AFRINIC ActivitiesAGMM CEO Update

Alan Barrett, CEO10th May 2018

Human Resources

• 51 staff from 12 countries at the end of 2017

• 6 new hires in 2017; 1 departure

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5

10

15

20

25

30

35

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Congolese

French

Ivoria

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Kenya

n

Madag

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Malawian

Nigeria

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Rwandan

South Afric

an

Ugandan

Total

Expat

Maurit

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Number of Employees/Nationalities

Number of Employees/Nationalities

Membership Growth

144 New Members in 2017, 1,554 Total Members at end of 2017

New Members per Category, 2017

Membership GrowthNew Members per Country, 2017

Membership Trends 2006-2017

Membership Growth

• 7,492,608 IPv4 addresses (0.45 /8s) allocated in 2017

• 101,258,752 IPv4 addresses (6.08 /8s) allocated from 2004 to 2017

IPv4 Allocations

IPv4 allocations per country in 2017

Egypt:

Egypt:

23.7%

23.7%

Ghana:

Ghana:

14.6%

14.6%

South Africa:

South Africa:

14.2%

14.2%

Tunisia:

Tunisia:

10.1%

10.1%

Morocco:

Morocco:

10.1%

10.1%

Kenya:

Kenya:

8.7%

8.7%Cote Divoire:

Cote Divoire:

3.7%

3.7%Mauritius:

Mauritius:

3.5%

3.5%Cameroon:

Cameroon:

3.4%

3.4%Other:

Other:

2.9%

2.9%Burkina Faso:

Burkina Faso:

2.5%

2.5%Liberia:

Liberia:

0.9%

0.9%Congo:

Congo:

0.8%

0.8%Sudan:

Sudan:

0.7%

0.7%

• The “final /8” was reached on 3 April 2017

• Currently in “Exhaustion Phase 1” as defined in the soft landing policy

• Maximum allocation per request is one /13 (0.5 million addresses)

IPv4 Exhaustion

• 111 IPv6 allocations in 2017, totaling 113 /32s

IPv6 AllocationsIPv6 allocations per country in 2017

South Africa:

South Africa:

37.8%

37.8%

Other:

Other:

14.4%

14.4%

Kenya:

Kenya:

6.3%

6.3%Tanzania:

Tanzania:

3.6%

3.6%Nigeria:

Nigeria:

3.6%

3.6%Senegal:

Senegal:

3.6%

3.6%Mozambique:

Mozambique:

2.7%

2.7%Benin:

Benin:

2.7%

2.7%Ghana:

Ghana:

2.7%

2.7%Togo:

Togo:

2.7%

2.7%Rwanda:

Rwanda:

2.7%

2.7%Cameroon:

Cameroon:

2.7%

2.7%Zimbabwe:

Zimbabwe:

2.7%

2.7%Angola:

Angola:

2.7%

2.7%Burkina Faso:

Burkina Faso:

1.8%

1.8%Mauritius:

Mauritius:

1.8%

1.8%

ASN Assignment

150 ASNs assigned in 2017, 5 of these were “2 byte” ASNs, 1570 ASNs in total since 2004

Tota

l A

SN

s issued

Total ASNs assigned per year

182

182

102

102

66

66

86

86

117

117

114

114

140

140

166

166

135

135

155

155 169

169

152

152

Up to 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

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75

100

125

150

175

200

• Training in French and English• Internet Number Resource Management• IPv6 Planning and Deployment

• 21 workshops• 19 countries• 639 participants

Training

• Attended 13 outreach events• Met 300 members and prospective members• Handled > 30,000 tickets• 95% response within 48 hours• Contacted 100% of members older than 1

year• 80% updated their contact details

Outreach and Customer Service

• AIS’17 and the AFRINIC-26 Meeting• Nairobi, Kenya: 21 May to 2 June 2017• 640 people from 68 countries attended• 11 AFRINIC Fellows

• AFRINIC-27• Lagos, Nigeria: 27 Nov to 1 Dec 2017• 240 people from 34 countries attended• 12 AFRINIC Fellows

• AIS’18 and the AFRINIC-28 Meeting• Dakar, Senegal: 28 Apr to 11 May 2018• 1069 delegates from 82 countries

registered• 12 AFRINIC Fellows• Child Care facilities introduced

Meetings

Informing the community

• 67 blog articles published, 34,410 hits• 25 campaigns (2018)• 6800 likes on twitter (+19%)• 5914 Facebook likes• 55 tweets and posts (2018)• 1168 visits from 645 referrals in 228

locations worldwide (2018)• Hosted status page at status.afrinic.net

Informing the Community

New AFRINIC Website

• New web site produced in English and French.

• 664 pages of dual-language content• Preview of new website is available at

preview.afrinic.net• It will be promoted to www.afrinic.net

soon.

• “IPv4 Resource Transfers within the AFRINIC Region” passed and implemented

• “IPv4 Soft Landing bis” reached last call, but consensus declaration was overturned on appeal

• 7 other policy proposals discussed in 2017

Policy Development

• Improvements to WHOIS authentication• Deprecated old password schemes• Added maintainers for all unprotected objects

• Deployed RPKI “0/0” trust anchor in collaboration with other RIRs

• DNS anycast service expansion• Free service to African ccTLDs• Increased from 3 to 8 locations

Technical Operations

• Africa Latency Study• “Most outstanding paper” at IEEE Africom 2017• Paper accepted to IEEE Infocom 2018

• 2 Measurement workshops• The research team presented at 9 conferences

Research

• 9 grants in 2016/2017 with $250,000 over 2 years• 3 awards in 2017 of $3,000 each

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