AfriNIC-2 Meeting Minutes
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AfriNIC held its second public policy and member meeting from 26-27th April 2005 at
Telecomunicacoes de Mocambique (TDM) Conference and Training Centre, Maputo -
Mozambique . More than 100 participants from around the world attended the meeting.
They included AfriNIC members and Board of Directors, representatives from ICANN,
LACNIC, APNIC, RIPE NCC, NSRC, ARIN, ISOC, AfNOG, officials from governments and
African Network Operators at large.

This meeting followed the official recognition of AfriNIC (by the ICANN) as the fifth Regional
Internet Registry serving Africa and the Indian Ocean regions two weeks before - a momentous
event that would change the future of the internet on the African continent.

The meeting started on 26/4/2005 Tuesday morning at 09:30 with a speech from the Minister
of Telecommunications in Mozambique , preceded by a word of welcome delivered by the
chairman of the AfriNIC Board of Directors, Mr. Pierre Dandjinou.

All presentations can be found on the AfriNIC-2 meeting agenda web-page:

http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/afrinic-2/agenda.htm

Highlights:
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Major highlights of the AfriNIC-2 meeting included:

o AfriNIC signing an MoU to become a full member of the NRO,
o Official transfer of documents from RIPE NCC, ARIN and APNIC to AfriNIC,
o Update/Report from AfriNIC,
o Updates from the NRO and the other RIRs,
o Election of representatives to the NRO NC (Number Resource Organisation
   Number Council (who also become ASO AC members),
o Discussion on some proposed policies from the Policy Working Group,
o Election to fill vacant seats at the AfriNIC Board of Directors,
o Adoption of 2005 fee schedule.
o Adoption of 2005 Budget

DAY-1: 26/04/2005
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The AfriNIC Board Chair, Mr. Pierre Dandjinou, welcomed everybody to the second AfriNIC
public policy meeting, and invited the Mozambique Minister of Telecommunications, HE Prof.
Dr. Venancio Massingue to inaugurate the official opening of the meeting. The minister was
grateful to his fellow internet pioneers in Africa (like Dr. Nii Quaynor and Alan Barett), the
Chairman of the AfriNIC Board, Mr. Pierre Dandjinou, the AfriNIC CEO, Mr. Adiel Akplogan and
other people for having worked hard to make AfriNIC a reality for Africa .

AfriNIC becomes a member of the NRO:
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At this meeting, AfriNIC became an official member of the NRO by signing a joinder to the NRO
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). AfriNIC became a welcomed and celebrated addition to
the NRO, which now includes all five RIRs (ARIN, RIPE NCC, LACNIC, APNIC and the new AfriNIC).

The AfriNIC CEO, Mr. Adiel Akplogan, presented gifts to various members of the other Regional
Internet Registries who dedicated time and resources during the transition time to make AfriNIC
a success. A beautiful painting was also received from LACNIC to AfriNIC. A special gift was
presented to Richard Jimmerson from ARIN, for his valuable efforts of inter-RIR co-ordination
during AfriNIC's set up and transition.

Various items for the day:
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Presentations items for the rest of the day included updates from ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC
and LACNIC (given by the respective CEOs all present in Maputo), the ASO and NRO reports
(given by one of the AfriNIC Region ASO Observers, Mr. Alain P. Aina), talks about implementation
of IPv6 and reverse delegation, a tutorial about how to request IP resources in the AfriNIC region
and a presentation from the AfriNIC Board Chairman about the relationship between AfriNIC and
the international internet community.

A particularly interesting presentation was from Jordi Palet Martinez from the European Ipv6
Task Force, also co-Chair of the "IPv6 Forum, Education and Promotion Working Group". The
presentation was: "IPv6 is an innovation opportunity". He gave a live demonstration of Ipv6
at work - remote-controlling various devices at his home from Africa , and signaling/monitoring
his dogs at home :-) Jordi's presentation can be found online.

Elections of representatives to the NRO - Number Council (NC)
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Under the terms of the MoU signed between the ICANN and the RIRs in October 2004, the
NRO Number Council now performs the role of the Address Supporting Organization - Address
Council (ASO AC). Members of the NRO NC then also become the ASO AC members. According
to the NRO MoU, the NC must be composed of two members selected by the regional policy
forum of each of the RIRs and one must be appointed by the board of each RIR.

Since AfriNIC is now a fully accredited Regional Internet Registry, three representatives had to
be elected at the AfriNIC-2 meeting according to the election process online at:

http://www.afrinic.net/nro/afnro-elp200502.htm

These representatives will represent the AfriNIC region internet community at the NRO Number
Council (NC). Various nominations were received and are available online at:

http://www.afrinic.net/nro/nominees.htm

An election was held in the afternoon of 26/04/2005. Eligible voters were people residing and
working in the AfriNIC service region. The vote count gave:

Sylvia Geha Kezengwa: 27 votes

Yaovi Atohoun: 16 votes

Jean Robert Hountomey: 33 votes

Ali Drissa Badiel: 23 votes

Wycliffe Ochieng: 5 votes

Out of the 5 nominees, the following were declared elected:

- Jean Robert Hountomey 04/2005 - 12/2008

- Sylvia Geha Kezengwa 04/2005 - 12/2007

Alan Barrett was appointed by the AfriNIC board to serve for a 1 year mandate
(04/2005-12/2006)

The day was wound-up with a glamorous social event at Hotel Cardosos in the centre
of Maputo .

DAY-2: 27/04/2005
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The second day was dedicated to policy discussions and the member Annual General
Meeting (AGM). A formal document transfer from ARIN, RIPE NCC and APNIC to AfriNIC
was also conducted.

Key issues of the day:

- Official transfer of member documents/data from other RIRs to AfriNIC.

- IPv6 global allocation policy: The NRO perspective

- discussion of various policy documents that were proposed on the policy working group,

- presentation and adoption of the 2005 budget,

- presentation and adoption of amendments to the fee schedule,

- renewal of the vacant seats in the AfriNIC board,

- presentation of current stats from AfriNIC RS department,

- how AfriNIC/AfNOG should co-operate, and

- the possibility of setting up an IPv6 task force in our community.

Other various presentations were made, including the Policy Development Process in the
AfriNIC service region and the NRO perspective about the IPv6 global allocation policy.

Official transfer of authority from ARIN/RIPE NCC/APNIC to AfriNIC
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On the morning of 27/4/2005 at AfriNIC-2, the RIRs - APNIC, ARIN, and the RIPE NCC
signed letters transferring to AfriNIC formal authority for the parts of the region they had
previously served, including all registration and accounting documentation and DNS
administration. This now completed the transfer of all custodial and registry processes for
the entire AfriNIC service region.

IPv6 global allocation policy: The NRO perspective
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This was presented by Ray Plzak, President and CEO of ARIN (The American Registry for
Internet Numbers). ARIN is the Regional Internet Registry serving North America ( Canada
and the USA ). This is a cordinated proposal from the 5 RIRs (ARIN, RIPE NCC, APNIC,
LACNIC and AfriNIC), under the umbrella of the NRO, to IANA (The Internet Assigned
Numbers' Authority). It addresses the procedure that IANA should consider while making IPv6
allocations to the RIRs. The policy proposal suggests a minimum allocation of /12 from IANA
to RIR if 50% or greater of the current v6 allocation has been utilised, or the available ipv6
space cannot cater for the RIR's 9 (nine) month requirements. The policy also suggests that
IANA should allocate a /12 of IPv6 to a new RIR irrespective of utilisation or any space
transferred from other RIRs.

This presentation is available online

Policy Proposals:
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Some new policies and a few amendments to current policy were proposed 2 weeks before
the AfriNIC-2 meeting. According to the current AfriNIC policy development process, at least
30 days of discussion are needed on the policy working group mailing list prior to face-to-face
discussion and consequent consensus at the public policy meeting. These policies are:

Policy for IPv4 End-Users:

Minimum Assignment: /24

Criteria: - show existing utilisation of /25 from upstream

- Or, justify immediate need of 50% of total requested.

Additional space:

- 25% immediate utilisation,and

- 50% utilisation in 1 year.

IXPs, Root Server or ccTLD Operators:

- Assignment no greater than /24.

- At least 2 peer ISPs in an IXP

Temporary IP assignemnts in the AfriNIC region

- The activity requiring temporary IP resources should be publicly documented and
   available, preferably on a website.

- The IP resources must be returned to AfriNIC after the experiment.

- Resources are assigned on a lease basis for a period of one month.

- The assignment can be renewed after providing the necessary information .

- The size of the assigned IP resource will be determined from the plan submitted
   by the requesting entity.

Change in Policy for AS Number Assignments:

Major change:

- An entity requesting an AS number from AfriNIC must be an AfriNIC member
  in good standing.

- LIRs cannot assign AS numbers to other organisations, other than their own
  network infrastructure.

To contribute to the discussions about these proposals, please subscribe to the policy working
group mailing list, by sending an email to policy-wg-request@afrinic.net with the subject
SUBSCRIBE. Archives can also be found at http://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/policy-wg

Summary of discussion about the above policy proposals:
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o The AS number proposal did not get much discussion.

o Temporary Assignments and Experiments:

- Some concerns about a 1 month return period being too short.

- One member mentioned that some temporary allocations tend to get 'tainted' by
  some carriers (due to frequent withdrawing and injecting of the prefix into the global
  routing table) - though others said this is never the case.

- A need for these allocations to come from a single large reserved block.

- Suggestion that AfriNIC asks the requestor for their routing decisions/plans, and base
  the approval from that.

- Issues about the costs involved were also raised - whether this is prefix-size based
   or a general similar fee irrespective of allocation size.

o IPv4 End-User Assignments:

- Concerns about the /24 minimum not being a good thing given the rapid growth of
  the routing table.

- Several people were not concerned about the routing table growth, as such prefixes
  are usually not numerous.

- Questions about what happens to end-user PI requests between now and the next
  member meeting, when the policy will be discussed and approved/rejected by the members.

- The AfriNIC CEO advised that AfriNIC will enforce the policy from the respective former RIR
of the member, until this policy is adopted by AfriNIC.

During the policy discussions, some members raised the issue about the need for a policy
to recover unused resources in the AfriNIC region. This issue will be addressed by the policy
working group.

Co-operation between AfriNIC and AfNOG:
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AfNOG (The African Network Operators Group) has been conducting workshops and meetings
once a year for 5 years now. It is also not unusual that most people attending the AfNOG
workshops and meetings are the same people attending the AfriNIC meetings - since they
usually represent network operators, who are usually AfriNIC members. Discussions were
held to find a suitable way of having AfNOG and AfriNIC work together at these meetings.
Experiences from the NANOG/ARIN and APRICOT/APNIC relationship were shared with the
meeting. No major decisions were taken at the meeting, but it was advised that an MoU be
signed between AfriNIC and AfNOG to partake joint organisation of the meetings, infrastructure,
connectivity setup and other logistical requirements.

Possibility of setting up an IPv6 task force in our community
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A brief discussion was held about the possibility of setting up an IPv6 Task Force in the African
community. Many ideas were shared during this time. The major point of discussion was that a
task-force may have some legal and procedural/formal implications that may not work well for
the African community at this time. It was later decided that mailing lists be setup instead, and
whoever is interested can join the forum. These mailing lists will be hosted at AfriNIC. The
naming has not yet been decided - more about this will follow on the AfriNIC-discuss mailing list.

Budget for 2006/2007:
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AfriNIC's budget for the year 2006/2007 was presented to and consequently adopted by the
members during the AGM. The voted budget has 491,000 USD as income, 360,908 as OPEX
and 66400 of CAPEX.

Fees Schedule:
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Some amendments were made by the AfriNIC Board of Directors to the fees schedule as follows:

o Decrease the membership-only (associate member (without any allocated resources)
fee from 400 USD to 100 USD

o Increase in fees for Medium, Large and Extra Large membership categories as follows:

• Medium becomes 6,500 USD from 5,000 USD
• Large becomes 13,000 USD from 7,000 USD
• Extra Large becomes 20,000 USD from 15,000 USD

The AGM unanimously approved these figures.

Board Election - Renewal of Seats 5 and 6:
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Seats 5 and 6 (for the Central Africa and Indian Ocean Region respectively) had
fallen vacant. For each seat, a primary and alternate member is selected according to
the AfriNIC by-laws. The members were therefore required to elect persons to fill these
seats. An election was conducted which ended as follows:

Central (Seat 5):

Didier Kasole CD Primary
Gaetan Bouraga GA Alternate

Indian Ocean (Seat 6):

Viv Padayatchy MU Primary
Kenny Yiptong MU Alternate

Congratulations, especially to Gaetan Bouraga, who was the only new person on board !

LIR TRAINING
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AfriNIC conducted training sessions for members/LIRs and other interested parties. The
major objective was to train ISP staff on how to interact with the AfriNIC whois database,
and how to request internet resources from AfriNIC. Two sessions - English and French,
were held at TDM, on Saturday 23rd April 2005 for the whole day. Each session had about
25 people. The next training event will be held in South Africa, and the venue and date
will be confirmed later. Details are available on the AfriNIC training website:

http://www.afrinic.net/training/index.htm

AFRINIC-3
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The third AfriNIC public policy meeting will be held in Cairo, Egypt from 22nd-24th
November 2005. Registration details and agenda will be online soon.

END OF MEETING.
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The meeting was closed at 14:30 by the AfriNIC Board Chair and the CEO.

Links to all presentations at AfriNIC-II:
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All presentations given at AfriNIC-II are available below:

DAY-1:
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AfriNIC Update - Adiel Akplogan, CEO - AfriNIC

APNIC Update - Paul Wilson, Managing Director

RIPE NCC Update - Axel Pawlik, Managing Director

LACNIC Update - Raul Echebberria, CEO

ARIN Update - Ray Palzak, President and CEO

ASO Report - Alain Patrick AINA, ASO AC representative, AfriNIC region.

NRO Report - Adiel Akplogan, CEO AfriNIC

IPv6 is an innovation opportunity - Jordi Palet Martinez, CEO, Consulintel

Reverse DNS why and how? - Alain Aina, CEO, TRS-Tech

IP resource request 101 - Ernest Byaruhanga, Registration Services Manager, AfriNIC

AfriNIC in the International community - Pierre Dandjinou, Board Chairman, AfriNIC

DAY-2:
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Registration Service Report - Ernest Byaruhanga, Registration Services Manager, AfriNIC

Financial and Administrative Service Report - Harish Gowrisunkur, CFO, AfriNIC

IPv6 global allocation policy: The NRO perspective - Ray Plzak, President & CEO, ARIN

Policy Proposals fron the Policy WG - Adiel Akplogan, CEO, AfriNIC

THANKS AND GRATITUDE:
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AfriNIC would like to express its full gratitude to:

o HE Prof. Dr. Venancio Massingue
o MICTI
o TV CABO Mozambique
o AfNOG secretariat
o ISOC
o Afilias
o NSRC

For their contribution and support to make this meeting a success.
See you all at AfriNIC-III in Cairo!!