<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Hi Fadi,</div><div><br></div><div>We are pleased that we made a good start together. We welcome also the agreement with AfriNIC to expand L-root servers across Africa and are glad to see that the implementation of the Africa strategy has begun. On behalf of the working group we thank you making it possible for ASWG to contribute in this manner. We look forward to our continued engagement </div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely</div><div>Nii<br><br>On Oct 19, 2012, at 16:56, Fadi Chehade <<a href="mailto:fadi.chehade@icann.org">fadi.chehade@icann.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"><div>Dear Friends, </div><div><br></div><div>I am delighted with the start we have made together. You have helped ICANN immensely, and the news below is just one of many results that will follow from your important work.</div><div>I look forward to our continued engagement, working side by side, to deepen and broaden our relationships in Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely, </div><div><br></div><div>Fadi</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> ICANN News Alert <<a href="mailto:communications@icann.org">communications@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, October 19, 2012 11:10 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> ICANN Board of Directors <<a href="mailto:icann-board@icann.org">icann-board@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [icann-board] ICANN News Alert -- Agreement Signed to Expand L-Root Servers Across Africa<br></div><div><br></div><div style="">
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Agreement Signed to Expand L-Root Servers Across Africa</h2>
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<strong><em>18 October 2012…</em></strong> ICANN and the Africa Network Information Center (AFRINIC) have signed an agreement pledging to work collaboratively to identify additional potential locations for the expansion of L-Root anycast instances in Africa.</p>
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The placement of instances of root servers is important to the infrastructure of the Internet in Africa.</p>
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"This agreement comes in at a perfect time here in Toronto when ICANN has unveiled a new initiative to increase presence and participation across our region" said Adiel Akplogan, AFRINIC's Chief Executive Officer. "Besides policy related discussions and participation, Africa needs to strengthen the resiliency of its Internet Infrastructure in order to attract local contents investments."</p>
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"This very important agreement is a further reflection of the hard work of the Africa stakeholders and their spirit of engagement" said Fadi Chehadé, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN. "Our commitment to this sort of cooperative effort is framed by the initiative of the Africa Support Working Group, which is aimed at increasing African participation in ICANN."</p>
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The Africa Support Working Group presented its three year initiative during ICANN's 45th public meeting in Toronto, Canada. The agreement between AfriNIC and ICANN marks the first implementation of the Africa Strategy.</p> <p>
Under the signed agreement, AFRINIC is willing to help ICANN strengthen the resilience of the DNS further by helping to identify potential additional physical locations that host L-Root.</p>
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Using geographically diverse locations for name servers strengthens the global Internet because a dispersed system cannot be taken offline by a problem at any single instance of a given DNS root server.</p>
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"L-Root" refers to one of thirteen computers that anchor the globe's Domain Name Service (DNS). Where computers locate one another on a network by numeric address, humans find it easier to use and remember names (for instance, users typically remember "<a href="http://ICANN.org">ICANN.org</a>" more easily than its IP address, 2620:0:2d0:200::7.) The Domain Name System matches domain names with their correct numeric addresses on the Internet.</p>
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