*[Please disregard previous mail] Cybercity, Ebene, Mauritius, 18 October 2012 -* The African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today signed letters of agreement to facilitate the deployment of anycast instances of L Root DNS server, operated by ICANN, in the African region. The cooperation includes AFRINIC helping to identify hosts for the installations as well as providing financial and technical support where needed, to the hosts. This agreement is signed just as the African community, in the new initiative it is taking to ICANN has highlighted regional infrastructure resiliency as one of the main pillars of Internet development in the region.
The letters of agreement were signed by Adiel Akplogan and Fadi Chehadé respectively Chief Executive Officers of AFRINIC and ICANN in Toronto, Canada, where ICANN's 45th public meeting is taking place. "This agreement comes in at a perfect time here in Toronto when ICANN has unveiled a new initiative to increase presence and participation across our region" said Adiel Akplogan. "Besides policy related discussions and participation, Africa needs to strengthen the resiliency of its Internet Infrastructure in order to attract local contents investments." "This very important agreement is a further reflection of the hard work of the Africa stakeholders and their spirit of engagement," said Fadi Chehadé, President and Chief Executive Officer of ICANN. "Our commitment to this sort of cooperative effort is framed by the initiative of the Africa Support Working Group, which is aimed at increasing African participation in ICANN." ICANN, as the operator of the L-Root Server, will work cooperatively with AFRINIC to identify candidate sites within the region of Africa that meet the criteria for the hosting of anycast instances of the L-Root server operated by ICANN. As part of AFRINIC's mission, the organisation is committed to promoting Internet development within the region, and has demonstrated commitment to enhancing the stability, reach, strength and response times of the DNS system regionally as well as globally. AFRINIC has currently several projects to accomplish those objectives. Amongst these, the African Root Server Copy Programme (AfRSCP) project aims to increase the number of DNS root servers instances in the African region as well as its own DNS Anycast platform where AFRINIC hosts its own DNS services but also make it available at no cost for ccTLDs in the region. -- Ms. Babusha Radhakissoon Tel: +230 403 51 00 PR and Marketing Assistant, AFRINIC Fax: +230 466 67 58 [email protected] - www.afrinic.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join us at AFRINIC-17 for our Public Policy Meeting in Khartoum, Sudan, on 24 -- 29 November 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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