<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-141f0560-7fff-1177-89c1-a7d89423d8fb" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear colleagues,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are pleased to share with you our recent blog publications by guest authors Emilia Cebrat-Maslowski and Brian Candler:</span></p><ol style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experimental IPv6-only network at APRICOT 2024</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Brian Candler </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 12pt;">from the NSRC </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">authors this article and discusses his experience using some of the recent mechanisms designed for "IPv6-mostly" networks to build an "IPv6-only" network during the APRICOT 2024 meeting.</span></p></li></ol><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read the full article at: https://blog.afrinic.net/apricot-ipv6-only</span></p><ol start="2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><h1 dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cyber Insights: African Perspectives</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Emilia Cebrat-Maslowski authors the blog and highlights the efforts of Quad 9 (9.9.9.9) for a more secure African cyberspace. To date, Quad9 has blocked more than 2.1 billion malicious queries, for an average of 100 million blocked queries daily.</span></h1></li></ol><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read more on this initiative on our blog at: </span><a href="https://blog.afrinic.net/cyber-insights-african-perspectives" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-weight: 400; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://blog.afrinic.net/cyber-insights-african-perspectives</span></a></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stay tuned for more blogs at https://blog.afrinic.net</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are keen on sharing your experience and findings relevant to building the Internet in Africa, please reach out to us at blog@afrinic.net</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 24pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AFRINIC Communications.</span></p></body></html>