Participate

Working Groups (WGs) and committees are formed around a particular work item, enabling a group of people to focus on specific tasks. WGs and Committees may exist only as long as it takes to complete the assigned tasks, such as the Nominations Committee, or they may be long-standing, such as the Policy Development Working Group (PDWG).

 

Working Group Description
Policy Development Working Group (PDWG) The PDWG develops and discusses policies relating to the management and distribution of IPv4, IPv6 and ASNs in Africa | More
Database Working Group (DBWG) The DBWG facilitates discussion on AFRINIC's WHOIS Database and related services | More
Measurement Working Group (MWG) The MWG facilitates discussion on Internet Measurement related activities and research in Africa | More
Open Internet Standards Working Group (OISWG) The OISWG promotes open Internet standards in Africa and expanding to other organizations over time | More

 

Committees Description
Governance Committee The Governance Committee's role is to advise the AFRINIC Board, AFRINIC Membership, and the community, on matters of corporate governance | More
Nomination Committee The Nomination Committeescreens and proposes suitable candidates for available AFRINIC Board of Director positions | More

Election Committee

The Election Committee is responsible for handling pre-election processes for AFRINIC electionsMore
The Number Resource Organization Numbers Council and the Address Supporting Organization Address Council (NRO NC - ASO AC) The NRO NC performs the function of the ASO AC, which reviews and develop recommendations on global IP address policy and advises the ICANN Board | More
The IANA Services Number Review Committee The IANA Services Number Review Committee advises and assists the NRO Executive Council in its periodic review of the service level of the IANA Numbering Services | More
AFRINIC Board Committees The AFRINIC Board creates various committees to focus the scope of its work | More
Policy Development Appeal Committee The AFRINIC Policy Development Appeal Committee, or the Appeal Committee, is a committee appointed by the AFRINIC Board, intended to adjudicate on appeals in terms of the Conflict Resolution section of the AFRINIC Policy Development Process (PDP) | More
Inactive Committees Inactive committee archive | More

 

1) Support Email

AFRINIC is committed to providing assistance to all matters related to its services, such as membership and IP address enquiries. Consequently, AFRINIC has different emails for each request that requires particular expertise ensuring no query goes unnoticed. AFRINIC emails are listed below and we strive to create a sound support experience for all correspondents.

 

You may also find our FAQs helpful.

  

 ServiceEmail Contact 
Hostmaster/IP Resources hostmaster [at] afrinic dot net
Billing billing [at] afrinic dot net
Account Info & Services service-support [at] afrinic dot net
Routing Registry irr[at]afrinic.net
DB-help afrinic-dbm [at] afrinic dot net
Prospective Members new-member[at] afrinic dot net
Training training [at] afrinic dot net
Outage incidents[at]afrinic.net
AFRINIC  Fellowship fellowship [at] afrinic.net
AFRINIC  Fellowship Alumni fellowship-alumni [at] afrinic.net
General contact [at] afrinic dot net
Escalation admin-escalate[at]afrinic.net
RPKI rpki-help[at]afrinic.net
DNS and DNSSEC dns-masters[at]afrinic.net 
Data Protection dpc[at]afrinic.net

 

2) Mailing List

AFRINIC hosts public mailing list forums to facilitate discussion on a range of topics related to Internet number resources management, network engineering, and Internet governance. Most of these mailing lists are open to anybody who has an interest in the activities of AFRINIC working groups and provide space for people to share information for the benefit of the entire community.

While AFRINIC encourages using these lists for a healthy, relevant debate and information sharing, we also advise all to ensure that the AFRINIC Community Code of Conduct is respected.

You may consult the AFRINIC Privacy Policy to learn more on how AFRINIC is committed to protecting your privacy, confidentiality and security of the data that you provide us when using our website, contacting our office, or interacting with us.

Use the email contact below or click on a link to subscribe, unsubscribe, or change the preferences on your subscription. 

 

2.1) How to subscribe to the mailing list?

There are two ways:

  1. Subscribe and fill in the online form which can be obtained by clicking the different lists below.
  2. By email: you can send a request to list_name-request@afrinic.net, with the word subscribe in the subject field 

  

Note that only subscribers can post messages. You can check the entire list here

 

 

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