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AFRINEWS | 2018 Q3 July • July - September 2018 A QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OFAFRI THE AFRICAN NETWORKNEWS INFORMATION CENTRE Tunisia to host AFRINIC-29 Public Policy Meeting FRINIC is holding the 29th knowledge and discuss on relevant edition of its meetings ICT topics. Participants will learn A from 26th-30th November more about the strategies driving IPv6 deployment throughout the continent. 2018 in Hammamet, Tunisia. Technical sessions will show in depth AFRINIC-29 is unique forum how Africa is performing in Internet for the intersection of Internet infrastructure growth while ensuring development and advocacy low cost, resilient and secure Internet providing an opportunity to access as well as keeping content strengthen policies and promote and traffic local. AFRINIC-29 will hold technical discussions, ensuring plenary sessions and comprehen- an evidence-based response to sive training workshops organised by AFRINIC, on managing Internet Internet issues in Africa. Number resources and the WHOIS, AFRINIC-29 will serve as an occasion and AFRINIC’s signature IPv6 Deploya- to intensify commitments from govern- thons. Open sessions on the impor- ments, the private sector, civil society tance of keeping the Internet afford- and academia, amongst others toward able and always on are sessions to the growth of Internet in Africa. The watch out for. Part of the confer- event will consist of a comprehensive ence will enhance knowledge on fellowship programme that ensures cyber crime, DDoSs and shutdowns, small organisations are well represent- moreover very importantly, harnessing ed at the gathering. the power of the Internet to help end poverty and ensure prosperity in the The Meeting will give participants the region. opportunity to learn from peers, share Published by AFRINIC LTD. 11th floor, Standard Chartered Tower. 19,Cybercity Ebène, MAURITIUS. Phone: + 230 403 51 00 Fax: +230 466 67 58 Names, Numbers and Standards Demystified A panel discussion at the International Telecommunication Union Annual Regional Human Capacity Building Workshop in Abuja, Nigeria. he International Among the panellists was AFRINIC’s Telecommunication Union CEO, Mr. Alan Barrett who urged all T Annual Regional Human stakeholders to deploy IPv6 empha- sising Africa’s lagging behind the rest Capacity Building Workshop of the world in IPv6 deployment. Mr. took place in Abuja Nigeria. The Barrett explained the ecosystem of event themed, “Strengthening the number protocols, highlighting the Capacities in Internet Governance mechanisms of their distribution multi- in Africa”, addressed pressing stakeholder and policy development issues regarding Internet processes. He also highlighted the governance at a regional level. underlying technological challenges in The workshop also addressed Africa such as Internet performance, keeping Internet traffic and content the challenges associated with within the African region. the growth of the internet, and capacity development issues in ‘’With approximately 100 million IPv4 the African region. addresses for a population of 1.2 billion, Africa’s IPv4 stock is almost Annual Regional This is the second edition in a exhausted. IPv6 represents the future series of regional internet govern- of the Internet ‘’ underscored Mr. Human Capacity Building ance capacity development events Barrett. workshop organised by the ITU Telecommuni- cation Development Bureau in part- Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Abuja, Nigeria. nership with DiploFoundation and Chairman, Nigerian Communications APC’s African School on Internet Commission, in the opening address Governance, and hosted by the Digital called on stakeholders in the telecom- Bridge Institute (DBI) of Nigeria -the munication sector to put in place right training arm of the Nigerian Communi- polices to fast track digital growth in cations Commission (NCC ). Africa. 2 | AFRINIC - AFRINEWS – JULY - OCTOBER 2018 Insight into Registration and Membership Statistics 2018 he allocation statistics annual target of 160. for our membership and 42% of our new membership has T Internet number resources come from South Africa. Our global membership portfolio states a are trending upwards as we gear total of 1634 members with 28% through the last quarter of this membership from South Africa, season. followed by Nigeria 10% and Kenya 6%. SUMMIT’19 Since inception AFRINIC has allocated KAMPALA N more than 112 million IPv4 address- AFRINIC’s service satisfaction survey 9 2 NE 29 es and issued a total of 9,239 /32s revealed some promising statistics IPv6 prefixes with the impending IPv4 for our Customer Services Depart- exhaustion we are left with 7.3 million ment. 71 % of the service request- IPv4 addresses. AFRINIC also issued a ers are satisfied with our speed of total of 1709 ASNs since inception. response while 74% appreciated our internetsummit.africa professionalism. Furthermore 66% AFRINIC allocated 3.4 million /48 IPv6 of the same respondents find our addresses to its members since the staff accurate and 69% of them like beginning of the year additionally to our friendliness and 67% assess us over 5.9 million IPv4 addresses and caring and attentive. 127 ASNs. Interestingly this is lower than last year for the same period AFRINIC’s member contact accuracy that was around 7 million. This trend levels up to 91%, as of end of however was expected considering September, with correct admin that the soft landing policy is in force. contact updated for 1489 members out of 1634. AFRINIC welcomed 123 new members and is now slowing approaching its The WIDER Platform Explained IDER short for World WIDER consists of many interest- InternetData ExploreR ing features and uses datasets from W is a collaborative data- APNIC Labs for IPv6 penetration and market share, in addition to country driven web portal that provides population data from the World Bank information for analysing and AS classification data from CAIDA data such as Internet access, – Center for Applied Internet Data and infrastructure, market share and Analysis. performance. WIDER intends to become a data repository of various open internet datasets from various data meas- urement platforms. WIDER is also bestowed with the capacity to visual- ize data from bespoke measurements campaign coming from the academic community displaying longitudinal graphs showing trends of IPv6 uptake, and within the context of IPv4 deple- tion, decreases in allocation of IPv4 address blocks. AFRINIC was invited to present the online platform at AfPIF 2018. WIDER is a joint project by AFRINIC, ISOC-ZA wider.isoc.org.za and VANILLA. AfPIF 2018 took place in Cape Town South Africa. 3 | AFRINIC - AFRINEWS – JULY - OCTOBER 2018 AFRINIC Releases New Version of Internet Routing Registry Keesun Fokeerah from AFRINIC’s Registration Services presented an update on AFRINIC’s Internet Registry at AFRINIC-26 in Nairobi Kenya. FRINIC has released a in the associated inetnum or inet6num new version of its Routing object. The address holder is responsi- A Registry Service. This new ble for maintaining the accuracy of the route(6) objects in the AFRINIC IRR. version has removed the need for These changes have been reflected in the ASN holder to authorise route the updated version of the AFRINIC Migrate or route6 objects. Internet Routing Registry Guide. to http://bit.ly/irr-guide Previously, route and route6 objects AFRINIC had to be authorised by both the From September 2018, the RIPE holder of the IPv4 or IPv6 address NCC database no longer supports IRR space, and the holder of the ASN. the creation of route(6) and aut-num In the case that the ASN and the objects that refer to out-of-region address space were held by differ- resources. AFRINIC membership who ent organisations, then there was a were using this RIPE NCC service has process for semi-authorised objects been requested to move their route to be held for seven days pending objects in the AFRINIC IRR. complete authorisation. In the case that the ASN was not issued by Over 60 members have adopted the AFRINIC, then HostMaster staff had to AFRINIC IRR in the period August- authorise the route or route6 objects. September and 32% of the AFRINIC CHANGES membership is currently using the After discussion in AFRINIC’s database AFRINIC IRR. AHEAD working group http://bit.ly/dbwg-list, and checking AFRINIC encourages its members to the practices of other Internet Routing continue to move their route objects Registry services, AFRINIC has its IRR and give their feedback on RIPE NCC IRR decided to remove the need for the the service via the survey link they ASN holder to authorise any route or received upon resolution of their ticket. ROUTE route6 objects in the AFRINIC IRR. The route or route6 objects still need The new version of Routing Registry to be authorised by the address space Service is available here: holder, using the password associated 6 http://bit.ly/afrinic-irr with the mnt-routes or mnt-lower fields OBJECTS 4 | AFRINIC - AFRINEWS – JULY - OCTOBER 2018 Checks at AFRINIC reveal 40,000 Domain objects with Lame Delegation Record Delegates following Policy session during AFRINIC-27 in Lagos round 40,000 domain 21 March 2018. gations are detected, allowing them to objects have been The policy ensures that lame delega- act upon them. A identified with lame tions appearing in the reverse DNS are AFRINIC has published a manual for acted upon by equipping the WHOIS delegation record in the AFRINIC members to act on the lame delega- with automatic checks, notifications to database. However current tions. At the end of the 30-day period, admin-c, tech-c and zone-c contacts remaining lame delegations are auto- record in October shows the of domain objects and removal of lame matically removed from the WHOIS. number has slumped to 25,000 delegations after 30 days. Read the Manual here: after checks have been carried On day 1 of every month, a fresh http://bit.ly/lame-delegation out and members notified. This scan of WHOIS domain objects is follows the implementation of performed and checks made for These features have been deployed in the “Lame Delegations in the lame delegations.
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