<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p data-kwik="0" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;" class="">Dear Colleagues,</p><p data-kwik="0" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0;" class=""><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px;">AFRINIC is pleased to announce a new release of the RPKI core infrastructure (v2.0) as well as an updated interface of the Resource Certification section on MyAFRINIC (</span><a href="https://my.afrinic.net/" data-kwik="2" rel="nofollow" class="external-link" style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 1.4285715; color: rgb(59, 115, 175); text-decoration: none;">https://my.afrinic.net</a><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px;">).</span></p><p data-kwik="3" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">To access the Resource Certification section, connect to MyAFRINIC and navigate to Resources->Resource Certification, a BPKI certificate will be requested to authenticate yourself.</p><p data-kwik="4" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;" class="">Currently RPKI enrolled members, who already have a certificate with AFRINIC, will have to re-activate their engine. However, their current engine as well as old ROAs will remain active until revoked. You are invited to re-activate your engine and re-create your ROAs.</p><p data-kwik="5" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;" class="">For AFRINIC members, who have not yet activated their engine, please visit the Resource Certification page on <a href="http://afrinic.net/en/initiatives/resource-certification" data-kwik="6" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 115, 175); text-decoration: none;" class="external-link">http://afrinic.net/en/initiatives/resource-certification</a> for more details.</p><p data-kwik="7" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;" class="">For more information and a live demonstration, please join us at AIS2015 in Tunis for a full-day RPKI training on the Saturday, 30 May 2015. </p><p data-kwik="7" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto;" class="">See agenda <a href="http://internetsummitafrica.org/en/programme/agenda" data-kwik="8" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 115, 175); text-decoration: none;" class="external-link">http://internetsummitafrica.org/en/programme/agenda</a> for more details.</p><p data-kwik="7" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: relative; z-index: 0;" class=""><strong data-kwik="11" class="" style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px;">Salient features of the new release</strong></p><ul data-kwik="13" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><li data-kwik="14">The AFRINIC Root certificate now cover *ALL* resources managed by AFRINIC.</li><li data-kwik="15">Members can now get all allocated/assigned resources certified.</li><li data-kwik="16">AFRINIC has adopted a new minority-majority certification model. Instead of using one certificate, AFRINIC now manages a split certificates set namely:<ul data-kwik="17" style="margin: 0px; list-style-type: disc;" class=""><li data-kwik="18">AFRINIC-CA (Covers AFRINIC managed space for which AFRINIC is majority space holder)</li><li data-kwik="19">APNIC-TO-AFRINIC (Covers AFRINIC managed space for which APNIC is majority space holder)</li><li data-kwik="20">ARIN-TO-AFRINIC (Covers AFRINIC managed space for which ARIN is majority space holder)</li><li data-kwik="21">LACNIC-TO-AFRINIC (Covers AFRINIC managed space for which LACNIC is majority space holder)</li><li data-kwik="22">RIPE-TO-AFRINIC (Covers AFRINIC managed space for which RIPE is majority space holder)</li></ul></li></ul><ul data-kwik="23" style="margin: 10px 0px 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 19.0476188659668px; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><li data-kwik="24">AFRINIC has changed its repository structure from “flat” to “hierarchical”. All objects (certificates and ROAs) can be retrieved from one single URI (<a href="rsync://rpki.afrinic.net/repository" data-kwik="25" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 115, 175); text-decoration: none;" class="">rsync://rpki.afrinic.net/repository</a>)</li><li data-kwik="26">AFRINIC now supports MAX LENGTH as stipulated by <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6482#section-3.3" data-kwik="27" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 115, 175); text-decoration: none;" class="external-link">RFC6482</a> on the ROA format.</li><li data-kwik="28">AFRINIC certificates are now compliant to <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7318" data-kwik="29" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(59, 115, 175); text-decoration: none;" class="external-link">RFC7318</a> on policy qualifiers.</li></ul><div style="widows: 1;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="widows: 1;"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="line-height: 19px;">AFRINIC Communications</span></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>