AFRINIC-27 comes alive in Lagos, Nigeria.

Arrival and Collection of materials for the AFRINIC-27 kicked-off today at one of Africa's prestigious hotel, the Renaissance Hotel, GRA -Ikeja, Lagos. The event is expected to start Monday, November 27, 2017 to Friday, December 1, 2017. The host, Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA), is the association and registry in charge of the Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), .ng (pronounced dotNG).

According to one of the crew of AFRINIC, it holds two open public policy meetings every year in various locations throughout Africa, its service region. AFRINIC meetings provide a unique opportunity for Internet-related individuals and organisations to gather and discuss the policies governing Internet number resource distribution in the African region, to share technical knowledge, and to attend workshops and tutorials. This is also extended to members of the media with passion to learn and inform the public on the activities of AFRINIC in Africa.

Plenary sessions bring the various stakeholder groups of the African ICT community together, including the Af* organisations and ISPs, for public policy discussions, presentations and stakeholder panel sessions on:

* The allocation and management of IP addresses and ASNs;

* Technical and Internet governance issues;

* Networking, peering and security;

* Domain names, cyber laws and registrars issues;

* Updates of the African registry operations, RIR, IANA, and ICANN updates.

About AFRINIC

Prior to its creation, all IP Addresses were managed by APNIC, ARIN, and RIPE NCC. The mission for creating AFRINIC was to "serve the African Community by providing professional and efficient management of Internet number technology usage and development, and promoting Internet self-governance." 

The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) is a non-governmental and not-for-profit membership based organization. Its main role is to serve as the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the African region. AFRINIC was recognized by ICANN as a functioning regional registry and information center in 2004.

AFRINIC is responsible for the distribution and management of Internet number resources - IP address space (IPv4 and IPv6) and Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) - in its service region, which includes Africa and the Indian Ocean region.

Internet number resources are allocated to AFRINIC and the four other RIRs by Public Technical Identifiers (PTI). PTI is responsible for coordinating the Internet’s unique identifiers and performs the IANA functions, which include coordination of domain names, Internet number resources and protocol parameters.

AFRINIC-27

Anyone can propose a policy and participate in the discussions during the dedicated Policy Development sessions at AFRINIC and AIS Meetings as well as on the policy discussion (rpd) mailing list. You do not need to be an AFRINIC member to participate.Public policy discussions will take place during AFRINIC-27 this week.

So much will be happening. Opening Ceremony is Tuesday, November 28, 2017. We have it on

record that the New Internet Society Nigeria Chapter President and some of his Executives will be in attendance.



More details will come up on our YouTube Channel,  Facebook, Twitter Handle and Instagram.

Follow us for a week you can not afford to miss with AFRINIC in Lagos, Nigeria.

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