[AFRINIC-Announce] Registration Opens for the fourth AFRINIC IPv6 & RPKI e-Deployathon 2021

[AFRINIC Communication]

Dear Colleagues,
 
AFRINIC has less than 1,75 million IPv4 addresses left in its available pool. 

This, as you can tell, is grossly inadequate to meet Africa’s current IP address needs, making IPv6 the only sustainable way to continue to grow the potential of the Internet in Africa. In 2018, we designed and organised the world’s first Deployathon as a mechanism to bridge the gap between learning about IPv6 and actually implementing it.  

In 2020, we redesigned the event and delivered it entirely online attaining 24 deployment KPIs. This year, we’ve run 3 e-Deployathons with 15 organisations from 7 countries participating. They were able to accomplish 24 deployment KPIs:


	• 6 valid route6 object
	• 5 validated RPKI ROA objects
	• 4  address plans in IPAMS
	• 3 initial address plan
	• 2 IPv6 domain objects
	• 2 IPv6-enabled DNS
	• 1 advertised IPv6 prefix
	• 1 IPv6 prefix (PI)

If selected, you will get the same step-by-step guidance, tools, and techniques we have perfected in 10 (e-)Deployathons, and +100 helpdesk calls to help realise your IPv6 deployment project.

This is clearly a measurable step forward in accordance with your network change management processes.


Date:  28 - 30 September 2021
Time: 9:00 to 13:00 UTC - 4 hours each day
Location: Zoom 
Language: English
Eligibility: Qualified engineers from any country in Africa


If you are an engineer who runs a network and believes that you can make one concrete visible step towards IPv6 deployment (or advance your stalled IPv6 deployment), apply for a spot here: https://afrinic.net/edeployathon

 (Only 35 spots available)

Deadline for application: 20 September 2021. 

For more information and queries about e-Deployathons, please contact: do at afrinic.net 


Sincerely
 
AFRINIC Team