AfriNIC moves forward and promotes regional integration
3 November 2004
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The African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) has taken another step towards formal recognition as an official Regional Internet number Registry (RIR) with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board, announcing its provisional recognition, the last stage before full recognition. AfriNIC has begun managing Internet number resources for the Africa region, including IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
AfriNIC CEO, Adiel Akplogan, was pleased with the progress thus far and the positive response from the Africa region: "AfriNIC is building a regional registry to meet Africa's regional needs. We are bringing regional management to our IP address distribution, and that puts the Africa region on par with the other global regions of Europe, Asia/Pacific, North America and Latin America."
As part of the transition to local control of these Internet resources, AfriNIC has received expressions of support from more than 40 local Internet Service Providers representing 14 countries. The existing Regional Internet Registries, APNIC, ARIN, RIPE NCC and LACNIC, have supported AfriNIC strongly, according to Paul Wilson, chair of the Number Resource Organisation. AfriNIC has centres of Technical and Administrative Operations in four African countries: Mauritius, Ghana, South Africa, and Egypt.
The regional model of Internet address allocation works well in balancing the need to provide resources to new and growing Internet communities, and to manage the resources so they will be available for future users. Said ICANN: "IP addresses are a resource that is shared based on need, not demand, and that allows newcomers to have access in the same way as more established users. AfriNIC members will determine regional policy for the distribution of IP addresses to their region's Internet providers and AfriNIC has already adopted some rules that are specific to the Africa region to address the unique needs of Africa's Internet communities."
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