PeeringDB is a freely available, user-maintained, database of networks, and the go-to location for interconnection data. The database facilitates the global interconnection of networks at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), data centers, and other interconnection facilities, and is the first stop in making interconnection decisions.
The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) has concluded the ‘’AFRINIC Members Connect' held from 22 - 24 November 2022. The theme of the online meeting was “Educate and Network", and it was an opportunity to engage with our Members.
In preparation for the 2023 annual membership invoicing, AFRINIC organised a webinar on 26th October 2022 to engage with its members, through their registered billing contacts.
The objective was to raise awareness of the billing timeline and address some recurring issues. The webinar focussed on the following:
Eugene Bogomazov from Qrator Labs presented a paper during the African Peering and Interconnection Forum that took place on August 23, 2022. The paper highlights the results and conclusions of measurements taken from several networks in African countries. We publish these results here through this blog.
AFRINIC receives a variety of questions and enquiries for support. At the same time, some fall out of scope; however, we have narrowed down the frequently asked questions, mostly related to member account information, IP resources and billing-related queries.
PeeringDB wants input from everyone who uses our interconnection database. Our anonymous survey is now open until 23:59 UTC on 16 October 2022.
We would like your feedback to help us make PeeringDB more useful to everyone involved in connecting networks.
We had about 250 responses to last year’s survey, which helped guide our product development.
Key changes delivered so far in 2022 include:
We’ve also published more documents in our how-to documentation series.
Steve McManus, PeeringDB Product Committee Chair, says: "The 2021 survey helped us focus development where it was most needed. We used it to develop our roadmap. We are still implementing things we have learned from previous surveys but want your input on how we should adapt. Please take a few moments of your time to help us make PeeringDB a better service!”
In 2022 we have added a couple of extra questions. We'd like to know how many people usePeeringDB at your organization. We'd also like to know how you use it: web, API, or via a local cache. We will use your answers to focus development work where it is most needed.
The survey is available in the six UN languages, Portuguese and Ukrainian. Please provide comments in whatever language you want to express yourself.
We’ll share the results and the new product roadmap early in 2023.
So CLICK HERE to help guide PeeringDB’s future development.
If you have an idea to improve PeeringDB, you can share it on our low-traffic mailing lists or create an issue directly on GitHub. If you find a data quality issue, please let us know This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
PeeringDB is a freely available, user-maintained database of networks and the go-to location for interconnection data. The database facilitates the global interconnection of networks at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), data centres, and other interconnection facilities and is the first stop in making interconnection decisions.
On 21st July 2022, AFRINIC organised a finance webinar with its resource members. The main focus of the webinar was to give members further explanation on questions raised on the financials during the last AGMM. Discussions were also focused on the non-adoption of the Audited Financial Statements for the year ending 31 December 2021. One of the questions that AFRINIC believed needed more clarity to the members was the difference of USD 16K in the finance report published on the website and the audited financial statements in the strategic cash reserves section.
The difference in the above table represents accrued interest adjustment provided by the auditors after completing the audit exercise.
The webinar was attended by 62 AFRINIC Resource Members from 62 Organizations in 28 countries.
Image showing the Webinar statistics
Hosted by the AFRINIC Finance Team, the webinar provided insights on the AFRINIC accounts that were audited by the company’s auditors BDO Mauritius and further explained the discrepancies between the unaudited finance report published on the website and the Audited Financial Statements that were raised by Members, during the AGMM and on the AFRINIC mailing lists conveying the possible impacts of the unadopted financials to AFRINIC.
A series of polls took place to engage further with the Members present in the webinar. From these polls, we noted:
In light of the above, we prepared a short video that guides how Resource Members can vote on the MyAFRINIC Platform.
Below are a few links that you could find helpful if you missed or need references for the webinar.
AFRINIC would like to thank all the members who participated in the AFRINIC Finance webinar. We shall inform you of other upcoming webinars on our key activities during the year.
