AfriNIC-6 Public Policy Meeting

We had our 6th public policy meeting in Abuja (Nigeria) from the 28th April to 4th May 2007. The main focus of this meeting was the IPv4 address exhaustion and what can be done by the community to address issues being raised by this exhaustion. As an incentive for greater IPv6 take-up and usage within Africa, a new fee schedule was approved for IPv6 Membership fees. Also, a 50% discount has been proposed to universities and research networks on set-up and annual membership fees for IPv4 allocation/Assignment with one requirement being for them to have an IPv6 migration plan and get a their own block from AfriNIC.

Hacia una Internet más racional en Latinoamérica

El NAP de Cabase, punto de intercambio de tráfico de redes Internet de la Argentina, completó la instalación de un sitio de resolución de nombres regional (RIRS), provisto por Verisign. En él, se resolverán 50M de búsquedas de dominios .com y .net por día. Gabriel Adonaylo, VP del NAP, explica los pasos que vienen dando para mejorar el flujo de datos por la red de redes. También da cuenta de las acciones a escala regional en el mismo sentido.

Doing Business Securely in an Insecure World

By Randy Bush
2007.08.07

What real improvements in security have we achieved?  The net certainly
is not a safe place with phishing, DDoS attacks, cross-site script HTML
attacks, etc.  But, though these are serious problems indeed, we should
not ignore where we have been successful and try to take some lessons
from these successes.