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

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

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

4. Internet Number Resource Management
Internet Number Resources
Address Management Objectives

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

6. Internet Number Resource Management
Current Stats on Number Resource 6

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

8. 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

9. 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

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

11. Internet Number Resource Management
Easy Steps for New Membership:
Send your request at
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

12. 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

13. 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

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

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

16. 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

17. Recommendations Read and Understand policies
Visit the FAQ/member support documentation pages on our website
Subscribe here and get engaged on mailing lists
Contribute your ideas on the database working
Contribute to the resource policy discussions
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