AFRINIC's services to Universities/RENs in AFRICA Madhvi GOKOOL Registration Services Manager UbuntuConnect 2018 | Nov 2018

SMART Universities Foundation Scalable, Secure and Resilient Networks Internet Connectivity Bandwidth BGP Secure Routing Measurements Data , Internet Connectivity and Reachability

Research and Education Networks Role of RENs Interconnect University Networks Act as ISPs Internet Connectivity Negotiate Bandwidth agreements/Bulk purchase National and Regional

Internet Number Resource Management Internet Number Resources Address Management Objectives

Internet Number Resource Management Resource Members 1659 members holding Internet Number Resources IPv4 100 Million IPv4 addresses issued since 2005

Internet Number Resource Management Current Stats on Number Resource 6

Internet Number Resource Management IPv6: Members with IPv6: 729 AFRINIC pool consists of 2c00::/12 and 2001:4200::/23 ~ 9222 /32’s issued ~ 1019567 /32s Available Pool can be replenished ASN: Number of Members holding ASNs : 1446 1652 ASN’s allocated to members 481 ASN’s Available

Internet Number Resource Management IPv4 Depletion: On 2nd Apr 2017: AFRINIC Entered Phase 1 of Soft- landing (Equivalent of a /8) Prefix size that can be issued /24 to /13 Needs 8 months Eligibility for Additional resources 90 % usage of all resources held

Internet Number Resource Management As at 24th September 2018: ≈ 9.2 Million /32 IPv4 Allocated/Assigned since AFRINIC hit Phase 1 Approx. 5.5 Million /32 IPv4 Available until Phase 2 (IPv4 /11) Phase 2 Prefix size that can be issued /24 to /22 Needs 8 months Eligibility for Additional resources 90 % usage of all resources held We estimate that AFRINIC could hit phase 2 of Soft-landing ~ May 2019

Education - Membership Statistics RESOURCE MEMBERS 99 Members holding a mix of ASNs, IPv4 & IPv6 addresses Gap in membership and resources attribution for Education Sector

Internet Number Resource Management Easy Steps for New Membership: Send your request at https://nmrp.afrinic.net Provide: Organisation and points of contact details Certificate of incorporation (incorporation within AFRINIC service region) Detailed IP addressing plan Service regulators license(where applicable) Contract with upstream ISP Sign RSA Other available documentation justifying your IP needs May be required to provide evidence of infrastructure in the region

Internet Number Resource Management Requirements for Additional IPv4 space: Must be compliant with the contractual obligations. - Must be in good financial standing (All pending fees are paid) - Registration Service Agreement on file - Updated contact details Must have used at least 90% of current IPv4 allocation/assignment Provide Details on how the current IPs allocation/assignment are being used Provide a detailed IP addressing plan showing the needs for next 8 months May require a remote session to validate the usage of current resources

IPv6 IoT devices Require IP address Insufficient IPv4 addresses IPv6 provides enough public IP addresses Paradigm shift Students are not shackled to running IPv4 networks. They easily grasp concepts & fundamentals of IPv6 Innovation Designing and Testing of new technologies Improving University experience for students

Services Core Registry Services Internet Routing Registry DNSSEC RPKI Capacity Building -IPv6 training IPv6 labs

Additional benefits 50% discount on allocation/assignment/annual membership fees Access to myafrinic Member Portal

Policy Development Process The set of steps by which the Internet community, proposes, deliberates and adopts the policies that guide the use of number resources in the AFRINIC service region. This audience is part of AFRINIC Internet community Minimal engagement in policy discussion so far It is important to get engaged in the policy development process The policies affect all network operators Very important to read and understand the policies before requesting IP resources and related services Subscribe to the resource policy discussion mailing list (rpd@afrinic.net)

Recommendations Read and Understand policies Visit the FAQ/member support documentation pages on our website Subscribe here https://lists.afrinic.net/ and get engaged on mailing lists Contribute your ideas on the database working group(dbwg@afrinic.net) Contribute to the resource policy discussions Contact: hostmaster@afrinic.net irr@afrinic.net