AFRINIC fournit des services à ses membres, à savoir des organisations (principalement des fournisseurs de services Internet et des utilisateurs finaux) au sein de sa région géographique qui couvre le continent africain et l'océan Indien. La région de service AFRINIC est divisée en six sous-régions à savoir l'Afrique du Nord, l'Afrique de l'Ouest, l'Afrique centrale, l'Afrique australe, l'Afrique de l'Est et l'océan Indien.

AFRINIC Membership

AFRINIC a trois types d'adhésion:

1. Membre ressource: A legal entity or person that meets the requirements for Internet number resources allocations and/or assignment and who signs the Registration Service Agreement. Resource Members are generally Local Internet Registry (LIR) (*) and End-Users (EU) (**)
   • (*) Local Internet Registry (LIR): A Local Internet Registry (LIR) is an Internet Registry (IR) that receives allocations from AFRINIC and primarily sub-allocates or assigns address space to their customers. LIRs are generally ISPs.
   • (**) End User (EU): Toute entité, entreprise ou particulier qui reçoit des services (affectations de ressources numériques) directement d'AFRINIC pour une utilisation exclusive sur sa propre infrastructure de services.
2. Membre associé: Any individual person, corporate body of the public sector including governmental, and intergovernmental organisations, non-governmental organisations as well as those of private sector entities who do not use Assigned Number resource under the Registration Service Agreement (RSA) but who have manifested a substantial interest in the number resources management as well as in the mission of AFRINIC to become its member.
3. Membre enregistré: Any Director upon assumption of office and who is a member within the meaning of the Companies Act 2001 of Mauritius, as amended from time to time.

La carte suivante vous donne un aperçu de la répartition des membres AFRINIC