Call for volunteers - ad hoc NomCom for Board Seat 2

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Following the resignation of Mr Sunday Folayan from the AFRINIC Board, Seat 2 (Western Africa) is vacant.  The Board as per Resolution 201803.399 resolved to hold an election for Seat 2 at the next AGMM in May 2018 in Dakar, Senegal.

This implies that NomCom should propose a slate of candidates, and in terms of the Bylaws article 12.2(ii), the slate of candidates must be included in the notice of the meeting.  However, the current NomCom 2018 includes members who reside in Western Africa, and now there is an open seat for Western Africa, which raises a conflict with the Bylaws article 9.1.

After receiving legal advice and after providing time for AFRINIC members to comment, the Board's intention is to appoint an ad hoc NomCom to handle only the election for Seat 2, leaving the existing NomCom to handle other elections.

I hereby call for volunteers from the community to fill three open positions on an ad hoc Nomination Committee (NomCom) to finalise the list of candidates for Board Seat 2 (Western Africa) for an election to be held at the AGMM in May 2018 in Dakar, Senegal.  If you are interested in serving on the ad hoc NomCom, please send your expression of interest, including a short biography, by email to legalafrinic dot net by Tuesday 3 April 2018 at 12:00 UTC.

Alan Barrett
CEO, AFRINIC

Nomination Committee (NomCom) Updates, Board Updates

Registration now Open for AFRINIC INRM & IPv6 Training Course at AIS'18 in Senegal

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Registration is now open for the upcoming AFRINIC Internet Number Resources Management (INRM) and Understanding and Deploying IPv6 Workshop.

Location: Dakar, Senegal

Date: 5 - 7 May 2018

Registration closes on: 13 April 2018

Our Workshops

AFRINIC is one of Africa's leading technical capacity builders and trains over 600 engineers on INRM and IPv6 Deployment each year. We offer one of the continent's most highly regarded IPv6 Forum (Gold) Certified training programmes and all of our workshops are taught by highly experienced training staff. The following workshops will be delivered in Senegal:

Internet Number Resources Management Fundamentals (1 day)
Understanding and Deploying IPv6 (3 days)
At the end of this four-day workshop, participants will be able to:
Effectively manage their Internet Number Resources using the WHOIS database
Create an IPv6 Address Plan
Configure, troubleshoot and verify IPv6 devices as part of an IPv6 deployment project
And much more.

Find out more about our INRM workshop at: http://learn.afrinic.net/en/course/inrm/foundation

Find out more about our IPv6 workshop at: http://learn.afrinic.net/en/course/ipv6/foundation

Fees and Requirements

Participation is FREE of charge for selected participants and you do not need to be an AFRINIC member to attend. However, priority is always given to AFRINIC members.

Lunch and light refreshments will be served during workshop. Please note that AFRINIC does not contribute to transportation and/or accommodation costs for the participants.

Workshops are open to network engineers and systems administrators who already understand how to design and build IPv4 networks and can use basic network services like DHCP and DNS.

More Information

Selected candidates will be contacted directly and must confirm their attendance within 48 hours or their place will be forfeited.

If you have any questions about AFRINIC's Training Workshops, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. <mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;.

You can also keep up to date with our news and updates on our Twitter accounts @afrinictraining and @afrinic and on www.learn.afrinic.net <http://www.learn.afrinic.net/>

AFRINIC Workshop

Application for the Hackathon@AIS is now open

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The application process for the Hackathon @ AIS is now open. The Hackathon@AIS is an event aimed at exposing engineers from the African region to Open Internet Standards development and is co-organized by ISOC and AFRINIC. This will be the second event in the series following a successful event held in Nairobi last year during the Africa Internet Summit.

Please look at https://hackathon.internetsummitafrica.org/ to see the topics that will be covered this year.

Network/System engineers, software developers, and or computer science students are encouraged to apply as engagement in open Internet standards development can help further their careers.

The event will be held on the 9th and 10th of May 2018 in Dakar, Senegal. If you are interested in participating AND can commit to being available over the 2 days, please fill the application form. Space is limited and successful applicants will be notified and then be enrolled in various online training sessions in the build up of the event.

Fellowships will be awarded to strong applicants where possible.

Click here to apply: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/R6MPTYQ

Applications close on the 8th of April 2018.

AIS, Hackathon

AFRINIC Board Ratifies Policy Proposal Lame delegations in AFRINIC reverse DNS

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The community is hereby informed that at its meeting of 21 March 2018, the AFRINIC Board, in accordance with article 3.4.4 of the Consolidated Policy Manual (CPM), ratified the policy proposal “Lame delegations in AFRINIC reverse DNS” as per below resolution:

Resolution 201803.395

WHEREAS the proposed policy AFPUB-2017-DNS-001-DRAFT-02 (Lame delegations in AFRINIC reverse DNS) has passed through the Policy Development Process;

WHEREAS the Policy Development Working Group’s Chairs have referred the proposed policy to the Board for ratification;

RESOLVED that the policy is ratified by the Board

AFRINIC will now start the necessary steps and process for the immediate implementation of this policy, and inform the community once the implementation process is completed.

Announcement of AFRINIC-28 Fellows

: Posted By AFRINIC; Published On - 27 March 2018; Hits: 5298

AFRINIC is pleased to announce that the AFRINIC-28 fellowship selection process is now complete and the following applicants have been selected to receive a fellowship to attend AFRINIC-28 being held from 5 – 11 May in Dakar, Senegal.

Evelyn Bisona Fonkem - Cameroon
Keolebogile Rantsetse -Botswana
Frieda Lukas - Namibia
Uffa Gloria Modey - Nigeria
Aisha Saho - Gambia
Soma Horossi Rita Berthe - Burkina Faso
Manga Willy Ted Gregory Marcel- Cameroon
Joshua Musasizi - Uganda
Alaeddine Oueslati -Tunisia
Aboubabacar Ben Aboubacar -Comoros
Amessinou Kossi - Benin
Yusif Amadu - Ghana

Congratulations to all the fellows and we look forward to collaborating with you on Internet development initiatives in the African region.

Find out more about the AFRINIC Fellowship Program here

You can read more on the AFRINIC-28 fellowship on our blog.

AFRINIC Fellowship

Notice of resignation of Mr. Sunday Folayan from AFRINIC Board

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26 March 2018 - This is to inform you that today 26th March 2018 the Board has received a letter of resignation from Mr. Sunday Folayan from the Afrinic Board.

The Board wishes to inform you further that it will take necessary steps as per company guidelines to fill the vacant Board seat.

The Board would like to thank Mr. Folayan for his services to the Members and community at large and wishes him all the best in his future endeavors.

Regards,
--
Abibu R. Ntahigiye
CEO, tzNIC / Interim Chairman, AfriNIC

Board Updates

Board Changes

: Posted By Webmaster; Published On - 26 March 2018; Hits: 5397

26 March 2018 - Sunday Folayan and Haitham El-Nakhal have stepped down from their positions as Chair and Vice Chair of the AFRINIC Board, pending the conclusion of an investigation into allegations that have been made against them. They sent email messages of resignation on 16 March 2018, and sent signed letters of resignation today, 23 March 2018, after legal advice was received yesterday, 22 March 2018, that signed letters were necessary.

The AFRINIC Board has elected Abibu Ntahigiye as Chair, and Christian Bope as Vice Chair, for an interim period to be re-evaluated after the conclusion of the investigation, but no later than 31 May 2018. I congratulate them on their appointment and wish them well.

Regards,

Alan Barrett
CEO, AFRINIC