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ipv4 phase2AFRINIC's available IPv4 resource pool is gradually decreasing. AFRINIC has been delegating IPv4 resources to its Resource Members who have demonstrated needs according to IPv4 Exhaustion Phase 1 of the soft landing policy. As we approach Phase 2 of the Exhaustion phase, we would like to seize this opportunity to keep our membership aware of the coming changes and implications.

AFRINIC's available inventory of IPv4 space is updated daily and is summarised at https://afrinic.net/stats/ipv4-pool. Here is an update on the implementation of the IPv4 Soft Landing policy as per Section 5.4 of the Consolidated Policy Manual.  

 

 

Soft Landing Policy

In 2011,  "IPv4 Soft Landing" policy to deal with the exhaustion of IPv4 address space was proposed, discussed and reached agreed.  The policy is currently described in Section 5.4 of the Consolidated Policy Manual - see https://afrinic.net/policy/manual#Soft-Landing.  (It was earlier known under the identifier "AFPUB-2010-v4-005").

The soft landing policy defines the phases for the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space: the "Current Phase", "Exhaustion Phase 1", and "Exhaustion Phase 2".  These phases begin and end according to criteria defined in the policy. These criteria are based on the amount of address space remaining in AFRINIC's IPv4 pool.

 

Final /8

The following definition of the "Final /8" appears in section 5.4.1 of the CPM:

The Final /8 block of IPv4 address space, or "Final /8", is the /8 block of IPv4 address space that has been allocated by the IANA to AFRINIC in terms of section 2.2 C of the Global Policy for the Allocation of the Remaining IPv4 Address Space at the time of exhaustion of the IANA pool of IPv4 address space. Based on that definition, the "Final /8" is the IPv4 address block 102.0.0.0/8, which was allocated by the IANA to AFRINIC on 3 February 2011 (NRO news article) (AFRINIC news article).

 

Criteria for the Start of Exhaustion Phase 2

Section 5.4.3.1 of the CPM specifies the following criteria for the end of Phase 1 and the start of Exhaustion Phase 2:

"Allocations and assignments will be made from the Final /8 or from any other IPv4 address space available to AFRINIC until no more than a /11 of non-reserved space is available in the Final /8. At this point, the Exhaustion Phase 2 will begin. For the avoidance of doubt, all applications that are still under evaluation at this point will be evaluated as per the new clause."

AFRINIC will implement the specified criteria as follows.

  • Exhaustion Phase 1 ends and Exhaustion Phase 2 begins when AFRINIC has no more than one /11 of non-reserved IPv4 space available in the final /8.  (CPM section 5.4.3.1.) The policy does not specify whether the /11 must be contiguous, or may be made up of multiple smaller blocks adding up to the same amount of space.
  • AFRINIC's interpretation is that the /11 may be made up of multiple smaller blocks.  Accordingly, Exhaustion Phase 2 will begin when the available non-reserved space in the final /8 is no more than 2,097,152 IP addresses (the equivalent of a /11), regardless of how the available addresses are arranged in contiguous or discontiguous blocks.  Nevertheless, AFRINIC will endeavour to keep a contiguous /11 set aside for as long as reasonably feasible.

 

Changes in Exhaustion Phase 2

When Exhaustion Phase 2 begins, most of the clauses from Exhaustion Phase 1 continue to apply, but the following changes will take effect:

  1. Minimum IPv4 Allocation or Assignment shall be /24. (CPM section 5.4.3.2.)
  2. Maximum IPv4 Allocation or Assignment shall be /22. (CPM section 5.4.3.2.)

The following considerations from Exhaustion Phase 1 will continue to apply in Exhaustion Phase 2:

  1. No explicit limit on the number of times an organisation may request additional IPv4 space. (CPM section 5.4.4.)
  2. Allocation/Assignment period (planning window) is 8 months. (CPM section 5.4.5.)
  3. Existing Resource Members are eligible to get additional blocks if 90% efficient usage of all resources has been demonstrated. (CPM section 5.4.6.1.)
  4. Use of AFRINIC IPv4 resources outside the AFRINIC service region should be solely in support of connectivity back to the AFRINIC region. (CPM section 5.4.6.2.)
     

Operational

AFRINIC encourages all its Resource Members to ensure policy compliance and submit their resource requests with complete information.

 

Future Information

AFRINIC will issue another communique when Exhaustion Phase 2 appears to be imminent. 

 

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(Arabic version below)

 

afrinic survey 2019As part of our ongoing effort to improve our services, we invited you to participate in the 2018 AFRINIC Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS) from 05 October 2018 to 15 February 2019. The study was conducted with the following objectives in mind:

  1. To measure the quality of service delivered by AFRINIC to its members and the community
  2. To identify the main drivers of satisfaction with the service level as well as the causes of dissatisfaction with some of our services in order to build on the strengths and work on the weak areas
  3. To determine the expectations of members with regards to improving AFRINIC’s overall services and to prioritise areas of members’ interests
  4. To understand the importance of each component of the value chain from the members’ perspectives.

To ensure transparent and objective analysis of the CSS results, AFRINIC contracted DCDM Research, an organisation that has extensive experience in designing and conducting statistical surveys in order to have specialist consultation and advice on the matter. The final report of this survey is available at https://afrinic.net/surveys/customer-satisfaction-report-2019

It is satisfying to note that 80% of AFRINIC members are satisfied with the overall services we provide as indicated on page 14 of the report. We, however, are already working to enhance the request-response time by Customer and Registration Services department as most of the respondents indicated the need to improve on the department’s performance (p.10-11). In line with AFRINIC’s Service Level Commitment, we have now implemented an internal dashboard to track service levels and to monitor the improvements in our customer and registration services.

We also acknowledge the suggestions and recommendations by AFRINIC members on some key services and activities that AFRINIC should conduct in the future (p. 31-32). However, implementation of these activities will be carried out over the coming years subject to availability of funds.

We are also considering the feedback from the AFRINIC community regarding the need to charge some fees from attendees of AFRINIC public meetings. The community highly recommended AFRINIC’s public events, community capacity building, Internet statistic information, community engagements, and fellowship programmes, and we acknowledge the urgent need to improve our current website as requested by the community (p. 56).

We conclude by pointing out that AFRINIC members and community are overall satisfied with the organisation’s performance and they have been loyal to us over the years. Both the satisfaction and the loyalty level have increased in comparison to 2012 and 2018 (pp9, 58).

Thank you for your continued support.

 

أعزائي الأعضاء الكرام وأصحاب المصلحة

 

كجزء من جهودنا المستمرة لتحسين خدماتنا ، قمنا بدعوتك للمشاركة في استبيان رضا العملاء (CSS) لعام 2018 من 05 أكتوبر 2018 إلى 15 فبراير 2019. وقد أجريت الدراسة مع مراعاة الأهداف التالية:

1. لقياس جودة الخدمة التي تقدمها AFRINIC لأفرادها والمجتمع
2. تحديد الدوافع الرئيسية للرضا عن مستوى الخدمة وكذلك أسباب عدم الرضا عن بعض خدماتنا من أجل البناء على نقاط القوة والعمل على المناطق الضعيفة
3. تحديد توقعات الأعضاء فيما يتعلق بتحسين خدمات AFRINIC الشاملة وتحديد أولويات اهتمامات الأعضاء
4. فهم أهمية كل عنصر في سلسلة القيمة من وجهة نظر الأعضاء.

لضمان تحليل شفاف وموضوعي لنتائج CSS ، تعاقدت AFRINIC مع DCDM Research ، وهي منظمة لديها خبرة واسعة في تصميم وإجراء المسوحات الإحصائية من أجل الحصول على مشورة متخصصة وإسداء المشورة بشأن هذه المسألة. يتوفر التقرير النهائي لهذا الاستطلاع عبر عنوان https://afrinic.net/surveys/customer-satisfaction-report-2019 ، وأنا أشارككم هنا بعض النقاط البارزة.

 

من المرضي ملاحظة أن 80٪ من أعضاء AFRINIC راضون عن الخدمات الشاملة التي نقدمها كما هو موضح في الصفحة 14 من التقرير. ومع ذلك ، نحن نعمل بالفعل على تعزيز وقت الاستجابة للطلب من قبل قسم خدمات العملاء والتسجيل لأن معظم المشاركين أشاروا إلى الحاجة إلى تحسين أداء القسم (ص 10-11). تمشيا مع التزام AFRINIC الخاص بمستوى الخدمة ، قمنا الآن بتنفيذ لوحة معلومات داخلية لتتبع مستويات الخدمة ومراقبة التحسينات في خدمات العملاء والتسجيل لدينا.

 

نقر أيضًا بالاقتراحات والتوصيات المقدمة من أعضاء AFRINIC بشأن بعض الخدمات والأنشطة الرئيسية التي يجب على AFRINIC القيام بها في المستقبل (ص 31 - 32). ومع ذلك ، سيتم تنفيذ هذه الأنشطة على مدى السنوات القادمة رهنا بتوافر الأموال.

 

نحن نفكر أيضًا في التعليقات الواردة من مجتمع AFRINIC فيما يتعلق بضرورة فرض بعض الرسوم من الحاضرين للاجتماعات العامة لـ AFRINIC. أوصى المجتمع بشدة بأحداث AFRINIC العامة ، وبناء قدرات المجتمع ، والمعلومات الإحصائية عبر الإنترنت ، والمشاركة المجتمعية ، وبرامج الزمالات ، ونحن نقر بالحاجة الملحة لتحسين موقعنا على شبكة الإنترنت الحالي بناءً على طلب المجتمع (الصفحة 56).

 

نختتم بالإشارة إلى أن أعضاء ومجتمع AFRINIC راضون بشكل عام عن أداء المنظمة وأنهم كانوا موالين لنا على مر السنين. زاد كل من مستوى الرضا والولاء مقارنة بعام 2012 و 2018 (الصفحات 9 ، 58).

شكرا لدعمكم المتواصل.

 

آلان باريت

الرئيس التنفيذي لشركة AFRINIC

 

 

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The independent ASO Review 2017[1] report[2] outlined 18 recommendations which the NRO resolved to accept.  17 of these recommendations were non-controversial and deemed straightforward to implement by the NRO Secretariat, or the ASO Address Council (ASO AC).

The report also recommended community consultations in each of the five Regional Internet Registry (RIR) regions to determine the future structure of the ASO.

AFRINIC ASO representatives were subsequently tasked to lead a community process for a response from the region after an update from the CEO at the AIS2018 meeting in Dakar. 

An initial attempt to conduct the consultation on the Community-Discuss mailing list in July 2018 did not get any responses. The reasons for the apathy were not quite clear so the consultation was reframed as a survey[3] of the community on the issues raised in the review.

The survey was launched in English and French in November 2018 and announced on the AFRINIC website and relevant mailing lists.  This was more successful and got some feedback from the community.

The majority of valid responses received were in favour of maintaining the current activities of the ASO. 

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About 40% of the respondents indicated a preference for the ASO to restrict involvement to matters directly related to numbers and not get involved with DNS aspects, but the overall majority (54%) were happy with the ASO responding on demand to requests from ICANN. 

 

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Based on the response rates and the feedback, it would appear that the AFRINIC community is satisfied with the current role and function of the ASO within ICANN.

Wafa Dahmani, Noah Maina and Omo Oaiya (Jauary 2019)

 

[1] https://www.nro.net/about-the-nro/aso-independent-review-2017/

[2] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/aso-review-final-03aug17.pdf

[3] https://afrinic.net/take-the-survey-on-the-aso-consultation-review 

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AFRINIC and the RIPE NCC are pleased to announce the installation of a RIPE Atlas anchor on AFRINIC's infrastructure in Mauritius. The installation is part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two RIRs to increase collaborative efforts in the promotion of Internet development throughout their respective regions. 

The RIPE Atlas project is a global network of probes that measure Internet connectivity and reachability, providing an unprecedented understanding of the state of the Internet in real time. The data collected by the AFRINIC-hosted anchor, mu-plu-as32768, together with the project's other anchors and probes, is made available to anyone and provides valuable information about the local and regional connectivity and reachability of the Internet. 

Find out more about the RIPE Atlas Project and the RIPE Atlas community, its contributions, and the hosts who stand out in the RIPE Atlas network.

Read the MoU here.

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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) made an allocation of the equivalent of a /12 of IPv4 address space to AFRINIC and each of the other four RIRs in accordance with the "Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA". This policy states that the RIRs will each receive one-fifth of any recovered addresses in the IANA's recovered pool every six months, in March and September.

AFRINIC was allocated the IPv4 address range 45.96.0.0 - 45.111.255.255 from IANA's recovered pool.

For more information about getting Internet resources from AFRINIC, please see: http://www.afrinic.net/en/services/becoming-a-member/resource-member

For information about IPv4 exhaustion, please see:  http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/ipv4-exhaustion

 

 

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 ICANN announced that it had begun the process of allocating the remaining blocks of IPv4 address space to the five Regional Internet Registries (RIR). The trigger for this was LACNIC's pool of IPv4 address space reaching a /9 ( 8,388,606 addresses). LACNIC has now moved into Phase 1 of its community-defined IPv4 Exhaustion Plan. APNIC exhausted its supply of IPv4 address space in 2011 and the RIPE NCC followed quickly in 2012. In April 2014, ARIN announced that it had reached phase 4 of its IPv4 Exhaustion Plan.  

"The Internet technical community has been preparing for this phase in global IPv4 exhaustion for the last few years and we expect the community-developed "Global Policy for Post Exhaustion IPv4 Allocation Mechanisms by the IANA" to kick-in shortly," says Adiel A. Akplogan, CEO of AFRINIC. "As we move into this new phase of the Internet's evolution, we cannot ignore the fact that total exhaustion of the global IPv4 pool will occur in the very near future. Although AFRINIC's supply of IPv4 address space has not reached critically low levels yet, we cannot predict how long our supplies will last. Existing and emerging networks will face scalability issues unless they are made IPv6 ready to ensure long-term network growth and global connectivity. It is now imperative that all African stakeholders ensure that IPv6 is deployed on their networks, that devices are IPv6 enabled and our content is available over IPv6 immediately so that we remain connected to the global IPv6 Internet and so that our millions of future Internet users can get online."

The community is encouraged to contribute to discussions on the Policy Discussion Mailing list and during the upcoming AFRINIC Meeting to voice their opinion on all aspects of regional and global Internet number resource allocation policies.

AFRINIC has been leading the effort throughout Africa to promote and support IPv6 deployment since 2005 through outreach, education, free training courses and provision of an IPv6 test bed. Find out more about our IPv6 Programme. 

Read Adiel A. Akplogan's recent statement on the urgent need for all African stakeholders to deploy IPv6.

 

  1. Take the 2018 AFRINIC Stakeholders Survey
  2. New version of AFRINIC Internet Routing Registry Released
  3. Implementation of the policy "Lame delegations in AFRINIC reverse DNS"
  4. Publication of AFRINIC Internet Routing Registry Guide
  5. Board appointments to fill casual vacancies

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