The RIPE NCC Internet Routing Registry (IRR) will soon no longer support the creation of route(6) and aut-num objects that refer to out-of-region resources (resources that are not allocated to the RIPE region by IANA ) effective September 2018.
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AFRINIC is participating in a panel discussion on the evolution of Internet Governance in Africa during the celebration of 20 years of Internet Governance in Africa, in Benin Cotonou. The anniversary will be marked by a day-long event themed “An Efficient Governance of Internet in the Service of Africa Development.
Read more: Celebrating 20 Years of Internet Governance in Benin Cotonou
FIRE Awards 2018 invites applicants coming from different countries in Africa to submit their project proposals. Three proposals will be selected and each selected project will receive a cash prize of $3000. The call for proposals will be open until 27 July 2018.
Read more: FIRE Awards 2018 Call for Project Proposals is Open
We're celebrating the sixth anniversary of World IPv6 Launch today!
In an interconnected world of devices, the Internet of things will enable us to discover that opportunities are limitless and IPv6 is the only foreseeable solution to this future. IPv4 resources globally and in the AFRINIC region are quickly dwindling and since we cannot predict how long our supplies will last, the message is now clear for Africa: IPv6 deployment cannot wait. AFRINIC has allocated over 9200 IPv6 prefixes since its inception, about 45% of AFRINIC members have some IPv6 space and about 20% of networks (ASes) in Africa are announcing an IPv6 prefix. If you have not deployed IPv6 on your networks, we encourage you to deploy IPv6 now.
This post is a summary of two papers co-authored by Amreesh Phokeer and Josiah Chavula of the Research and Innovation Department and were presented at:
- IEEE Africon 2017, Cape Town, South Africa - Won the Most Outstanding Paper Award
- IEEE Infocom 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii - Won the Best-in-Session Presentation Award
We often reduce Africa to a single country or economy but we tend to forget that it is made up of 54 different nations, more than in any other continent of the world. Africa is therefore a complex set of countries having different levels of connectivity, Internet penetration and infrastructure. The good news is that in the recent years, there have been massive investment in both undersea and terrestrial fibre optical cables, and as a result, Africa is one of fastest growing continent in terms of international internet bandwidth - growing at a compound annual rate of 44 percent from 2013 and 2017.
