[afrinic-discuss] AfNOG and AfriNIC Joint Announcement: AfNOG'2005/AfriNIC-4

[Adiel A. Akplogan]

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     AfNOG and AfriNIC Joint Announcement: Meetings in May 2006

                       7th AfNOG Meeting

                       AfriNIC-4 Meeting
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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 <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/> and
     <http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/>.

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 <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/> and
     <http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/>.

About AfNOG

     AfNOG (see <http://www.afnog.org/>) 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 <http://www.afrinic.net/>) 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  Réseaux  IP (en français),
                 similar to track E2, but given in French.

     Further information and application forms are available at
     <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/workshop/>.

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
     <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/tutorial/>.

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.