1. AfriNIC Transition Plan
Ernest Byaruhanga
I-week Johannesburg
September 9th 2004
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2. Why a transition plan? Africa is served by 3 RIRs
There is a need for harmonization
consistency..
LIRs and stakeholders and community need to be updated with the transition’s:
clear milestones
action plans
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3. Transition plan
Transition is organized in 4 (Business and Technical) Phases:
Phase 0: Preparation (Ended)
Phase 1: Co-evaluation & AfriNIC
Database/Whois setup (Started)
Phase 2: Uniform policy and Evaluation process
Phase 3: Provisional Recognition & Independent evaluation with Audit by RIRs.
Phase 4: Final approval
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4. Phase 0 (Done)
Training and staffing: AfriNIC has hired staff that have been trained at RIPE NCC in RIR operations
Physical Office setup
South Africa
Mauritius
Infrastructure & Technical Transition design
Network architecture design
Internet transit Identification
Servers and Network equipments acquisition
Tools and software identification
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5. Phase 0 cont (Done) Policies documents Budget and financial plan
Registration Service Agreements
Supporting documents
Budget and financial plan
Start of Phase 1
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6. Phase 1 (1/2)
Joint Request Evaluation:
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7. Phase 1 (cont) Application for recognition (ICANN ICP2)
AfriNIC database design and setup
AfriNIC WHOIS DB Setup
Choose to use RIPE WHOIS/DB
Procedure then similar to RIPE
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8. Phase 2 (1/2) Will start after Application for formal recognition
New members will be officially informed about AfriNIC and be asked to sign two agreements (RIRs and AfriNIC’s one)
AfriNIC will serve as secondary DNS for /8 (reserved for Africa by all RIRs)
Co-evaluation continues
Finalising Billing Systems.
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9. Phase 2 Setup web based tools for members
Prepare and document Data transfer from the different RIRs to AfriNIC system
Prepare and document transfer of 196/8 reverse DNS to AfriNIC.
Test and validation of Data transfer process
Review of all supporting documents
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10. Phase 3 Provisional recognition from ICANN (expected for Dec’04)
Data transfer agreement between AfriNIC and ARIN/RIPE NCC/APNIC.
Full service to community based on adopted policies
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11. So … Conclusion Phase-0 ended, Phase-1 has begun
Policy documents were adopted
Offices are setup, staff are operational
We have the community support
We have a financial plan
We have a clear transition plan
We have the International community support
Conclusion
We know where we are going, we are on the way. We are confident that this progress will bring more people to the wagon … and give a positive message to the world that AfriNIC is going to happen!
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12. Transition time schedule 2004
Start sending requests to
24/05/04 - AfriNIC I
AGM
Documents approval
Start billing transition
New Members start signing double Agreements
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
26/01/04
RIPE Meeting
Policies changes
Project Meeting
Start acting as Secondary for 196/8
ICANN meeting
(Kuala Lumpur)
Application for recognition
ARIN regional Meeting
Staff relocation in South Africa
RIPE NCC regional Meeting
Prepare and Office setup
General terms and conditions
Policies (V4,v6, ASN, and DB)
Internal procedure
Billing
New LIR
Requests Form
Etc..
Operational budget
Technical preparation for Phase 1
Start using the same procedure for African Members
o Request forms
o Evaluation procedure
AfriNIC evaluate requests with RIRs second approvals.
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13. Questions?? Next: AfriNIC policies compared with those of other RIRs.
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14. Policy Comparison between AfriNIC and other RIRs (ARIN, APNIC, RIPE NCC, LACNIC)
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15. AfriNIC Policies?
AfriNIC policies were developed by the AfriNIC Policy WG
Were presented to the community in the AFNOG-V /AfriNIC-1 meeting in Dakar (May 2004)
Were passed by the community and ratified by the AfriNIC Board of Directors!
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16. Policy Comparison RIPE NCC ARIN APNIC LACNIC AfriNIC Service Region:
Europe,
North Equatorial Afria
USA, Canada,
South Equatorial Africa
Asia, Indian Ocean Islands
South America, Carribean
Africa, Indian Ocean Islands
Official Language(s):
English
English,
Spanish,
Portuguese
French
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17. IPv4 and IPv6: RIPE NCC ARIN APNIC LACNIC AfriNIC IPv4:
Min. Alocation:
SubAllocations:
Min:
Max:
Assignments:
/20, /22 (Africa)
/24
/20
/30
Variable
Same
N/A
Variable,
/22 (Africa)
/19
/23
/21
/22
IPv6
/32
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18. demonstrate existing efficient utilisation of a /22
Eligibility Criteria
RIPE NCC
ARIN
APNIC
LACNIC
AfriNIC
IPv4:
demonstrate existing efficient utilisation of a /22
must renumber previous assignments in 3 months
demonstrate existing efficient utilisation of a /20
show how the /20 will be used within 3 months
show current use of /23 from upstream,
plan to use a /22 in one year
must renumber into new allocation in 1 year
Demonstrate
efficient use of
a /22
(multihomed)
and /21 (not
multihomed)
show current usage of IP addresses from upstream.
plan to renumber into new allocation within 3 months
IPv6:
- be an LIR
- plan to assign 200 /48s in 2 yrs
(same)
-be an LIR
-offer IPv6
services to orgs in service region for 2 yrs
-plan to make
/48 assignments
to end-users in 1 year.
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19. AS Numbers and Reverse Delegation:
RIPE NCC
ARIN
APNIC
LACNIC
AfriNIC
Reverse Delegation:
IPv4:
IPv6:
-in-addr.arpa
-LIRs only
Ip6.arpa (was ip6.int)
Same
AS Numbers
- network must be multihomed
network must mention ASNs of 2 peers.
(same)
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21. End
Questions or Comments
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