[afrinic-discuss]AfriNIC now officially a fully fledged RIR!

[Yaovi Atohoun]

This is a very good news.
Many thanks to the pioneers, Adiel, the AfriNIC boards and the whole African 
community.

Yaovi
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From: "Adiel A. AKPLOGAN" <adiel at afrinic.net>
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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
>
>
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