powerful enough to defend the customer from the natural tendency for private companies to charge the highest price they can. Conversely, when public money is used to create telecommunications networks the situation changes; governments become active participants in the market; but the objective of government participants should not be to charge the highest price they can. The objective of investing public money in telecommunications should be to create the highest benefit to the citizens and economy as a whole. Government needs to satisfy ?investors? too, but in different ways. Government needs to deliver results, not profits. Because telecommunications is a high-technology product, the cost of capacity-creation is constantly dropping in real dollars. Certain layers of the telecommunications business involve extremely high levels of technical skill and expertise, so it is never a good idea for government to try and run a telecommunications network. However, parts of modern telecommunications networks, such as fiber optic ?backbones,? have all the physical and economic characteristics of roads and waterworks and other ?heavy infrastructure.? They are the kinds of resources government can help finance without getting into something too complex for governments to manage. But to achieve maximum benefit these resources need to be made available. That means public money should not seek a financial return, but should buy the delivery of capacity into a fair market at the lowest price possible (which is a price that seeks to recover cost and no more). In fact, public money should not be involved unless the explicit outcome will be a reduction in prices to customers. If public money can?t deliver that, then we have to ask if the free market is not already operating efficiently and if there may be no role or need for public money. Public money should not be invested in markets that are distorted by anti-competitive regulatory regimes. As stewards of public money, governments should not invest resources in an environment where customers and competitors are not treated fairly by law. Unfortunately in every African country today telecommunications regulations are a systematic labyrinth of laws that create unfair advantages for certain companies, drive costs up for many companies, and drive costs up and deny service to almost all customers. Investment of public money into projects which must operate in these distorted ?sub-economies? is a mistake; the vast quantity of telecommunications capacity created by a project like SAT3 or EASSy can only be productively sold in a fair and free market. Therefore, a precondition to large scale projects financed by global donor and World Bank money should be that governments clean regulatory house and create a business climate for telecommunications that is open and fair. The last point may be the hardest for Africa. The web of advantages created by the regulators, advantages that accrue to employee unions, government officials, and a handful of selected companies, is so grossly unfair and economically distorted that the backlash will be severe for any government bold enough to try and dismantle this powerful bureaucratic apparatus. It is an indicator of how important telecom is to the economies of Africa that such interests have been created in the first place; and an indicator of how much creative energy might be unlocked when these corrupt and hegemonic structures are finally dismantled. I conclude my pieces tomorrow with a focus on Africa ? ?Africa in Internet Governance and financing the Information Society? is next. Reference: This note draws from a study prepared for the WorldBank through InfoDev on ?Leveraging New Technologies and Open Access Models: Options for Improving Backbone Access in Developing Countries (with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa?, by a team consisting of Anders Comstedt, Russell Southwood and Eric Osiakwan, under the auspices of the consulting firm Spintrack @ http://www.infodev.org and http://www.spintrack.com It also draws from a paper written by Roland Alden on Public Finance of Telecommunication @ www.ralden.com/C1/EASSy/default.aspx -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- From eric at afrispa.org Wed Nov 16 14:34:11 2005 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Africa in Internet Governance and financing the Information Society Message-ID: <200511161434.AA56361652@afrispa.org> Dear All, Today the WSIS is taking off but am completing my series as promised so please enjoy the last piece and thanks for your attention. Africa in Internet Governance and financing the Information Society By Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary of AfrISPA eric@afrispa.org http://www.afrispa.org Africa stands at a very unusual threshold of the Information Society because it is the least developed continent and seeking to use Information Communication Technology (ICTs) to advance its developmental cause but at the same time caught in the web of ideas taking position on not only Internet Governance but financing of the Information Society. As an African I see the dilemma and seek in this final in the series of papers to make some suggestion to our community on how we can sail this storm because it is not an easy one. In my earlier essays namely; ?the Net wants to be decentrally governed? and ?Open Access and Financing Principles for the Information Society? I laid the foundation for this paper so you are better able to understand my proposals if you read those first. However I would advance this commentary by summing up the critical assumptions, linking them and extrapolating for the benefit of Africa. The modeling of the Internet as opposed to the old telephone network is such that the former is highly decentralized and the intelligence of the network is at the edges of it whiles the later is a highly centralized network with the intelligence at the core; this is the big deferential between the two platforms. The deferential is not just an engineering error or an inanimate discovery but a deliberate human design that seeks to create a distributed yet extremely collaborative platform for scaling global communication and commerce. In a simple way, the argument can be advanced that your level of governance of the Internet is commensurate to the ?amount? of Network and Intelligence we contribute to the global common. We can extrapolate further that it is paramount for Africa to prioritize its few resources on the building of our network and it?s intelligence at the edges of the global platform to contribute to the global collaboration in order to gain critical bargaining power as the Asians did. This is not to say Africa should not be part of the debate because it does not have the critical network needed but rather that we need to prioritize our few resources on where we can gain more weight and not use the scarce resource on elements of the structure which are porous. The suggestion for Africa to concentrate on her infrastructure development is not just rhetoric against our participation in global policy development but rather underscored by the fact that Africa is the most unwired continent in the world, most of its internal communication (voice, data, and video) has to be resolved internationally. This cost the continent a fortune hence the cost of communications is significantly higher in Africa than elsewhere in the world. It has been estimated that for data alone this routing of traffic costs the continent US$400 million a year . A forthcoming report on bandwidth projection for Sub-Saharan Africa predicts 24% overall growth in the three years up to 2008. According to a new report published by Balancing Act recently, the transmission capacity required to carry Africa?s international voice and data traffic increased by 91% in the three years to 5.09 Gbps 2002, will increase by at least 137% to 12.09 Gbps in the three years to 2005, and a further 81% to 21.9 Gbps in the three years to 2008. The demand projections suggest the need for a robust passive infrastructure build-out in and around Africa using fiber optics. There is an urgent need for new approaches to financing and building out information and communication infrastructure to address this large unmet demand for information and communication services. This leads me to my argument that if Africa has to build its network and intelligence then it must of necessity focus on the second and as far as am concerned the most important outcome of the Geneva phase which is ?financing the Information Society?. The ban of infrastructure, service and product development on the ICT track in Africa is due largely to the restrictive laws and an untrustworthy regulatory process that thwart the ability of local entrepreneurs and outside investors alike to supply the local markets with these technologies. The elimination of the existing (and emerging) legal and regulatory obstacles to open communications network deployment is a significant boost to private-sector investment. Given that the future of all voice, data, multimedia, and broadcast communications lies with packet-switched, Internet-based networks, the question for Africa is whether we will (a) embrace these open, decentralized, low-cost technologies, or (b) seek, as most have been doing, to prohibit or restrict them, under pressure from our state-owned monopoly telecom operators. In the more stable parts of Africa, the central obstacle to investment in Information Communications Technology deployment (and the spread of low-cost, reliable, up-to-date information and communications services) is foolhardy governmental regulation. Most African governments have imposed heavy-handed, restrictive, backward-looking, monopoly-protecting laws and regulations to the telephony sectors; many have currently moved aggressively to extend them to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the ICT sector at large. The result is that most African governments are, in large ways or small, actively discouraging or prohibiting investment in and deployment of ICTs in the areas of infrastructure, service and products. Most African still have astonishingly low rates of communications penetration. If the populations of those countries had ready, affordable access to high-speed Internet-based wireless voice data communications, the benefits could be tremendous: reduced costs of doing business; increased productivity and efficiency; greater political transparency, and new tools with which to fight corruption. The various issues mentioned above are all connected to each other: they raise the fundamental question of whether the African governments in question will recognize and embrace the fundamental shift toward Internet-based communications networks. The alternative, which is currently prevailing in nearly all developing countries, is for the government to cling to yesterday?s technology and do everything in its power to prop up the monopoly telecom. What makes the choice difficult is that it is not simply between old-fashioned telephone and new-fangled Internet technologies ? it is a choice between two ways of behaving as a government and society. The old ways, fitting the telephone network, were closed, centralized, controlled, and top-down; the new ways, like the Internet itself, are open, decentralized, competitive, and technology-neutral ? WAKE UP AFRICA. -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA (www.afrispa.org) Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Handle: eosiakwan Snail Mail: Pmb 208, Accra-North Office: BusyInternet - 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html Slang: "Tomorrow Now" -- From adiel at afrinic.net Tue Nov 22 18:30:10 2005 From: adiel at afrinic.net (Adiel A. Akplogan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] End of WSIS phase II Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20051122182848.05cc0d30@mail.afrinic.net> Dear Colleagues, The WSIS negotiations ended a few days ago with quite a positive result where in the final document, there is no change to the Internet governance system as it is today. The document also calls for the reinforcement of the actual regional organisation by an increased participation by all stakeholders including governments to the policy development process. "We are very pleased that the policy development processes of the Regional Internet Registries (RIR) have been recognized and reinforced by the Tunis Agenda. Over the coming months and beyond, we will continue our ongoing efforts to reach out to governments, as well as to other stakeholders, in order to exchange views on the Tunis outcomes and to develop priorities for the future" said Axel Pawlik the chairman of the NRO. (http://www.nro.net/archive/press-releases/wsis-20051117.html) AfriNIC fully endorses this view and will continue its effort to reach out to governments and all our stakeholders around the continent. The conclusion of the PrePcom for us is not the end but the beginning of a long process where the actual governance system must see more involvement from all the stakeholders and particularly from governments. In our region, the WSIS process had a very positive impact on governments and policy makers as it seriously brings their attention to the 'other side of the Internet', the governance side and its possible impact on the countries' economies. AfriNIC as one of the Internet governance players in Africa will continue work closely with other stakeholders to reinforce Africa participation in the Internet Governance process debates so that our region voice is heard where needed. We welcome you all to Cairo from 11 to 14 December 2005 at our third public policy meeting and the first African IPv6 event. (www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-3) Kind regards. Adiel A. Akplogan CEO, AfriNIC www.afrinic.net From afrinic-dbm at afrinic.net Wed Nov 23 18:26:59 2005 From: afrinic-dbm at afrinic.net (Afrinic-dbm) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:19 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Edward Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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