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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-7: Call for Papers Announcement

2022-07-05 Thread Mark Tinka


Hello all.

The CfP (Call for Papers) for the SAFNOG-7 conference, due to take place 
in-person on the 30th - 31st August, 2022, at the Lagoon Beach Hotel in 
Cape Town, South Africa, is now open.


Please find more details about the CfP at the link below:

https://safnog.org/event/papers.html

We look forward to receiving your submissions, and to seeing you in Cape 
Town soon. Thanks.


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Re: [Community-Discuss] Update on the complaint lodged against AFRINIC at the Competition Commission of Mauritius

2022-02-18 Thread Mark Tinka





On 2/18/22 13:57, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:


Democracy = Transparency


Hmmh... mmkay.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Update on the complaint lodged against AFRINIC at the Competition Commission of Mauritius

2022-02-18 Thread Mark Tinka





On 2/17/22 17:47, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:


In normal democratic countries, ...


What is a normal democratic country?

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Cloud Innovation Ltd vs AFRINIC (SCR 5C/30/21) Court Update

2022-02-15 Thread Mark Tinka


Step by step.

Well done, Eddy and team!

Mark.

On 2/16/22 03:53, John Curran wrote:

Sylvain -

Indeed - upon review, it is apparent that "the standing of the
current injunction is the basis on which the judge ruled that the
appeal was effectively moot and therefore dismissed it.” (as
stated by Owen).

However, the weakness of such a statement is that it doesn’t
convey the full context of the learned judge's ruling - the
“disturbing features” of the entire matter before the court of
record, the “concern at the number of successive applications
lodged by the appellant against the respondent praying in effect
for the same remedy.", etc.

This is why the other assertion that Owen made (i.e. "the appeal
was dismissed _strictly_ (emphasis added) on the grounds that the
existing injunction essentially renders the appeal moot.”) is more
speculative in nature – as one cannot know if it was “strictly” on
that basis and/or the extent that these "distributing features”
weighed into consideration – only that the full context of all
these applications before the court seeking similar remedy was
considered sufficiently relevant by the court to be included in
the judgement.


Thanks again for sharing!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers




On 16 Feb 2022, at 5:14 AM, Sylvain Baya  wrote:

Dear AfriNIC's Community,

Hope this email finds you in good health,

Please see my comments below, inline...

Le mardi 15 février 2022, Dewole Ajao  a écrit :

Thanks for the update which you seem to be celebrating (if I read
you correctly). For those like me who are legalese-challenged,
does this mean that Cloud Innovation's resources are now
effectively revoked?



Hi Dewole,
Thanks for your email, brother :-)
...i'm samely challenged, though, but it's certainly
a good new for the stability of the whole INRS...
even if it turns out to be just temporary...btw, i
know someone, following up and, who could easily
 & freely explain the sustainable impact of what the
 honorable judges ruled out.

...i guess i can freely paste the first four pages below:

~°~
CLOUD INNOVATION LTD v AFRICAN NETWORK INFORMATION CENTRE
(AFRINIC) LTD
2022 SCJ 51
Record No. 121865
THE SUPREME COURT OF MAURITIUS
In the matter of:-
Cloud Innovation Ltd
Appellant
v.
African Network Information Centre (Afrinic) Ltd
Respondent
-
JUDGMENT
This is an appeal against a judgment of the learned Judge in Chambers 
delivered

on 7 July 2021 setting aside an application for injunctive relief.
At the hearing, the appellant dropped grounds 1(v), 2, 3 and 5 out of 
the 7
grounds of appeal. We, however, do not propose to deal with the 
merits of the remaining

grounds of appeal for the reasons set out below.
During the hearing, reference was made to 2 other Judge in Chambers
applications as well as a “main case”. As a superior Court of record, 
some disturbing
features have now come to our attention. In the present case, the 
appellant (then
applicant) had applied in essence for an injunction restraining and 
prohibiting the
respondent from terminating the membership of the appellant as a 
resource member of
the respondent (“the first application”). In the judgment delivered 
on 7 July 2021, the
learned Judge in Chambers upheld a preliminary objection raised by 
the respondent and

set aside the first application with costs, hence the present appeal.

2
Subsequently, Court records reveal that the same appellant lodged a 
series of
applications before different Judges sitting in Chambers on 12 July, 
13 July,
3 September, 6 September, 26 November, 1 December and 3 December 
2021. The
particulars of these applications and of the first application have 
been set out in tabular

form in an annex to this judgment (Annex A).
From a reading of all these applications, it is patently clear that 
the appellant was
in effect praying for the same remedy in all of them, namely to 
restrain and prohibit the
respondent from terminating the membership of the appellant as a 
resource member of
the respondent. All the applications have been set aside except for 
the ones lodged on

6 September 2021 and 3 December 2021.
For the purposes of this appeal, the application lodged on 3 December 
2021 (“the
last application”) is of particular interest. In this application, 
the learned Judge in

Chambers granted, ex parte, an interim order in the following terms:-
“…. let an interim order in the nature of an injunction issue, 
restraining and
prohibiting the respondent, either by itself, its agent, 
representatives or

préposé from:
(i) acting in any manner whatsoever on or giving effect to its Board
Resolution of the 8th July 2021 or any similar Board resolution or its
letter of the 1st December 2021 or any other similar letter, in any
manner whatsoever, which has the effect of terminating the
membership of the applicant in the respondent as a Resource

Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: [APRICOT-PC-Chairs] APRICOT 2022 Call for Presentations

2022-01-10 Thread Mark Tinka


Hi all.

Just a gentle reminder that the deadline for submissions is 31st 
January, which is in 21 days from now.


Due to the APRICOT PC reviewing papers on a first-come, first-served 
basis, most grateful if you can submit your talks sooner rather than later.


For more details on the submission and agenda milestones, please see:

https://2022.apricot.net/program/call-for-papers/

Mark.

On 11/16/21 06:30, Mark Tinka wrote:

FYI.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[APRICOT-PC-Chairs] APRICOT 2022 Call for Presentations
Date:   Thu, 7 Oct 2021 21:16:43 +1000
From:   Philip Smith 
Reply-To:   APRICOT PC Chairs 
Organization: 	Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Operational 
Technologies

To: ap...@apops.net
CC: APRICOT PC Chairs 



Hi everyone,

Please find below the call for presentations for APRICOT 2022! :-)

Best wishes,

philip
--

APRICOT 2022
21st February - 3rd March, Online
https://2022.apricot.net

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
==

The APRICOT 2022 Programme Committee is now seeking contributions for
Presentations and Tutorials for the APRICOT 2022 Conference.

We are looking for presenters who would:

- Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;
- Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;
- Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics;

Please submit on-line at:

http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=142

Tutorials will take place during the week of 21st February.
Conference sessions and the Peering Forum will take place on the week
of 28th February. All APRICOT 2022 session times will be one hour
long, with up to four sessions scheduled per day.

CONFERENCE MILESTONES
-

Call for Papers Opens: Now
Initial Draft Programme: 6th December 2021
Final Deadline for Submissions: 31st January 2022
Final Program Published: 7th February 2022
Final Slides Received: 14th February 2022

*SLOTS ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS, REGARDLESS OF
PUBLISHED DEADLINES*

PROGRAMME CONTENT
-

The APRICOT Conference Programme consists of three parts, these being
Tutorials, the Peering Forum, and Conference Sessions.

Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies:

- IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and Operations
- Internet backbone operations
- Routing Security, including RPKI and MANRS
- Peering, Interconnects and IXPs
- Network Function Virtualisaton
- Network Automation/Programming
- Content Distribution Network technology & operations
- Research on Internet Operations and Deployment
- Network infrastructure security
- IPv6 deployment on fixed and Wireless/Cellular networks
- DNS / DNSSEC
- Access and Transport Technologies
- Content & Service Delivery and "Cloud Computing"


PEERING FORUM
-

Due to APRICOT 2022 being held online, the PC will only accept Peering
Personals prior to the event starting. Submissions must be of a
single slide listing the operator's PeeringDB entry. Please refer to
https://tinyurl.com/y46954n5 for how to create a successful Peering
Personal presentation.


CfP SUBMISSION
--

Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be
provided with CfP submissions otherwise the submission will be
rejected immediately. For work in progress, the most current
information available at time of submission is acceptable.

All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only.
Slides must be of original work, preferably not presented before at
other venues, with all company confidential marks removed.

Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for
publication on the APRICOT website.

Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots
will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC may,
at their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final
submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely,
important, or of critical operational importance. Every year we turn
away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots
before the deadline. Presenters should endeavour to get material to
the PC sooner rather than later.

For any questions or concerns, please email the PC Chairs.

We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.

Mark Tinka, Tugsorshikh Badarch & Marijana Novakovic
Co-Chairs, APRICOT 2022 Programme Committee
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Re: [Community-Discuss] [arin-ppml] Update on Litigation Between AFRINIC and Cloud Innovation ltd

2021-12-28 Thread Mark Tinka




On 12/28/21 10:36, Mike Silber wrote:
The key difference is that when AfriNIC shares an update, it is from 
an organizational email account and the person’s affiliation is 
clearly stated.


It is not paid shills pretending to be objective and impartial 
“community members” yet pushing a specific (and presumably paid) 
objective.


I consider this “astroturfing”, but it is a distinction without a 
difference.


Maybe if you and others of your ilk were more honest about your 
affiliation - the community would find your interventions less 
objectionable. Certainly I would appreciate more transparency and less 
pretense.


100%.

Mark.

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[Community-Discuss] Fwd: [APRICOT-PC-Chairs] APRICOT 2022 Call for Presentations

2021-11-15 Thread Mark Tinka

FYI.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[APRICOT-PC-Chairs] APRICOT 2022 Call for Presentations
Date:   Thu, 7 Oct 2021 21:16:43 +1000
From:   Philip Smith 
Reply-To:   APRICOT PC Chairs 
Organization:   Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Operational Technologies
To: ap...@apops.net
CC: APRICOT PC Chairs 

Hi everyone,

Please find below the call for presentations for APRICOT 2022! :-)

Best wishes,

philip
--

APRICOT 2022
21st February - 3rd March, Online
https://2022.apricot.net

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
==

The APRICOT 2022 Programme Committee is now seeking contributions for
Presentations and Tutorials for the APRICOT 2022 Conference.

We are looking for presenters who would:

- Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;
- Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;
- Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics;

Please submit on-line at:

http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=142

Tutorials will take place during the week of 21st February.
Conference sessions and the Peering Forum will take place on the week
of 28th February. All APRICOT 2022 session times will be one hour
long, with up to four sessions scheduled per day.

CONFERENCE MILESTONES
-

Call for Papers Opens: Now
Initial Draft Programme: 6th December 2021
Final Deadline for Submissions: 31st January 2022
Final Program Published: 7th February 2022
Final Slides Received: 14th February 2022

*SLOTS ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS, REGARDLESS OF
PUBLISHED DEADLINES*

PROGRAMME CONTENT
-

The APRICOT Conference Programme consists of three parts, these being
Tutorials, the Peering Forum, and Conference Sessions.

Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies:

- IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and Operations
- Internet backbone operations
- Routing Security, including RPKI and MANRS
- Peering, Interconnects and IXPs
- Network Function Virtualisaton
- Network Automation/Programming
- Content Distribution Network technology & operations
- Research on Internet Operations and Deployment
- Network infrastructure security
- IPv6 deployment on fixed and Wireless/Cellular networks
- DNS / DNSSEC
- Access and Transport Technologies
- Content & Service Delivery and "Cloud Computing"

PEERING FORUM
-

Due to APRICOT 2022 being held online, the PC will only accept Peering
Personals prior to the event starting. Submissions must be of a
single slide listing the operator's PeeringDB entry. Please refer to
https://tinyurl.com/y46954n5 for how to create a successful Peering
Personal presentation.

CfP SUBMISSION
--

Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be
provided with CfP submissions otherwise the submission will be
rejected immediately. For work in progress, the most current
information available at time of submission is acceptable.

All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only.
Slides must be of original work, preferably not presented before at
other venues, with all company confidential marks removed.

Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for
publication on the APRICOT website.

Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots
will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC may,
at their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final
submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely,
important, or of critical operational importance. Every year we turn
away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots
before the deadline. Presenters should endeavour to get material to
the PC sooner rather than later.

For any questions or concerns, please email the PC Chairs.

We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.

Mark Tinka, Tugsorshikh Badarch & Marijana Novakovic
Co-Chairs, APRICOT 2022 Programme Committee
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Re: [Community-Discuss] Update on legal case - Freeze of Bank accounts

2021-10-15 Thread Mark Tinka

Agreed - but I am confident that Eddy and the team have all of this
already considered.

Mark.

On 10/15/21 17:09, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:

Very good news!

I don’t know how these things work in Mauritius courts, but it will be
good to ask that all the legal expenses are borne by the other party.

In addition to that, I believe AFRINIC must ask for image damages and
compensation for the troubles created by the accounts freezing,
because clearly this has been a reckless claim.

This is the only way to also show to others that the rules have to be
followed and litigation is not the way to escape from rules.

Regards,

Jordi

@jordipalet

El 15/10/21 13:04, "Eddy Kayihura" escribió:

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the message below that was shared with our members.

Kind Regards

Eddy Kayihura M.

Chief Executive Officer

African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) Ltd.

t: +230 403 51 00 | tt: @afrinic | https://www.afrinic.net |
youtube.com/afrinicmedia

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Begin forwarded message:

*From: *Eddy Kayihura

*Subject: [members-discuss] Update on legal case - Freeze of Bank
accounts*

*Date: *15 October 2021 at 14:53:03 GMT+4

*To: *AfriNIC Discuss

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to inform our stakeholders that there was a court
hearing today with regard to our application for removal of the
freezing order against AFRINIC.

The Court, after considering our application and the case
initiated by Cloud Innovation Ltd, has declared the order null and
void. In short, AFRINIC has won this case against Cloud Innovation
Ltd.

There is another Appeal to be heard on 11^th November 2021. We
will keep you informed of the outcome and we are quietly
optimistic that justice will prevail.

Kind Regards,

Eddy Kayihura

Chief Executive Officer

African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC)

c...@afrinic.net

…...

Chers Collègues,

Nous sommes heureux de vous informer qu'une audience a eu lieu
aujourd'hui au tribunal concernant notre demande de levée de
l'ordonnance de gel des comptes d'AFRINIC.

Le tribunal, après avoir examiné notre demande et l'affaire
initiée par Cloud Innovation Ltd, a déclaré l'ordonnance nulle et
non avenue. En bref, AFRINIC a gagné ce procès contre Cloud
Innovation Ltd.

Un autre appel doit être entendu le 11 novembre 2021. Nous vous
tiendrons informés du dénouement et nous sommes optimistes quant à
la justice.

Cordialement,

Eddy Kayihura

Directeur général

Le Centre d'information du réseau africain

c...@afrinic.net

……...

زملائي الاعزاء،

يسعدنا إبلاغ أصحاب المصلحة لدينا أنه كانت هناك جلسة استماع اليوم
فيما يتعلق بطلبنا لإزالة أمر التجميد ضد AFRINIC.

أعلنت المحكمة ، بعد النظر في طلبنا والقضية التي رفعتها شركة Cloud
Innovation Ltd ، أن الأمر باطل ولاغٍ. باختصار ، فازت AFRINIC
بقضيتها ضد Cloud Innovation Ltd.

هناك نداء آخر سيتم الاستماع إليه في 11 نوفمبر. سنبقيك على اطلاع
بالنتيجة ونحن متفائلون بهدوء بأن العدالة ستسود.

AFRINIC للاتصالات

Caros colegas,

Temos o prazer de informar as nossas partes interessadas de que
houve hoje uma audiência judicial relativamente ao nosso pedido de
retirada da ordem de congelamento contra a AFRINIC.

O Tribunal, após considerar o nosso pedido e o processo iniciado
pela Cloud Innovation Ltd, declarou a ordem nula e sem efeito. Em
suma, a AFRINIC ganhou o seu processo contra a Cloud Innovation Ltd.

Há outro recurso a ser ouvido a 11 de Novembro de 2021.
Manter-vos-emos

Re: [Community-Discuss] Update on legal case - Freeze of Bank accounts

2021-10-15 Thread Mark Tinka

Slowly by slowly, we shall undress the evil tyrants.

Mark.

On 10/15/21 16:48, cheikhmab mabrouk via Community-Discuss wrote:

Great news and congratulations

Best Regards.
Cheikh Boubey

Le vendredi 15 octobre 2021, 12:14:58 UTC, Evelyn Namara
a écrit :

This is incredible news!

I commend the AFRINIC legal team and AFRINIC leadership that has kept
the community informed throughout the process.

This is a big win!

Kind Regards,

Evelyn

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 2:01 PM Eddy Kayihura wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the message below that was shared with our members.
--

Kind Regards

Eddy Kayihura M.
Chief Executive Officer
African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) Ltd.

t: +230 403 51 00 | tt: @afrinic | https://www.afrinic.net |
youtube.com/afrinicmedia
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Begin forwarded message:

*From: *Eddy Kayihura
*Subject: **[members-discuss] Update on legal case - Freeze of
Bank accounts*
*Date: *15 October 2021 at 14:53:03 GMT+4
*To: *AfriNIC Discuss

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to inform our stakeholders that there was a court
hearing today with regard to our application for removal of the
freezing order against AFRINIC.

The Court, after considering our application and the case
initiated by Cloud Innovation Ltd, has declared the order null
and void. In short, AFRINIC has won this case against Cloud
Innovation Ltd.

There is another Appeal to be heard on 11thNovember 2021. We will
keep you informed of the outcome and we are quietly optimistic
that justice will prevail.

Kind Regards,

Eddy Kayihura
Chief Executive Officer
African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC)
c...@afrinic.net

…...

Chers Collègues,

Nous sommes heureux de vous informer qu'une audience a eu lieu
aujourd'hui au tribunal concernant notre demande de levée de
l'ordonnance de gel des comptes d'AFRINIC.

Un autre appel doit être entendu le 11 novembre 2021. Nous vous
tiendrons informés du dénouement et nous sommes optimistes quant
à la justice.

Cordialement,

Eddy Kayihura
Directeur général
Le Centre d'information du réseau africain
c...@afrinic.net
……...

زملائي الاعزاء،

يسعدنا إبلاغ أصحاب المصلحة لدينا أنه كانت هناك جلسة استماع اليوم
فيما يتعلق بطلبنا لإزالة أمر التجميد ضد AFRINIC.

هناك نداء آخر سيتم الاستماع إليه في 11 نوفمبر. سنبقيك على اطلاع
بالنتيجة ونحن متفائلون بهدوء بأن العدالة ستسود.

AFRINIC للاتصالات

Caros colegas,

Temos o prazer de informar as nossas partes interessadas de que
houve hoje uma audiência judicial relativamente ao nosso pedido
de retirada da ordem de congelamento contra a AFRINIC.

Há outro recurso a ser ouvido a 11 de Novembro de 2021.
Manter-vos-emos informados sobre o resultado e estamos
tranquilamente optimistas de que a justiça prevalecerá.

Cumprimentos,

Eddy

Re: [Community-Discuss] Update on legal case - Freeze of Bank accounts

2021-10-15 Thread Mark Tinka

Step, by step...

Mark.

On 10/15/21 12:56, Eddy Kayihura wrote:

Dear Colleagues,

Please see the message below that was shared with our members.
--

Kind Regards

Eddy Kayihura M.
Chief Executive Officer
African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) Ltd.

t: +230 403 51 00 | tt: @afrinic | https://www.afrinic.net |
youtube.com/afrinicmedia

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Begin forwarded message:

*From: *Eddy Kayihura
*Subject: **[members-discuss] Update on legal case - Freeze of Bank
accounts*

*Date: *15 October 2021 at 14:53:03 GMT+4
*To: *AfriNIC Discuss

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to inform our stakeholders that there was a court
hearing today with regard to our application for removal of the
freezing order against AFRINIC.

The Court, after considering our application and the case initiated
by Cloud Innovation Ltd, has declared the order null and void. In
short, AFRINIC has won this case against Cloud Innovation Ltd.

There is another Appeal to be heard on 11thNovember 2021. We will
keep you informed of the outcome and we are quietly optimistic that
justice will prevail.

Kind Regards,

Eddy Kayihura
Chief Executive Officer
African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC)
c...@afrinic.net

…...

Chers Collègues,

Nous sommes heureux de vous informer qu'une audience a eu lieu
aujourd'hui au tribunal concernant notre demande de levée de
l'ordonnance de gel des comptes d'AFRINIC.

Le tribunal, après avoir examiné notre demande et l'affaire initiée
par Cloud Innovation Ltd, a déclaré l'ordonnance nulle et non avenue.
En bref, AFRINIC a gagné ce procès contre Cloud Innovation Ltd.

Un autre appel doit être entendu le 11 novembre 2021. Nous vous
tiendrons informés du dénouement et nous sommes optimistes quant à la
justice.

Cordialement,

Eddy Kayihura
Directeur général
Le Centre d'information du réseau africain
c...@afrinic.net
……...

زملائي الاعزاء،

يسعدنا إبلاغ أصحاب المصلحة لدينا أنه كانت هناك جلسة استماع اليوم فيما
يتعلق بطلبنا لإزالة أمر التجميد ضد AFRINIC.

هناك نداء آخر سيتم الاستماع إليه في 11 نوفمبر. سنبقيك على اطلاع
بالنتيجة ونحن متفائلون بهدوء بأن العدالة ستسود.

AFRINIC للاتصالات

Caros colegas,

Temos o prazer de informar as nossas partes interessadas de que houve
hoje uma audiência judicial relativamente ao nosso pedido de retirada
da ordem de congelamento contra a AFRINIC.

O Tribunal, após considerar o nosso pedido e o processo iniciado pela
Cloud Innovation Ltd, declarou a ordem nula e sem efeito. Em suma, a
AFRINIC ganhou o seu processo contra a Cloud Innovation Ltd.

Há outro recurso a ser ouvido a 11 de Novembro de 2021.
Manter-vos-emos informados sobre o resultado e estamos tranquilamente
optimistas de que a justiça prevalecerá.

Cumprimentos,

Eddy Kayihura
Chefe do Executivo
O Centro de Informação da Rede Africana
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Values: EPIC (■ Excellence ■ Passion ■ Integrity ■ Community Driven)

[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-6 - Eddy Kayihura, AFRINIC CEO, Speaking Shortly

2021-09-28 Thread Mark Tinka


Hi all.

As per subject:

https://safnog.org/virtual-meetings/agenda.html

Please join. Thanks.

Mark.
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Re: [Community-Discuss] Lu Heng + Larus and the Number Resource Society

2021-09-23 Thread Mark Tinka





On 9/23/21 20:55, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:


Owen, take some free advice. Stop saying stupid stuff. You don't have
a lot of credibility left to lose, but its just a waste of bandwidth to
say stuff that can so easily be disproven.  The following was already
posted here as being part of a message sent by a Larus minion:


That's a blatant and obvious attempt to scare people, and to spread FUD.


When you work with (and sit behind) computers long enough, more so in a 
year where we haven't seen each other due to what we all know, it's not 
unusual for one to develop a god-like complex, and equate people, their 
intellect, soul and mind, to the way in which they interact with those 
very same computers.


It's great to be "logical" and "sensible", but people, for better or 
worse, have never been, and will never be, that binary.


As you say, there isn't any trust capital left to lose. I would say, 
"there isn't any trust capital left, period".


When all this dust settles and the trees have shaken all their leaves, 
it will be a world of pain, because all of the good people of the 
Internet who are being reduced to binary equations by all of this 
time-wasting, degrading, livelihood-risking actions, will have memories 
the length of the Nile.


Mark.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Lu Heng + Larus and the Number Resource Society

2021-09-23 Thread Mark Tinka




On 9/23/21 23:41, Noah wrote:


Owen,

Are you Lu Heng? I am addressing Lu Heng and he knows exactly what I 
am talking about.


Let Lu Heng ask and I will perfectly and accurately backup my claim 
about the misinformation he is employing through his Number Resource 
Society beyond just those subtle emails his staff are sending to members.


The day will come, when these actors will find themselves out in the 
cold, needing shelter and cloth from "their fellow" brothers and sisters.


As my Grade 6 English teacher taught me, in constructing future perfect 
tenses, "It will have been a very cold day, indeed".


Mark.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Lu Heng + Larus and the Number Resource Society

2021-09-23 Thread Mark Tinka





On 9/23/21 21:00, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:


Yet another anonymous gmail sock puppet, spewing the Lu Heng party line.

Swell.  Just what we needed.

Go away now Mr. Cheken Chetty.  Please crawl back into whatever hole Lu Heng
conjured you out of.  Nobody is impressed.


It's a pity Lu Heng is unable to speak, for himself.

Or is it?

Mark.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Lu Heng + Larus and the Number Resource Society

2021-09-23 Thread Mark Tinka


Even though I do, I have no words...

Mark.

On 9/23/21 17:41, Nigel Kukard via Community-Discuss wrote:

On 9/23/21 14:59, Mark Tinka wrote:


On 9/23/21 14:34, Noah wrote:


Hi Lu Heng

A number of ISPs and Afrinic resource members across the region are
receiving phone calls from your organisation called the number
resource society.

The people making the phone calls are mostly spreading misinformation
about AFRINIC.

I am calling you out specifically so that perhaps you as the patron
of Larus which is affiliated with the Number Resource Society can
address the motive behind this calls and emails that are being sent
to various AFRINIC resource members scaring them that AFRINIC is
closing down and they must join the so called Number Resource Society.

I have been pestered, twice in the past week, as per attached.

Despite just sending these to the bin, I am disgusted.

Hopefully, Larus and them are on this list, so they know that I can't
be asked.


Yep  attached another one.

-N

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Lu Heng + Larus and the Number Resource Society

2021-09-23 Thread Mark Tinka




On 9/23/21 14:34, Noah wrote:


Hi Lu Heng

A number of ISPs and Afrinic resource members across the region are 
receiving phone calls from your organisation called the number 
resource society.


The people making the phone calls are mostly spreading misinformation 
about AFRINIC.


I am calling you out specifically so that perhaps you as the patron of 
Larus which is affiliated with the Number Resource Society can address 
the motive behind this calls and emails that are being sent to various 
AFRINIC resource members scaring them that AFRINIC is closing down and 
they must join the so called Number Resource Society.


I have been pestered, twice in the past week, as per attached.

Despite just sending these to the bin, I am disgusted.

Hopefully, Larus and them are on this list, so they know that I can't be 
asked.


Mark.
--- Begin Message ---
Dear Mr. Tinka , 



I had a conversation with one of your Rep in Mauritius , Mr.Jason , and he 
referred me to you in regards to IPv4 Address.



Grateful if you could revert back to me.



Thanks

Harvin





 On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:14:49 +0400 Harvin Appadoo  
wrote 


Dear Mr.Tinka , 



Hope this email finds you well. I am Harvin , from LARUS Limited. 











I would like to introduce our Services to your Esteem Organization. 



We are a Global Company specialized in IP Management Services , and our core 
business is IPv4 address leasing.  



We provide the below Services : 



 - Leasing of IPv4 Addresses , with competitive pricing , and delpoyment 
within 48hrs.



-  Customizable IP addresses solution



-  Risk less IP source from /24 to /16.











-       No Membership Fees to access our leasing facilities.



We carry out global Geo-location of IPs from any part of the world. 



On the other hand, the contract periods that we handle for the rental of IPv4 
addresses rank between 1month to 8 years, up to the duration of your project. 



Much grateful if you could let me know if you have any IPv4 requirements . 



We can also schedule a Zoom meeting at your most convenience , where we can 
discuss further in details and propose to SEACOM more about our services.



Looking forward to hear from you . 



Kind Regards




Harvin Appadoo 

Senior Consultant  

 LARUS Limited



WhatsApp - +230 52516820









Email  mailto:h.appa...@larus.net

Mobile/WhatsApp tel:+85251338196230 52516820  Office  tel:+852+29888918 



Address  Flat A3 11/F, TML Tower, Tsuen Wan, N.T, HONG KONG SAR

Website : https://www.larus.net/ / https://i.lease/--- End Message ---
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[Community-Discuss] Fwd: [safnog] Reminder: SAFNOG-6 Virtual Conference

2021-09-20 Thread Mark Tinka

FYI.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[safnog] Reminder: SAFNOG-6 Virtual Conference
Date:   Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:23:37 +0200
From:   SAFNOG Conference 
To: saf...@lists.safnog.org

Hello Everyone,

SAFNOG-6 Virtual Conference is just one week away!

This is a reminder to join us for SAFNOG's sixth annual meeting, 
SAFNOG-6 Virtual Conference 
 next week 
on the 27 and 28 September at 13h00 SAST/ 11h00 UTC.

Don't miss this opportunity to engage with and learn from our industry 
experts such as our *keynote speaker*, *Eddy Kayihura from AFRINIC.*  
Visit https://safnog.org/virtual-meetings/agenda 
 for the full agenda.

We are grateful to our SAFNOG-6 sponsors, Akamai, FLEXOPTIX, Team Cymru, 
Africa Data Centres, Internet Society, Workonline, INX-ZA and NAPAfrica 
for their support.

Register now: https://safnog.org/virtual-meetings/ 

Regards,
SAFNOG OC
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Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: [members-discuss] Unsolicited Requests

2021-06-01 Thread Mark Tinka





On 6/1/21 08:03, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:


Spam is largely or entirely duplicative, and essentially always machine
generated.


I disagree.

Spam is spam, regardless of whether it was human- or machine-generated.

Mark.

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[Community-Discuss] Fwd: [apops] APRICOT 2021 call for presentations reminder

2021-01-19 Thread Mark Tinka

FYI.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[apops] APRICOT 2021 call for presentations reminder
Date:   Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:59:19 +1000
From:   Philip Smith 
Organization:   Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Operational Technologies
To: ap...@apops.net

Hi everyone,

This is a short reminder that the call for papers for APRICOT 2021 is 
still open and the PC is eagerly awaiting your presentation or tutorial 
proposals. Please do not wait until the last minute, as the PC is 
filling the programme on a first-come first-served basis.

Please submit on-line at:

http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=128

Note that APRICOT 2021 is a virtual event, entirely on-line.

Because of this, the PC will only accept Peering and IXP Personals prior 
to the event starting. Submissions must be of a single slide listing the 
operator's PeeringDB entry. Please use the form at 
https://2021.apricot.net/program/peering-personals/ to submit your 
Peering or IXP Personal for APRICOT 2021.

Thanks!

philip
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Re: [Community-Discuss] [afnog] Updates on the misappropriation of IPv4 resources

2021-01-05 Thread Mark Tinka




On 12/25/20 06:33, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:


As regards to your "network freeze" I have no idea what that means.


https://lmgtfy.app/?q=what+is+a+network+freezehttps://lmgtfy.app/?q=what+is+a+network+freezehttps://bfy.tw/Q40g

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[Community-Discuss] Fwd: [apnic-talk] APRICOT 2021 call for presentations

2020-12-16 Thread Mark Tinka

FYI.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[apnic-talk] APRICOT 2021 call for presentations
Date:   Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:52:26 +1000
From:   Philip Smith 
Organization:   PFS Internet Development Pty Ltd
To: apnic-t...@lists.apnic.net
CC: APRICOT PC Chairs 

Hi everyone,

As I mentioned last week when I sent out the Call for Volunteers for the 
APRICOT PC, APRICOT 2021 will be online in February next year. Same 
dates as we had planned for the in-person meeting.

I've included the call for presentations below - looking forward to 
receiving your presentation proposals!

Thanks!

philip
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CALL FOR PAPERS
===

The APRICOT 2021 Programme Committee is now seeking contributions for
Presentations and Tutorials for the APRICOT 2021 Conference.

We are looking for presenters who would:

- Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;
- Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;
- Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics;

Please submit on-line at:

http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=128

Tutorials will take place during the week of 22nd February.
Conference sessions and the Peering Forum will take place on the week
of 1st March. All APRICOT 2021 sessions times will be one hour long,
with up to four sessions scheduled per day.

CONFERENCE MILESTONES
-

Call for Papers Opens: Now
Draft Program Published: As Papers Confirmed
Final Deadline for Submissions: 7 February 2021
Final Program Published: 14 February 2021
Final Slides Received: 21 February 2021

*SLOTS ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS, REGARDLESS OF
PUBLISHED DEADLINES*

PROGRAMME CONTENT
-

The APRICOT Conference Programme consists of three parts, these being
Tutorials, the Peering Forum, and Conference Sessions.

Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies:

- IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and Operations
- Internet backbone operations
- Peering, Interconnects and IXPs
- Network Function Virtualisaton
- Network Automation/Programming
- Content Distribution Network technology & operations
- Research on Internet Operations and Deployment
- Network infrastructure security
- IPv6 deployment on fixed and Wireless/Cellular networks
- DNS / DNSSEC
- Access and Transport Technologies, including Cable/DSL, LTE/5G,
wireless, metro ethernet, fibre, segment routing
- Content & Service Delivery and "Cloud Computing"

PEERING FORUM
-

Due to APRICOT 2021 being held online, the PC will only accept Peering
Personals prior to the event starting. Submissions must be of a
single slide listing the operator's PeeringDB entry. Please refer to
https://tinyurl.com/y46954n5 for how to create a successful Peering
Personal presentation.

CfP SUBMISSION
--

Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be
provided with CfP submissions otherwise the submission will be
rejected immediately. For work in progress, the most current
information available at time of submission is acceptable.

All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only.
Slides must be of original work, with all company confidential marks
removed.

Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for
publication on the APRICOT website.

Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots
will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC may,
at their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final
submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely,
important, or of critical operational importance. Every year we turn
away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots
before the deadline. Presenters should endeavour to get material into
the PC sooner rather than later.

Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme
Committee by e-mail at:

pc-chairs at apricot.net

We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.

Mark Tinka, Marijana Novakovic & Philip Smith
Co-Chairs, APRICOT 2021 Programme Committee
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[Community-Discuss] Fwd: [apnic-talk] APRICOT 2021 PC call for volunteers

2020-11-13 Thread Mark Tinka

FYI.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[apnic-talk] APRICOT 2021 PC call for volunteers
Date:   Thu, 12 Nov 2020 20:37:10 +1000
From:   Philip Smith 
Reply-To:   APRICOT PC Chairs 
Organization:   PFS Internet Development Pty Ltd
To: apnic-t...@lists.apnic.net
CC: APRICOT PC Chairs 

Hi everyone,

As you will no doubt be aware, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, APRICOT 
2021 has moved on-line.  It will still be hosted, as planned, by PhNOG, 
the Philippine Network Operator Group. The new format means a reduction 
in the schedule but retaining the high quality and high relevancy of the 
content offered over the years.

The APRICOT 2021 Programme Committee is responsible for the solicitation 
and selection of suitable presentation and tutorial content for the 
APRICOT 2021 conference (https://2021.apricot.net/).

The APRICOT PC Chairs are now seeking nominations from the community to 
join the APRICOT 2021 PC to assist with the development of the programme 
for APRICOT 2021.

Eligible PC candidates are those who have attended APRICOT conferences 
in the recent past, have broad technical knowledge of Internet 
operations, and have reasonable familiarity with the format of APRICOT 
conferences.  Having constructive opinions and ideas about how the 
programme content might be improved is of high value too.  PC members 
are expected to work actively to solicit content and review submissions 
for technical merit.  The PC meets by conference call, weekly in 
frequency during the three months prior to APRICOT.

If you are interested in joining the PC and meet the above eligibility 
criteria, please send a brief note to "pc-chairs at apricot.net".  The 
note should include affiliation (if any) and contact details (including 
e-mail address), and a brief description of why you would make a good 
addition to the PC.

The PC Chairs will accept nominations received by 17:00 UTC+8 on Monday 
23rd November 2020, and will announce the new PC shortly thereafter.

Many thanks!

Mark Tinka, Marijana Novakovic & Philip Smith
APRICOT 2021 PC Chairs
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Re: [Community-Discuss] Cloud Innovation Displays Very Poor, If Not Criminal, Netizenship

2020-05-29 Thread Mark Tinka

On 29/May/20 05:17, Paul Wollner wrote:

> In light of the accusations that have been made on 8 May, I feel that
> SEACOM neglected their duty to remove these objects when the client's
> contract came to an end. As the ISP created the records in the first
> place, the records should have been updated or deleted by them too.
> This shows poor corporate governance by SEACOM and it is ironic that
> their own employee in charge of these duties wished to make this
> public in an attempt to place blame elsewhere whilst the incompetence
> lies largely, if not solely, with SEACOM.

Not to state the obvious, but IRR objects do not create eBGP sessions -
people with beating hearts create BGP sessions.

> I was the person who created the objects in the respective databases,
> however I was no longer in the employment of SEACOM when Cloud
> Innovation's contract came to an end and hence no longer had rights to
> the route objects.

That may very well be so, Paul, but the RADB entry did not create
itself. And no one from SEACOM (present or past) asked anyone at Hutch
to create that entry in RADB.

> It is now almost a month later and the amount of resources wasted on
> dealing with this issue when it could have been resolved quickly and
> safely by the relevant parties is astounding and personally quite
> unsettling. This matter should be put to rest now. As a global
> community we are dealing with far bigger issues and we should be
> putting our efforts towards the greater good, not petty infighting
> fueled by drama and misinformation.

On the contrary. The community need to understand that this isn't an
issue that RPKI can protect against in its current form, and that we
should do everything we can to avoid such issues from every
re-surfacing, as today it's affecting SEACOM, but tomorrow, it's
affecting another operator.

Don't know what's more important - within our community - than a safer,
more secure, Internet.

Mark.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Cloud Innovation Displays Very Poor, If Not Criminal, Netizenship

2020-05-29 Thread Mark Tinka

On 29/May/20 05:17, Paul Wollner wrote:

>
> In light of the accusations that have been made on 8 May, I feel that
> SEACOM neglected their duty to remove these objects when the client's
> contract came to an end. As the ISP created the records in the first
> place, the records should have been updated or deleted by them too.
> This shows poor corporate governance by SEACOM and it is ironic that
> their own employee in charge of these duties wished to make this
> public in an attempt to place blame elsewhere whilst the incompetence
> lies largely, if not solely, with SEACOM.

Not to state the obvious, but IRR objects do not create eBGP sessions -
people with beating hearts create BGP sessions.

>
> I was the person who created the objects in the respective databases,
> however I was no longer in the employment of SEACOM when Cloud
> Innovation's contract came to an end and hence no longer had rights to
> the route objects.

That may very well be so, Paul, but the RADB entry did not create
itself. And no one from SEACOM (present or past) asked anyone at Hutch
to create that entry in RADB.

>
> It is now almost a month later and the amount of resources wasted on
> dealing with this issue when it could have been resolved quickly and
> safely by the relevant parties is astounding and personally quite
> unsettling. This matter should be put to rest now. As a global
> community we are dealing with far bigger issues and we should be
> putting our efforts towards the greater good, not petty infighting
> fueled by drama and misinformation.

On the contrary. The community need to understand that this isn't an
issue that RPKI can protect against in its current form, and that we
should do everything we can to avoid such issues from every
re-surfacing, as today it's affecting SEACOM, but tomorrow, it's
affecting another operator.

Don't know what's more important - within our community - than a safer,
more secure, Internet.

Mark.

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[Community-Discuss] Cloud Innovation Displays Very Poor, If Not Criminal, Netizenship

2020-05-08 Thread Mark Tinka

Hi all.

I'm not one to b**ch & moan in public, but per subject, I could not let
this one slide.

And if you get this from multiple mailing lists, apologies for that -
I'm just trying to make sure that this reaches as wide an audience as
possible, on the continent.

SEACOM (AS37100) acquired MacroLan (AS37353) a couple of years ago.
MacroLan is now part of the SEACOM family, and while we are in the
process of integrating that network into AS37100, some existing services
continue to be delivered on AS37353 until that exercise is completed.

One of the customers that AS37353 was providing services to was Cloud
Innovation, in Cape Town. From a routing perspective, because Cloud
Innovation had no AS number for this service, all of their IP address
space was being originated by AS37353, on their behalf.

In December of 2019, AS37353 ceased providing services to Cloud
Innovation. That is 6 months ago.

In recent days, it came to SEACOM's attention that some of Cloud
Innovation's IP address space was being originated by AS37353 -
specifically, 156.241.3.0/24 - even though we were sure that they were
no longer a customer of AS37353 since December of 2019. At first, we
thought this was a cached entry in a number of popular looking glasses,
but then every looking glass had the same entry, which made this an
unlikely bug.

As of yesterday afternoon, see below what Telia's looking glass was
saying about this prefix:

*

Path #1: Received by speaker 0
  4809 134190 37353
    2.255.249.42 (metric 2134) from 2.255.253.101 (80.91.242.40)
  Origin incomplete, localpref 200, valid, internal, best,
group-best, import-candidate
Communities:

1299:431
    (RPKI state Unknown)

1299:1000 1299:3 1299:30600 23456:20413 45352:4500 45352:9204

*

But when I run a traceroute from my house to that prefix, it clearly was
not ending up in Cape Town, where AS37353's main operation resides:

*

MacBook-Pro-7:~ tinka$ traceroute -I 156.241.3.1
traceroute to 156.241.3.1 (156.241.3.1), 64 hops max, 72 byte packets
 1  172.16.0.254 (172.16.0.254)  14.824 ms  11.522 ms  3.525 ms
 2  xe-1-3-0-1064.er-01-jnb.za.seacomnet.com (105.22.37.13)  5.620 ms 
9.714 ms  9.887 ms
 3  ce-0-2-0-0.cr-02-jnb.za.seacomnet.com (105.16.28.2)  175.232 ms 
172.699 ms  175.896 ms
 4  xe-0-0-0-8.cr-02-cpt.za.seacomnet.com (105.16.9.182)  164.496 ms 
163.578 ms  163.546 ms
 5  105.16.14.153 (105.16.14.153)  169.812 ms  171.272 ms  177.115 ms
 6  xe-0-0-0-0.br-02-lhr.uk.seacomnet.com (105.16.34.253)  168.911 ms 
172.958 ms  165.165 ms
 7  82.112.115.169 (82.112.115.169)  172.700 ms  176.482 ms  174.375 ms
 8  ae-17.r05.londen12.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.147)  672.099 ms 
613.617 ms  615.109 ms
 9  ae-2.r24.londen12.uk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.244)  181.952 ms 
183.087 ms  187.302 ms
10  ae-16.r20.frnkge13.de.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.13)  190.511 ms 
185.579 ms  187.058 ms
11  ae-3.r20.sngpsi07.sg.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.17)  520.882 ms 
613.982 ms  615.275 ms
12  ae-9.r24.tkokhk01.hk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.7.67)  612.301 ms 
586.886 ms  436.711 ms
13  ae-1.r03.tkokhk01.hk.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.6.98)  614.470 ms 
613.416 ms  614.281 ms
14  ce-0-3-0-3.r03.tkokhk01.hk.ce.gin.ntt.net (203.131.241.126)  614.128
ms  613.661 ms  615.416 ms
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  156.241.3.1 (156.241.3.1)  494.400 ms  410.180 ms *
MacBook-Pro-7:~ tinka$

*

So we, then, realized that this was a fraudulent use of MacroLan's
AS37353, to which we had given no express permission.

As luck would have it, due to my days living and working in Malaysia, I
know the good folk that operate AS134190 (IPDC Solutions), who was the
upstream providing transit for this prefix. So I rang them up yesterday
afternoon, told them what was happening, and within the hour, they got
that eBGP session shutdown. I am most grateful to them for their quick
response and immediate understanding of what was going on. Even with all
the technology we have today, it, many times, comes down to having good
friends in good places.

Anyway, it turns out the ISP that had acquired this prefix from Cloud
Innovation is based in Manila, Philippines. When IPDC delivered their
transit service to them in Manila, that ISP informed them that they
should use AS37353 for the eBGP session. Yes, one could argue that IPDC
should have done their checks to ensure that the AS number being
provided by their customer belongs to them, but to be honest, I'm not
too bothered about that compared to Cloud Innovation's thinking that it
was okay to use another network's AS number in order to deliver their
services to their customers.

IPDC confirm that this service was activated for the Manila ISP in
December of 2019, right around the time Cloud Innovation's service with
SEACOM, in Cape Town, ended.

As it currently stands, the ISP in Manila is now off the Internet, with
some 12 paying customers currently without service. Their excuse - they
do not have an AS number of their own.

IPDC tried to find out why the ISP in

[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-6: Deferred - Coronavirus (COVID-19)

2020-03-29 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

As you are aware, the world is facing the ongoing challenge of the
spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), which has had a material impact on
a number of local, regional and global events and businesses across
various industries.

Unfortunately, the preparation for SAFNOG-6, initially scheduled for the
September, 2020, has not been spared, as the pandemic has made
logistical planning uncertain amongst our sponsors, supporters and
venues. To this end, we have made the rather difficult, but responsible,
decision to defer the SAFNOG-6 meeting to 20th - 22nd September, 2021,
in order to ensure that safety and health comes first.

SAFNOG would also like to take this opportunity to encourage its and
other Network Operators Groups members to actively use and increase
their participation on this and other mailing lists around the world, as
the learning and engagement process never ends; and in fact, is probably
more crucial in these times. The operational community can continue to
exist successfully even throughout this period of social distancing.

We look forward to seeing you all in the near future, and wish you
continued good health and care.

Mark Tinka
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Re: [Community-Discuss] A personal note

2020-02-04 Thread Mark Tinka

Good man.

You have my undying support, Mr. Kayihura.

Mark.

On 4/Feb/20 21:32, Sami Salih wrote:
> Thank you Boss for those words, I feel that it's comes from a honest
> heart, I I'm sure the community got the same feeling. Be sure all of
> us share the same story with slight difference, for me I was first
> time invited for 2009 meeting in SA, then we organized the first IG in
> Sudan, and we success to reach 30% IPv6 traffic in the REN network.
> AFRINIC means a lot for us, and to our local community, so any type of
> support you need please just let us know and we will never hide.
>
> once again thank you for this kind message, and wish you all the best.
>
> Sami Salih,
> Community Member. 
>
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>
> 
> *From:* Eddy Kayihura 
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 4, 2020 9:47:20 PM
> *To:* community-discuss@afrinic.net 
> *Subject:* [Community-Discuss] A personal note
>  
>
> Dear Colleagues, ( French version below)
>
> One day in April 2006, I was informed by Rwandatel CTO that I would
> attend an AFRINIC meeting in Nairobi as our company had received a
> fellowship from them. This intrigued me because I did not understand
> why our IP provider was willing to sponsor a trip for a member for no
> apparent reason.
>
> Not only did I not find any catch but I discovered a community that I
> had no clue existed. I heard of IPv6 for the first time and later
> registered for a course which happened at AFRINIC 9 in Balaclava,
> Mauritius. This connection together with the AfNog one helped me grow
> quickly in the networking field.
>
> Back home, many colleagues attended AFRINIC and AfNog events and we
> started seeing scalable network and systems managed by young Rwandans.
>
> 14 years later, Afrinic has evolved in many ways and is still around
> committed to its mission of supporting Internet technology usage and
> development in Africa.
>
> I have grown over the years to become AFRINIC’s CEO. The large number
> of support messages I have received since it happened has been very
> humbling and demonstrates the fact that AFRINIC is dear to the hearts
> of many people all over the world.
>
> AFRINIC has had more than its fair share of ups and downs and
> challenges over the years. However, there are inspiring stories of its
> positive contributions and impact in many countries. It continues to
> play a fundamentally important role in Internet development across
> Africa and the Indian Ocean region.
>
> During my few weeks in office, I have endeavored  with the team on
> analysing and identifying all key focus areas from the feedback we
> have received from our membership and community.
>
> The key focus areas include:
>
> - Restoring the accuracy of the database and enhancing membership
> experience.
>
> - Delivering on promises of major technical products and projects
> anticipated by our membership and community.
>
> - Building, developing and maintaining our community through providing
> capacity building, research and engagement opportunities.
>
> - Restructuring a cohesive and efficient team that will deliver on all
> the above and more.
>
> I would like to commend the team’s resilience and dedication over the
> years and I am a firm believer that our success will not be attainable
> without the involvement of each of us. As a member-based organisation
> and a community-driven organisation, the support of our members and
> community is also vital to our triumph as a whole.
>
> I will be giving a monthly update on the progress we make on the
> different areas and we welcome your suggestions, support and
> constructive feedback as we travel this journey together.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Eddy
>
>
> *
>
> Chers Collegues, (votre indulgence pour les accents et potentielles
> fautes d'ortographes est appreciee)
>
> Par un jour normal en 2006, le CTO de Rwandatel m'a informé que je
> participerai à une reunion d'AFRINIC à Nairobi et qu'ils prennait tout
> en charge. Je fus intrigué car ne comprenant pas pourquoi notre
> fournisseur d'adresse IP serait si genereuse.
>
> Je n'ai cependant trouve aucun piège. Bien plus, j'ai plutôt decouvert
> une communauté dont j'ignorai totalement l'existence. J'ai entendu
> parler de IPv6 pour la premiere fois et me suis enregistré pour un
> cours qui a eu lieu lors de AFRINIC 9 a Balaclava en ile Maurice.
> Cette connection ainsi qu'avec AfNog m'a aide a progresser rapidement
> dans le domaine de la connectivite.
>
> Au pays, plusieurs collegues ont participé aux réunions d'AFRINIC et
> AfNog et nous avons commencé à voir de jeunes rwandais gerant des
> reseaux et systèmes bien configuré.
>
> 14 annees plus tard, Afrinic a evolué de plusieurs maniere tout en
> restant fidele à sa mission de soutenir l'usage et le developpement
> des technologies de l'Internet.
>
> J'ai aussi progressé jusqu'à en devenir le Directeur Général. Les
> inombrables messages de soutien que

[Community-Discuss] APRICOT 2020: Call for Papers Reminder - Few Slots Still Available!

2020-01-14 Thread Mark Tinka

Hi all.

Just a gentle reminder that the APRICOT 2020 agenda still has a few
slots left available, and the program committee would be keen to receive
great papers to fill them up.

You can find more details about the Call for Papers and submission
details here:

    https://2020.apricot.net/program/call-for-paper/

We look forward to hearing from you. Thanks.

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[Community-Discuss] APRICOT 2020: Call for Papers Reminder - We Are Still Open!

2019-12-17 Thread Mark Tinka

Hi all.

Just a gentle reminder that the APRICOT 2020 Call for Papers is still
open, and that the Program Committee are still looking for good content
for the meeting.

You can find more details about the Call for Papers here and submission
details here:

    https://2020.apricot.net/program/call-for-paper/

We would like to remind you to kindly submit your proposals now in order
to improve your chances of being assured of a slot in the agenda.

We look forward to hearing from you. Thanks.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] The Looting of AFRINIC

2019-12-06 Thread Mark Tinka



On 6/Dec/19 15:42, Omo Oaiya wrote:
>
> Now, I am sure you are deliberately trying to be sensational :-).   Don’t 
> detract from the usefulness of your efforts with the hounding.
>
> Sunday already gave you good advice.   These are questions for AFRINIC the 
> company rather than AFRINIC the community.Send such questions to the CEO 
> and keep the community in the loop.   I speak for myself but I am sure 
> everyone is interested in the outcome.

Good advice is, clearly, hard to take.

Mark.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] The Looting of AFRINIC

2019-12-05 Thread Mark Tinka

I don't disagree with that either.

I am certain AFRINIC are working on this, and I know there will be no
shortage of queries about this from the field, much to our
already-clogged e-mail boxes. I don't want to do the jobs of others; no
one is doing mine for me.

My preferred current focus - your last paragraph, below.

Mark.

On 5/Dec/19 14:46, Mike Silber wrote:
> Be that as it may - that seems to ignore the fact that there appears
> to have been significant malfeasance regarding non-legacy space.
>
> I just want to ensure that we maintain a balanced view of the problem
> and not deflect it to focus only on the legacy space issue.
>
> It terms of priorities - it would make sense to me to focus on how
> space that should have been subject to the RSA has been
> mis-appropriated and then turn to the more difficult question of
> legacy space. If the current processes are open to abuse, then moving
> legacy space under those processes may not have the desired outcome. 
>
> Mike
>
>> On 5 Dec 2019, at 14:27, Mark Tinka > <mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>> wrote:
>>
>> Completely agree with Sunday.
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>> On 5/Dec/19 13:02, Sunday Folayan wrote:
>>> Isn't it time to address Legacy space issues, specifically ancient
>>> squatters on spaces meant to develop the Internet in Africa, AfriNIC
>>> Services and bringing legacy spaces under some form of RSA?
>>>
>>> I urge the community to think beyond the sensation and let us see
>>> how to help and empower the people doing useful work for Africa.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Sunday.
>>>
>>> On 04/12/2019 6:23 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>>> I hope you all will take the time to read and think about the
>>>> following
>>>> news story.
>>>>
>>>> https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/330379-how-internet-resources-worth-r800-million-were-stolen-and-sold-on-the-black-market.html
>>>>
>>>>   I will have more to say about this in due course.  For the
>>>> moment, I only
>>>> wish to say that the investigation undertaken by myself and Jan
>>>> Vermeulen
>>>> is ongoing, and that many others are provably involved.
>>>>     Regards,
>>>> rfg
>>>>
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Re: [Community-Discuss] The Looting of AFRINIC

2019-12-05 Thread Mark Tinka

Completely agree with Sunday.

Mark.

On 5/Dec/19 13:02, Sunday Folayan wrote:
> Isn't it time to address Legacy space issues, specifically ancient
> squatters on spaces meant to develop the Internet in Africa, AfriNIC
> Services and bringing legacy spaces under some form of RSA?
>
> I urge the community to think beyond the sensation and let us see how
> to help and empower the people doing useful work for Africa.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sunday.
>
> On 04/12/2019 6:23 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>> I hope you all will take the time to read and think about the following
>> news story.
>>
>> https://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/330379-how-internet-resources-worth-r800-million-were-stolen-and-sold-on-the-black-market.html
>>
>>   I will have more to say about this in due course.  For the moment,
>> I only
>> wish to say that the investigation undertaken by myself and Jan
>> Vermeulen
>> is ongoing, and that many others are provably involved.
>>     Regards,
>> rfg
>>
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Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC-31 Meeting

2019-11-18 Thread Mark Tinka

The joys of travel... I'm liking it less and less :-).

Mark.

On 18/Nov/19 21:40, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:
>
> Well is a nice history actually:
>
>  
>
> The “initial problem” of the online system (which I always prefer) is
> that you can only use it within the 60 days of the meeting). They were
> asking for a 1 year minimum validity passport, and mine was only valid
> for 9 months at the meeting time ….
>
>  
>
> Then the Madrid consulate said they only need 6 months passport, but
> same problem of only 60 days before the meeting, which was impossible
> for me, because I was **all the time traveling** in that period …
>
>  
>
> And they said “ah by the way, our system is broken, so we don’t know
> when we will be able to do visas …”
>
>  
>
> Then the online system reports that you need to do the biometry in the
> consulate … and the consulate told me “even when we fix our system, we
> don’t know yet when, we don’t have access to the on-line system so
> there is no way we can validate your visa biometry …” wow!
>
>  
>
> Finally, just in case, I renewed my passport anticipately … tried the
> electronic system and with the support of the local host which
> provided a few documents (they reacted in a matter of few hours,
> thanks a lot for that!), in a couple of days, I got the visa without
> the need of a physical biometry validation in the consultate.
>
>  
>
> Regards,
>
> Jordi
>
> @jordipalet
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
> El 19/11/19 3:25, "Mark Tinka"  <mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>> escribió:
>
>  
>
>  
>
> On 18/Nov/19 21:00, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:
>
>
>  
>
> I tried the local consulate in Madrid, and was almost impossible,
> but the online system worked very well and very fast.
>
>
> Sounds like a feature fixing a bug :-).
>
> Mark.
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Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC-31 Meeting

2019-11-18 Thread Mark Tinka

On 18/Nov/19 21:00, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:

>
>  
>
> I tried the local consulate in Madrid, and was almost impossible, but
> the online system worked very well and very fast.
>

Sounds like a feature fixing a bug :-).

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Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC-31 Meeting

2019-11-17 Thread Mark Tinka

I'm not sure having a meeting-specific mailing list helps here, because
it assumes that attendees will always register.

Brokers (and in particular, brokers who spam) can't be guaranteed to
register, or more specifically, follow the rules. They could just show
up as regular hotel guests, not register for the conference, and reach
out to AFRINIC members like they did me and many others, to organize
sidebar meetings, cocktails, dinners, e.t.c. This, I believe, is far
more likely than anything else above-board.

So the best defence is to equip the membership to not get caught up in
this whirlwind, should they be called to the side by the brokers.

Mark.

On 17/Nov/19 17:05, Augustine CHII Ngek wrote:
> +1 Nishal
> We can simply go back to that tradition and see how it helps us in
> this present circumstances.
> Augustine CHII NGEK
>
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2019, 13:50 Nishal Goburdhan,
> mailto:nis...@controlfreak.co.za>> wrote:
>
> On 17 Nov 2019, at 13:09, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss
> wrote:
>
> > I don’t think AFRINIC publishes an attendee list, an even less with
> > contact emails, so not sure how that will work.
> > At least, I just looked at the website (and recent events websites)
> > and couldn’t find it.
>
> many years ago, there were meeting-specific mailing lists, so that
> meeting attendees could share taxi rides, find dinner partners, or
> jogging trails, .. etc.  without spamming regular mailing lists. 
> if you
> weren’t registered for the specific meeting (and presumably onsite)
> you were saved from the span of “where is a nice place to .. “ type
> messages, which were only really contextually useful for meeting
> attendees.  the lists were killed shortly after the meeting.
>
> that process was unfortunately discontinued.
>
> -n.
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Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: AFRINIC-31 Meeting

2019-11-17 Thread Mark Tinka

Totally agreed, which is why I feel that empowering the membership with
enough knowledge to handle themselves well when approached by these
brokers is the best solution all around.

Ultimately, the final decision rests in the hands of those approaching,
and those being approached. So let's equip those being approached, and
make them less susceptible to undue influence.

Mark.

On 17/Nov/19 15:35, Andrew Alston wrote:
>
> I would have a major problem with control over who attends the meetings.
>
>  
>
> To be frank – meetings are about the community, and if we start
> deciding who can and who can’t attend the meetings – beyond the scope
> of a code of conduct – it’s a dangerous and slippery slope from
> there.   I mean – I believe we are feel to name, shame and shun those
> who behave in bad behavior at meetings if we as individuals do not
> like their behavior – but I do not believe we should prevent attendance. 
>
>  
>
> In the same way – I would not advocate for banning someone like Marcus
> from the meeting who used fake accounts to spew racist garbage on the
> lists.  I would advocate from banning them from the lists, and  I
> would fully support a public shaming and humiliation on the floor of
> the meeting so they get the idea this is a **BAD** idea in future, but
> – let them come to the meeting and face the consequences of their actions
>
>  
>
> Andrew
>
>  
>
>  
>
> *From: *Mark Tinka 
> *Date: *Sunday, 17 November 2019 at 13:44
> *To: *Andrew Alston ,
> "community-discuss@afrinic.net" 
> *Subject: *Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: AFRINIC-31 Meeting
>
>  
>
> Thanks, Andrew.
>
> Makes sense to me, but only if both the brokers and the interested RIR
> members abide by these rules.
>
> What I see more likely happening is either side finds this opt-in/out
> ineffective. If we somehow block the spamming and can control who
> attends the meetings, they'll just sidebar all their meetings in and
> around the conference venue, which we definitely cannot control.
>
> So for me, making sure the community fully understands this at an
> intellectual, commercial (and if possible, legal) level is our best
> defence at making sure nobody is duped into doing something they don't
> understand or don't really want to do.
>
> Mark.
>
> On 17/Nov/19 10:41, Andrew Alston wrote:
>
> Personally I have another take on this -
>
>  
>
> I do not agree with spam - or harvesting emails - period - so will
> start there.
>
>  
>
> I do however think that it may be worth considering an opt in/opt
> out list for attendees of AfriNIC meetings where people who wish
> to promote services or give general information about what they
> are doing etc may be worth having.
>
>  
>
> This creates a situation where it avoids to the spam, it’s opt in
> so people who do want to see services on offer by attendees have
> the option of subscribing, and it lets the community market their
> services to each other.  I would have no issue with the existence
> of such a list.
>
>  
>
> Just a thought
>
>  
>
> Andrew 
>
>  
>
>  
>
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>
> 
>
> *From:*Mark Tinka  <mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 17, 2019 4:32:27 PM
> *To:* community-discuss@afrinic.net
> <mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net>
>  <mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: AFRINIC-31 Meeting
>
>  
>
> I'm not sure stopping them from attending is possible, as that can
> be easily forged.
>
> I'm also not sure preventing them from reaching out to the
> community for their business is also feasible.
>
> The only real defence that I see is equipping the community with
> sufficient knowledge about this so folk are not easily swayed by
> the glorious promises of engaging with them.
>
> Mark.
>
> On 16/Nov/19 17:20, Sami Salih wrote:
>
>  
>
> if we all agreed that the reasons they want to attend AFRINIC
> is not welcoming, can we be more proactive and stop them from
> attending or at least stop them from conveying the message to
> the community ?  
>
>  
>
>  
>
> *Dr. Sami H.O. Salih*
> Assistant Prof, School of Electronics Engineering, SUST
> Head of R, NTC, SUDAN
> President of SDv6TF
> T/F: (249)122045707/187171355
>
>

Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: AFRINIC-31 Meeting

2019-11-17 Thread Mark Tinka

Thanks, Andrew.

Makes sense to me, but only if both the brokers and the interested RIR
members abide by these rules.

What I see more likely happening is either side finds this opt-in/out
ineffective. If we somehow block the spamming and can control who
attends the meetings, they'll just sidebar all their meetings in and
around the conference venue, which we definitely cannot control.

So for me, making sure the community fully understands this at an
intellectual, commercial (and if possible, legal) level is our best
defence at making sure nobody is duped into doing something they don't
understand or don't really want to do.

Mark.

On 17/Nov/19 10:41, Andrew Alston wrote:
> Personally I have another take on this -
>
> I do not agree with spam - or harvesting emails - period - so will
> start there.
>
> I do however think that it may be worth considering an opt in/opt out
> list for attendees of AfriNIC meetings where people who wish to
> promote services or give general information about what they are doing
> etc may be worth having.
>
> This creates a situation where it avoids to the spam, it’s opt in so
> people who do want to see services on offer by attendees have the
> option of subscribing, and it lets the community market their services
> to each other.  I would have no issue with the existence of such a list.
>
> Just a thought
>
> Andrew 
>
>
> Get Outlook for iOS <https://aka.ms/o0ukef>
> --------
> *From:* Mark Tinka 
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 17, 2019 4:32:27 PM
> *To:* community-discuss@afrinic.net 
> *Subject:* Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: AFRINIC-31 Meeting
>  
> I'm not sure stopping them from attending is possible, as that can be
> easily forged.
>
> I'm also not sure preventing them from reaching out to the community
> for their business is also feasible.
>
> The only real defence that I see is equipping the community with
> sufficient knowledge about this so folk are not easily swayed by the
> glorious promises of engaging with them.
>
> Mark.
>
> On 16/Nov/19 17:20, Sami Salih wrote:
>>
>> if we all agreed that the reasons they want to attend AFRINIC is not
>> welcoming, can we be more proactive and stop them from attending or
>> at least stop them from conveying the message to the community ?  
>>
>>
>> *Dr. Sami H.O. Salih*
>> Assistant Prof, School of Electronics Engineering, SUST
>> Head of R, NTC, SUDAN
>> President of SDv6TF
>> T/F: (249)122045707/187171355
>> 
>> *From:* Owen DeLong  <mailto:o...@delong.com>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, November 16, 2019 12:02 AM
>> *To:* Badru Ntege 
>> <mailto:badru.nt...@nftconsult.com>
>> *Cc:* General Discussions of AFRINIC 
>> <mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net>; members-disc...@afrinic.net
>> <mailto:members-disc...@afrinic.net> 
>> <mailto:members-disc...@afrinic.net>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: AFRINIC-31 Meeting
>>  
>> The best solution is simply to make sure to avoid doing business with
>> them. Eventually they get the hint, especially if you tell them flat
>> out that you don’t do business with spammers.
>>
>> Owen
>>
>>
>>> On Nov 15, 2019, at 09:49 , Badru Ntege >> <mailto:badru.nt...@nftconsult.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I agree with you on the bad taste. 
>>>
>>> Have many words to add but time to breathe in and out and constrain
>>> oneself 
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On 15 Nov 2019, at 12:26, Mark Tinka >> <mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not sure if anyone else has received these...
>>>>
>>>> I am probably old school, but these kinds of things leave a bad
>>>> taste in my mouth.
>>>>
>>>> Mark.
>>>>
>>>>  Forwarded Message 
>>>> Subject:   AFRINIC-31 Meeting
>>>> Date:  Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:18:52 +
>>>> From:  Lena AFRINIC 
>>>> <mailto:l...@breeden-comm.com>
>>>> To:mark.ti...@seacom.mu <mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Greetings,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hope this email finds you well!
>>>>
>>>> I'm representing IPv4 Services, a registered broker in RIPE, ARIN
>>>> and APNIC. We are attending at AFRINIC 31 in Luanda, Angola, and
>>>> would be a pleasure to meet people th

[Community-Discuss] Fwd: AFRINIC-31 Meeting

2019-11-15 Thread Mark Tinka

Not sure if anyone else has received these...

I am probably old school, but these kinds of things leave a bad taste in
my mouth.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:AFRINIC-31 Meeting
Date:   Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:18:52 +
From:   Lena AFRINIC 
To: mark.ti...@seacom.mu

Greetings,

Hope this email finds you well!

I'm representing IPv4 Services, a registered broker in RIPE, ARIN and
APNIC. We are attending at AFRINIC 31 in Luanda, Angola, and would be a
pleasure to meet people that are open to a potential collaboration
regarding IPv4 resources.

We are planning to establish new connections and find AFRINIC based
business partners for selling/leasing/purchase of IPv4 addresses.

NOTE - if you are interested please feel free to contact me with any
questions.

See you at the event.

--

Kind regards,

Elena Dontu

lena.ipv4 (Skype)

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Operational Matters

2019-11-07 Thread Mark Tinka

On 8/Nov/19 05:54, Ali Hussein wrote:

>
> Your points are noted. Let me make one or two points clear.
>
> 1. There is a clear separation of duties between executive and board.
> I'm not suggesting that the Board usurp the role of the CEO. Or vice
> versa. I'm simply saying there are issues that the CEO CANNOT purport
> to speak for the board. This is basic corporate governance 1o1. For
> example, if there's an issue with the NomComm or HR & Governance
> committee pertaining to the conduct of a senior executive or the CEO
> himself, there will be a clear conflict for the CEO to address such
> matters. 
>
> 2. If the community is unclear between the roles of the Board and the
> CEO then I suggest that they read up on this and/or Afrinic endeavors
> to capacity build the community on the same.

I think it would not be unreasonable for the CEO to give us a simple
summary of when we should expect to hear from the Board in lieu of him.

The membership could read the bylaws about this, but I imagine a simple
message from the CEO will provide more clarity than wading the wording.

>
> A board that is detached from the rest of the organization, seemingly
> like they are some demi-gods, is one of the reasons that companies
> lose their way..There's a fine balance between 'interference' and
> 'neglect'. We must ensure that Afrinic doesn't suffer from this.

You are interpreting my comments about my organization's Board as them
being detached from the organization. That is not what I said, and you
are welcome to re-read my e-mail.

I said my staff (the ones that report to me) would not typically be
involved with the Board. However, I, and upper management, are more
likely to be involved with the Board. I'm sure you get this.

The depth of structure of an RIR's governance is a lot simpler than that
of an organization such as ours, i.e., the membership are more likely to
run into and interact with the Board as a matter of course than, say,
all the staff at a highly structured organization would theirs.

So no, I'm not advocating that AFRINIC members do not speak to the
Board, and I am sure you know that.

>
> One last point. The chairperson of a board is supposed to represent
> the board in such matters. Not the CEO. This MUST be made clear. Board
> matters are Board matters. He/she is First Among Equals. 

Again, grateful if the CEO can dumb it down for us.

I could read it for myself, but in the interest of the avoidance of any
doubt, nothing beats the horse's mouth. I'm getting old and lazy, so
this sort of thing is helpful.

Mark.
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Re: [Community-Discuss] Operational Matters

2019-11-07 Thread Mark Tinka

On 7/Nov/19 01:08, Ali Hussein wrote:

>
> From a corporate governance perspective this must and should be
> addressed by the board chair. You cannot represent the board on such
> matters. Kindly clarify this point. Let me also add that as a
> community based organization the board cannot be hands off. As long as
> they don’t interfere with the day to day running of the organization.
> Their fiduciary responsibility requires that from time to time they
> address issues pertaining to their role. The board chair usually
> represents them on this.

Ali, I think you are asking 2 different questions here:

    - Will the Board continue to be the Board?
    - Will our CEO give the Board airtime to communicate on Board matters?

I won't speak on behalf of the CEO, I'll just speak to common sense and
my own experiences.

The Board will continue to perform their duties of supporting the CEO
re: strategy and governance. No one is suggesting the Board be disbanded.

However, I do believe that whatever message the Board wants the
membership to hear should vessel through the CEO. It confuses the
membership when some matters should be relayed by the Board, and others
by the CEO.

I have not read the bylaws on this, so I am not sure whether there is
any specific provision that dictates what the Board SHOULD communicate,
CAN communicate and MUST communicate. If the bylaws do not make such a
provision or leave a lot of wiggle room, I'd default to the CEO being
the person who communicates with the membership. It does not take the
Board's function away. In fact, it enhances accountability, stability
and uniformity. Lord knows the membership are craving these principles.

At work, the people in my team have probably never heard from the Board
of my organization. I don't expect them ever to, and yet that Board
determines their overall well-being as employees.

Mark.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC legacy space ownership manipulation

2019-11-06 Thread Mark Tinka

Are we saying that the membership and community are too impatient that a
message like this could not have waited a week or two until the new CEO
is burned in?

I didn't see anyone from the membership harassing the Board or AFRINIC
staff about needing urgent updates on legacy space ownership
manipulation :-\.

Mark.

On 6/Nov/19 16:24, Alioune Traore wrote:
> Bonjour,
> dans une période de transition il est tout à fait normal que le Board
> puisse donner 
> ces genres d'informations pour combler le vide du CEO.
> J'approuve donc le message du Board à cet effet.
>
> Dr Ing. Alioune Badara TRAORE 
>
> Membre du conseil de l'AMRTP en charge des TIC
>
> Président FEMAT
>
> Directeur Technique du CNOSM
>
> Ceinture Noire 7ème DAN
> Arbitre Olympique de Taekwondo
> +223 6678 58 31
>
>
>
> Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 à 08:50:46 UTC+1, Adewole Ajao
>  a écrit :
>
>
> I agree, Mark. It's the current board-routed management mode that will
> cause fatigue and a perception of non-responsiveness. I'm sure the
> Board hears our concerns and will hasten the process of helping the
> CEO settle down into his new role. Being volunteers as well, they
> would/should be happy to have their AFRINIC management workload
> reduced ASAP. 
>
> Regards,
> Dewole.
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 8:20 AM Mark Tinka  <mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Dewole.
>
> Perhaps the CEO needs to be given more leeway and authority when
> communicating with the community. I am sure the CEO can use his
> best judgment to determine when any information toward the public
> needs to go by the Board for review.
>
> I fear that if the CEO needs to run an inordinate amount of
> operational matters via the Board (including communication),
> fatigue will set in and little progress will be made.
>
> Mark.
>
> On 5/Nov/19 09:13, Adewole Ajao wrote:
>> Makes sense. Especially on operational and PR issues such as
>> this. Letting the CEO communicate will also reduce the sense of
>> non-responsiveness that members sometimes feel (although it's
>> unavoidable because the board has to convene and agree before any
>> response can be given - even on simple issues whereas the CEO
>> will be able to respond authoritatively to a large extent on
>> behalf of AFRINIC the company).
>>
>> Dewole.
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 8:00 AM Mark Tinka > <mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>> wrote:
>>
>> Don't know if it's just me, but curious why this update (and
>> the investigations associated with it) are not coming from
>> our CEO.
>>
>> I've consistently said that I feel the AFRINIC Board are too
>> involved in AFRINIC's day-to-day affairs, which, IMHO, need
>> to be managed by the AFRINIC CEO and his team, both in front
>> of and behind the scenes.
>>
>> I am somewhat disturbed that this culture does not appear to
>> have changed even on the back of the appointment of the new CEO.
>>
>> Personally, I'd rather be hearing from the CEO and/or any of
>> his staff, than the Board.
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>> On 4/Nov/19 22:45, Bope Domilongo Christian wrote:
>>> Dear Community at large,
>>>
>>> As the community may also, be aware, AFRINIC has attracted
>>> some media coverage relating to suspicious activity in its
>>> WHOIS database primarily a limited section of legacy resources.
>>>
>>>  On behalf of the Board, I would like to assure both the
>>> AFRINIC membership and the Internet community at large that
>>> the Board has conducted some preliminary assessment of the
>>> matter, and would like to let you know that investigations
>>> are progressing well and will be concluded soon, most likely
>>> before or by the end of the year. We cannot reveal much or
>>> go into further details at this stage as we do not want to
>>> jeopardise the investigations. However, you can rest assured
>>> that we will get to the bottom of the matter. At the same
>>> time, we want to ensure that the rights of any affected
>>> parties are respected and protected as per the law. All said
>>> we are keen to ensure the interests of AFRINIC members are
>>> safeguarded as we seek to maintain stable, reliable and
>>> effective management of Internet resou

Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC legacy space ownership manipulation

2019-11-06 Thread Mark Tinka

Thanks, Arnaud.

While I appreciate your differing view point, I disagree with it.

You are asserting that the Board are a placeholder to keep AFRINIC
running because the CEO and staff are unable to.

The Board's involvement has been too visible, even when Alan was the
CEO. Moreover, many items that could have been communicated and/or
co-ordinated by staff also came from the Board. So what is the point of
the staff?

I interacted with Board members, during Kampala earlier this year,
worried about how they can enhance network resiliency for AFRINIC's
services currently hosted in South Africa. I advised those Board members
to leave these decisions to the AFRINIC staff, who are more than capable
of dealing with this, even during the CEO transition.

Mark.

On 6/Nov/19 14:05, Arnaud AMELINA wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Allow me to offer a different view. 
>
> Because we all want role separation which is normal and must be framed
> by the company’s constitution, we must agree  that the issue on the
> table is a matter for board. (Allegations  of malicious actions on to
> the public resources  which the organization is responsible for on
> behalf of the global internet community)
>
> Let us focus more on the message than on the carrier which could have
> been the CEO, legal, communication department.
>
> Separation of roles also encompasses that each party accept and
> respect the role and responsibilities of others.
>
> May be when the organization solves its complex governance issues
> being addressed and occupying all our attention, board can go  back to
> routine work and ceo and staff will engage on the operations and we
> will enjoy again working and interacting with them.
>
> It is curious to see that some former board members who were keen in
> violating the rules of separation of roles and always invoking company
> act, board fiduciary responsibilities are now asking for the separation...
>
> We’ve won something... let’s make it continue.
>
> --
> Arnaud
>
> Le mar. 5 nov. 2019 à 07:01, Mark Tinka  <mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>> a écrit :
>
> Don't know if it's just me, but curious why this update (and the
> investigations associated with it) are not coming from our CEO.
>
> I've consistently said that I feel the AFRINIC Board are too
> involved in AFRINIC's day-to-day affairs, which, IMHO, need to be
> managed by the AFRINIC CEO and his team, both in front of and
> behind the scenes.
>
> I am somewhat disturbed that this culture does not appear to have
> changed even on the back of the appointment of the new CEO.
>
> Personally, I'd rather be hearing from the CEO and/or any of his
> staff, than the Board.
>
> Mark.
>
> On 4/Nov/19 22:45, Bope Domilongo Christian wrote:
>> Dear Community at large,
>>
>> As the community may also, be aware, AFRINIC has attracted some
>> media coverage relating to suspicious activity in its WHOIS
>> database primarily a limited section of legacy resources.
>>
>>  On behalf of the Board, I would like to assure both the AFRINIC
>> membership and the Internet community at large that the Board has
>> conducted some preliminary assessment of the matter, and would
>> like to let you know that investigations are progressing well and
>> will be concluded soon, most likely before or by the end of the
>> year. We cannot reveal much or go into further details at this
>> stage as we do not want to jeopardise the investigations.
>> However, you can rest assured that we will get to the bottom of
>> the matter. At the same time, we want to ensure that the rights
>> of any affected parties are respected and protected as per the
>> law. All said we are keen to ensure the interests of AFRINIC
>> members are safeguarded as we seek to maintain stable, reliable
>> and effective management of Internet resources. Besides, the
>> AFRINIC WHOIS database remains fully operational with high
>> standards of integrity.
>>
>> Nevertheless, there is always room for improvement and AFRINIC
>> operations team is currently reviewing some of the
>> long-established processes relating to the management of Internet
>> resources under AFRINIC's ambit. The team is already implementing
>> some improvement measures at both the IT Infrastructure and
>> process level. As usual, the AFRINIC membership will be
>> appropriately apprised of the developments.
>>
>> Best regards, 
>> Dr Christian D. Bope
>> Chairman, AFRINIC Board of Directors
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Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC legacy space ownership manipulation

2019-11-04 Thread Mark Tinka

Thanks, Dewole.

Perhaps the CEO needs to be given more leeway and authority when
communicating with the community. I am sure the CEO can use his best
judgment to determine when any information toward the public needs to go
by the Board for review.

I fear that if the CEO needs to run an inordinate amount of operational
matters via the Board (including communication), fatigue will set in and
little progress will be made.

Mark.

On 5/Nov/19 09:13, Adewole Ajao wrote:
> Makes sense. Especially on operational and PR issues such as this.
> Letting the CEO communicate will also reduce the sense of
> non-responsiveness that members sometimes feel (although it's
> unavoidable because the board has to convene and agree before any
> response can be given - even on simple issues whereas the CEO will be
> able to respond authoritatively to a large extent on behalf of AFRINIC
> the company).
>
> Dewole.
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 8:00 AM Mark Tinka  <mailto:mark.ti...@seacom.mu>> wrote:
>
> Don't know if it's just me, but curious why this update (and the
> investigations associated with it) are not coming from our CEO.
>
> I've consistently said that I feel the AFRINIC Board are too
> involved in AFRINIC's day-to-day affairs, which, IMHO, need to be
> managed by the AFRINIC CEO and his team, both in front of and
> behind the scenes.
>
> I am somewhat disturbed that this culture does not appear to have
> changed even on the back of the appointment of the new CEO.
>
> Personally, I'd rather be hearing from the CEO and/or any of his
> staff, than the Board.
>
> Mark.
>
> On 4/Nov/19 22:45, Bope Domilongo Christian wrote:
>> Dear Community at large,
>>
>> As the community may also, be aware, AFRINIC has attracted some
>> media coverage relating to suspicious activity in its WHOIS
>> database primarily a limited section of legacy resources.
>>
>>  On behalf of the Board, I would like to assure both the AFRINIC
>> membership and the Internet community at large that the Board has
>> conducted some preliminary assessment of the matter, and would
>> like to let you know that investigations are progressing well and
>> will be concluded soon, most likely before or by the end of the
>> year. We cannot reveal much or go into further details at this
>> stage as we do not want to jeopardise the investigations.
>> However, you can rest assured that we will get to the bottom of
>> the matter. At the same time, we want to ensure that the rights
>> of any affected parties are respected and protected as per the
>> law. All said we are keen to ensure the interests of AFRINIC
>> members are safeguarded as we seek to maintain stable, reliable
>> and effective management of Internet resources. Besides, the
>> AFRINIC WHOIS database remains fully operational with high
>> standards of integrity.
>>
>> Nevertheless, there is always room for improvement and AFRINIC
>> operations team is currently reviewing some of the
>> long-established processes relating to the management of Internet
>> resources under AFRINIC's ambit. The team is already implementing
>> some improvement measures at both the IT Infrastructure and
>> process level. As usual, the AFRINIC membership will be
>> appropriately apprised of the developments.
>>
>> Best regards, 
>> Dr Christian D. Bope
>> Chairman, AFRINIC Board of Directors
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Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC legacy space ownership manipulation

2019-11-04 Thread Mark Tinka

Don't know if it's just me, but curious why this update (and the
investigations associated with it) are not coming from our CEO.

I've consistently said that I feel the AFRINIC Board are too involved in
AFRINIC's day-to-day affairs, which, IMHO, need to be managed by the
AFRINIC CEO and his team, both in front of and behind the scenes.

I am somewhat disturbed that this culture does not appear to have
changed even on the back of the appointment of the new CEO.

Personally, I'd rather be hearing from the CEO and/or any of his staff,
than the Board.

Mark.

On 4/Nov/19 22:45, Bope Domilongo Christian wrote:
> Dear Community at large,
>
> As the community may also, be aware, AFRINIC has attracted some media
> coverage relating to suspicious activity in its WHOIS database
> primarily a limited section of legacy resources.
>
>  On behalf of the Board, I would like to assure both the AFRINIC
> membership and the Internet community at large that the Board has
> conducted some preliminary assessment of the matter, and would like to
> let you know that investigations are progressing well and will be
> concluded soon, most likely before or by the end of the year. We
> cannot reveal much or go into further details at this stage as we do
> not want to jeopardise the investigations. However, you can rest
> assured that we will get to the bottom of the matter. At the same
> time, we want to ensure that the rights of any affected parties are
> respected and protected as per the law. All said we are keen to ensure
> the interests of AFRINIC members are safeguarded as we seek to
> maintain stable, reliable and effective management of Internet
> resources. Besides, the AFRINIC WHOIS database remains fully
> operational with high standards of integrity.
>
> Nevertheless, there is always room for improvement and AFRINIC
> operations team is currently reviewing some of the long-established
> processes relating to the management of Internet resources under
> AFRINIC's ambit. The team is already implementing some improvement
> measures at both the IT Infrastructure and process level. As usual,
> the AFRINIC membership will be appropriately apprised of the developments.
>
> Best regards, 
> Dr Christian D. Bope
> Chairman, AFRINIC Board of Directors

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Continuous Negative Narrative Towards AfriNIC in the Press

2019-10-29 Thread Mark Tinka

On 29/Oct/19 08:39, Sami Salih wrote:

> I don't believe we need to be very annoyed by what is leaked on "free"
> news publichers -I really hope they r free-

You know what they say in 2019... "When it's free, you're the product" :-).

But agree with you, heads down, focus on doing good work, pay your dues,
and all the rest will happen.

Mark.

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[Community-Discuss] APRICOT 2020 Call for PC Volunteers

2019-10-14 Thread Mark Tinka

Hi everyone,

The APRICOT 2020 Programme Committee is responsible for the solicitation
and selection of suitable presentation and tutorial content for the
APRICOT 2020 conference (https://2020.apricot.net/).

The APRICOT PC Chairs are now seeking nominations from the community to
join the APRICOT 2020 PC to assist with the development of the programme
for APRICOT 2020.

Eligible PC candidates are those who have attended APRICOT conferences
in the recent past, have broad technical knowledge of Internet
operations, and have reasonable familiarity with the format of APRICOT
conferences. Having constructive opinions and ideas about how the
programme content might be improved is of high value too. PC members are
expected to work actively to solicit content and review submissions for
technical merit. The PC meets by conference call, weekly in frequency
during the three months prior to APRICOT.

If you are interested in joining the PC and meet the above eligibility
criteria, please send a brief note to "pc-chairs at apricot.net". The
note should include affiliation (if any) and contact details (including
e-mail address), and a brief description of why you would make a good
addition to the PC. PC members who are active, successfully solicit
content, contribute to regular PC meetings and submit reviews receive
complimentary registration for APRICOT 2020.

The PC Chairs will accept nominations received by 17:00 UTC+8 on Monday
21st October, 2019, and will announce the new PC shortly thereafter.

Many thanks!

Mark Tinka, Marijana Novakovic & Philip Smith
APRICOT 2020 PC Chairs
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[Community-Discuss] Fwd: [safnog] SAFNOG-5 Is Ready For You

2019-08-22 Thread Mark Tinka

FYI - SAFNOG-5 in Johannesburg, next week.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[safnog] SAFNOG-5 Is Ready For You
Date:   Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:30:12 +
From:   Portia Rabonda 
To: saf...@safnog.org 

Hello All,

With just 4 days to go to SAFNOG-5 in Johannesburg, South Africa, we are
excited to have you join us for what is going to be a very informative,
educational and fun agenda.

Highlights from the program include:

  * 3 keynotes:
  o Sunil Tagare (OpenCables), talking about the impact of the
submarine cables - on Africa - that Facebook and Google have
announced, and what it could mean for the continent.
  o Byron Clatterbuck (SEACOM), also speaking about submarine cable
realities in Africa, how to make them sustainable and help
effect change in the region.
  o Jerome Fleury (Cloudflare), who will be going into detail about
the outage his organization faced on June 24th of this year, due
to a massive BGP leak.

  * The first carrier-neutral data centre that will go live in Kampala,
Uganda, at the end of 2019.

  * A panel on the relevance (or lack of thereof) of generalized speed
tests in 2019 as minimum bandwidth increases for consumers,
enterprises and service providers.

  * South Africa's first FTTH service provider that is delivering native
IPv6 to home users.

  * Numerous tutorials/workshops that will provide training on:
  o IPv6 deployment.
  o IRR, RPKI and ROV for a secure, global BGP.
  o Critical infrastructure vis a vis what the Internet should be,
and what it actually is.

There will also be a number of social events taking place, which will
connect all participants to further network with one another and create
opportunities on helping further grow the Internet within the region,
and the rest of the world.

To register for the event, and for more details on the agenda, please
visit: http://www.safnog.org/

We look forward to seeing you in Johannesburg.

Regards,

SAFNOG-5 Programme Committee

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Report of the AFRINIC Open Mic Session on June 20

2019-07-24 Thread Mark Tinka

Personally, what stands out for me - and something I expressed to a few
Board members during Kampala - is that the AFRINIC Board are awfully
visible, both in public and non-public circumstances.

I sometimes can't quite figure out whether AFRINIC is being run by its
staff or the Board.

I would like to limit the operational visibility of the Board, and
expose more airtime with the AFRINIC staff on a number of matters, both
strategic and operational.

I do not discount the value and requirement of the Board, but I think it
is overshadowing those charged with running the organization on a
day-to-day.

Mark.

On 24/Jul/19 06:11, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Michuki and Dawit,
>
> Thank you for doing this.
>
> I admit that I was pulled into other things and was unable to attend the open 
> mic, so I will take this opportunity to comment on the summary.
>
> Organizational Transparency
>
> This has been one of the greatest failings of the AfriNIC board to date. 
> While I agree that there are some things the board should not disclose 
> (mostly matters that must remain confidential due to legal strategy, attorney 
> work product, the privacy of staff members undergoing some form of 
> disciplinary review or action, salary data, etc., I do think that the general 
> rule for the board should be “if in doubt, make it available to the 
> community” rather than “hide everything unless forced to disclose” (which 
> seems to be closer to the current operating model).
>
> I do not believe that detailed information increases suspicion. Rather, I 
> think information breeds trust and silence breeds suspicion.
>
> I do support the idea of placing much stricter limits on the scope of the 
> board NDA and a much tighter definition of the confidential information 
> covered by it.
>
> In general, I think that there should be a time limit not to exceed 10 days 
> for the board minutes to be made public after a board meeting. (note, I mean 
> 10 days after the meeting, not 10 days after they are adopted at the 
> following meeting).
>
> Community Engagement
>
> I question the value of additional meetings and additional board travel 
> expense to support them. I think there are better ways for the board to 
> improve community engagement that will both serve a larger fraction of the 
> community and cost the organization less.
>
> There should be an open alias that anyone who is subscribed to 
> community-discuss can use in order to communicate with the board. Board 
> members should have an email address published to community members which 
> they monitor and respond to reasonably. (This is the case in all other RIRs 
> to the best of my knowledge).
>
> Board members should be required to read and where relevant or requested, 
> respond to the community-discuss and members-discuss lists.
>
> In general, board members should seek to make themselves available, 
> approachable, and easy for community members to interact with, both at 
> meetings and via email at other times.
>
> Governance Committee
>
> IMHO, the governance committee should not be a standing committee. It should 
> have been constituted as an ad hoc committee with a mandate to review the 
> current governance structure of AfriNIC, identify specific improvements that 
> needed to be made, propose the necessary bylaw amendments, procedural 
> changes, etc., explain them to the community and work through the process 
> with the community to refine those proposals into actionable motions or 
> documents. In the case of motions, shepherding them through the process until 
> a vote shows a clear outcome (acceptance or otherwise), and then disband.
>
> There is no reason to have a committee whose job is to act as a go-between 
> between the community and the board. This only exacerbates the problems 
> mentioned in Community Engagement.
>
> Bylaws, Procedural Matters, and Legal Interpretations
>
> Nowhere else in the world are the RIR general member meetings subject to such 
> conduct as is becoming the norm for AfriNIC meetings.
>
> There are a number of problems that need to be addressed here…
>   Some need change to the bylaws:
>   +   Poorly defined procedures
>   +   Lack of a framework for addressing exceptional 
> circumstances
>   +   Overly specific definitions of certain aspects (vote 
> must be a show of hands) while failing to define
>   important criteria (how many candidates can one vote 
> for if two people are to be elected and how
>   are those votes to be counted).
>   +   Lack of a mandate for NOMCOM to recruit sufficient 
> candidates to stand for election (IMHO, minimum N+1 and
>   better 3N or more where N is the number of  positions 
> to be elected)..
>   etc.
>
>   Some merely need some effort to create proper procedural and 
> operational language and codify it in an appropriate place.
>   +

Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Report of the AFRINIC Open Mic Session on June 20

2019-07-23 Thread Mark Tinka

Good work, Mich and team!

Mark.

On 23/Jul/19 22:30, Noah wrote:
> Dear Dawit and Michuki
>
> Thanks you so much for this report and having read through it, I find
> it very accurate as it covers the accounts of the said deliberations.
> We hope all stakeholders will consider the content of the report and
> act upon it.
>
> Looking forward to more engagement and collaboration.
>
> Cheers
> Noah
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: *Dawit Bekele* mailto:bek...@isoc.org>>
> Date: Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:40 PM
> Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Report of the AFRINIC Open Mic Session on
> June 20
> To: AfrICANN Community List  >
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> As you might remember, AFRINIC board asked Michuki and I to moderate
> the open mic discussion after the board meeting on June 20. We
> accepted the request and moderated the meeting as best as we could.
> With some delay, we have prepared a report of the meeting that we
> would like to share here (attached). We focused on reporting on the
> issues raised rather than providing detailed minutes of the discussion.
>
> Please let us know if there is any inaccuracy so that we make
> corrections before submitting a final version.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Dawit Bekele and Michuki Mwangi
>
> Internet Society
>
> African Regional Bureau
>
>  
>
>  
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Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

2019-07-03 Thread Mark Tinka

I spend 20% of my e-mail time unsubscribing from lists I was signed on,
that I have zero clue about. I don't wonder how my e-mail address was
obtained (I mean, I could guess since Google'ing myself actually returns
a usable result), but I just don't have the time.

A further 10% of my e-mail time is ignoring Linkedin requests for people
I don't know and have no immediate connection with. I've found many of
those are just trying to grow their network, sell you something, or both.

I spend another 10% of my time ignoring and deleting e-mails from
companies that join industry meetings simply to sell you attendee lists
or to sell you airtime with other participants. ITW, PTC, Capacity * are
all victims of this, and this has now spread to our beloved NOG community.

I again spend another 7% of my e-mail time just ignoring or deleting
what I term "improper" correspondence. This has, in the past, included
e-mails from people asking me to vote a certain way for a number of
elections, all over the world, for a number of organizations (within and
outside of our industry). If I find the way in which you reached out to
me for this, especially if I don't know you, I just delete the e-mail
and move on. If I know you and feel you can do well for the community,
I'll advise you about doing better.

I then spend another 3% of my e-mail time ignoring discussions that
aren't going anywhere.

That leaves 50% of my e-mail time to do something actually constructive.
That's not a lot, in the grand scheme of things.

If we throw everyone in the slammer and not teach them how to do better,
we won't have anyone left to throw in the slammer or teach about how to
do better.

Bottom line, you can either spend your 24hrs in a day advancing a
meaningful objective, or not. I do a lot more of the former. Time on
this earth is limited... if I were drop dead right now, the mailboxes I
leave behind will still be half full of just nonsense.

Mark.

On 4/Jul/19 00:39, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:
>
> Hi Noah,
>
>  
>
> I’m sure we all have contacts from lots of people from the community,
> but we use those contacts for the reason they have been provided, is
> not lawful to use those for anything else.
>
>  
>
> The point here is that even if I’ve your email because we have
> contected about operational issues of our networks (for example), I
> can use your email for selling you “fruits” or “a car” or “convince
> you about what candidates to the board you should vote”.
>
>  
>
> In fact, according to the GDPR (and in many countries even before the
> GDPR), if I’ve your email because you’re my customer for shoes, and
> tomorrow I setup a shop for fish, I can’t use your email for that. If
> instead of shoes it is clothes, it may depend on the original data
> that was provided about my business when you registered for the shoes.
> However, definitively I can’t use your email for sending you a support
> request for my prefered board candidates.
>
>  
>
> Anyway, there is a simple answer to all that. Can Ahmed, who send the
> original email, confirm if he provided it to the sender, for elections
> information or something else ?
>
>  
>
> Can other folks who got that email, confirm if they have provided it?
>
>  
>
> With just a few responses, we will be able to understand if that was
> part of an allowed communication or there is data protection issue.
>
>  
>
> Regards,
>
> Jordi
>
> @jordipalet
>
>  
>
>  
>
>  
>
> El 4/7/19 0:07, "Noah" mailto:n...@neo.co.tz>> escribió:
>
>  
>
> Hi Jordi,
>
>  
>
> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:51 PM JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via
> Community-Discuss  > wrote:
>
> I’m angrier about this as much as I think on it again.
>
>  
>
> I hope you have come down.
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Can all the people that got those emails confirm if they have
> provided voluntarily their emails or if they have participated in
> Afrinic lists, or if those emails are part of their Afrinic
> contacts, in order to understand if this personal data (emails are
> personal data), have been collected from Afrinic internal databases.
>
>  
>
> I can confirm I did receive such similar emails from various
> candidates and some of their supporters seeking my vote. I can also
> confirm that my address book is full of contact email addresses of
> technical members of various communities. I for instance know most
> email addresses of technical people in my country and a few other
> countries in East and Southern Africa and I have exchanged emails with
> folks in the past and I still reach out to them often regarding
> various Internet related activities.
>
>  
>
> Cheers,
>
> Noah
>
>  
>
>  
>
>
> **
> IPv4 is over
> Are you ready for the new Internet ?
> http://www.theipv6company.com
> The IPv6 Company
>
> This electronic message contains information which may be privileged
> or confidential. The information is intended to be for the

Re: [Community-Discuss] 2019 Board Elections: Fix against having sole candidates WAS Re: AFRINIC Borad Elections

2019-07-03 Thread Mark Tinka

On 3/Jul/19 15:10, Sunday Folayan wrote:

> I propose the following fixes:

I also agree that it's better to focus on constructive fixes rather than
labour what has already happened. We could all do that for days and
we'll still be spinning our wheels 12 months from now.

> c) Where there is only one candidate after all said and done, the
> members should be able to reject such a candidate at the Ballot
>  For item 3, ... Perhaps it is too early to comment. Let us grab some
> pop-corn and stayed tuned to this movie channel. 

I think the suggestion above is not unreasonable. It would not be a good
idea to give voters an all-or-nothing choice, so for the next round of
voting, I think it's a good idea to give members the option of rejecting
a specific candidate without foregoing the entire voting process.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Reform Nomcomm - was Announcement for Final Candidate Slate for Open Seat on AFRINIC Governance Committee

2019-06-16 Thread Mark Tinka

That is simple. I like simple.

A topic worth discussing.

Mark.

On 16/Jun/19 16:58, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Personally, I think that we should simply eliminate the geographic
> restrictions on board seats and have a single AfriNIC board elected
> from qualified candidates from within the region, regardless of where
> in the region they come from.
>
> Owen
>
>
>> On Jun 16, 2019, at 4:39 AM, Dewole Ajao > > wrote:
>>
>> Since we are on the topic of "reforming" NomCom, I wonder why our
>> bylaws state that candidates for appointment to NomCom shall *not* be
>> domiciled in a region where an open seat is being contested. I think
>> a person resident within a region is more likely to know and have
>> access to suitably qualified candidates and we should remove this
>> restriction as we try to improve the nomination. 
>>
>> If the sole intention of this restriction was to prevent
>> favoritism/bias, I think adding transparency to the process will
>> quite easily expose such. Or is anyone aware of other justifications
>> for having that restriction in place?
>>
>> Dewole.
>>
>> On 6/16/2019 11:54 AM, John Walu wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 1:31 PM Owen DeLong >> > wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> In general, I agree with you. I will, however, note that it is
>>> possible that there are situations where “why” should be redacted to
>>> protect the confidentiality and dignity of the applicant who was
>>> rejected. For example, if the nominating committee had rejected a 
>>> candidate because he is under indictment and under disciplinary
>>> review in his day job for misconduct, I don’t think that nomcom
>>> should be the ones to publicly disclose those details.
>>> >>>
>>> @Owen  
>>>
>>> Its true, we must protect the applicant's privacy.  However, we must
>>> also enhance the Nomcom's transparency.  Imagine a situation where
>>> Nomcomm disqualifies candidates because they allegedly did not
>>> respond to some email. It is quite difficult really to really prove
>>> beyond reasonable it at all such an email was ever sent.  It is even
>>> harder to prove that it was successfully delivered to the intended
>>> recipient.
>>>
>>> In such a case, Nomcom should publicly say Candidate X was
>>> disqualified because they did not respond to an email. (that in
>>> itself will discourage and expose a Nomcom that  is heavily biased
>>> towards knocking out, rather than recruiting board members;-)
>>>
>>> Perhaps a middle ground that would protect the candidate's privacy
>>> while enhancing Nomcom Transparency and accountability would be to
>>> seek consent or objection from Candidates - at the point of
>>> application - if they would object to the reasons behind their
>>> rejection being publicly reported.
>>>
>>> That way we avoid giving a blank cheque to Nomcom who may make
>>> decisions knowing very well that they need NOT explain themselves to
>>> anyone (lack of accountability). 
>>>
>>> So lets design and give Nomcomm a  Standard Reporting Template to
>>> enhance their transparency.  They will remain independent and
>>> autonomous in the functionality, but they should owe the community
>>> an understanding on how they worked hard to raise good candidates
>>> for AfriNIC.  
>>>
>>> The report from Nomcomm with respect to the PDWG election is a good
>>> start and can be refined and adapted for future Nomcomms.
>>>
>>> walu.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 1:31 PM Owen DeLong >> > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Jun 4, 2019, at 11:34 PM, John Walu >> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I believe the deeper question is WHY is there an increasingly
>>> smaller candidate slate of those volunteering to serve on
>>> Afrinic board, year in year out.
>>> >
>>> > Two possible answers:
>>> > A) Good candidates are avoiding the perceived 'challenging'
>>> board /management /community relationships that continue to
>>> persist. So nomcom hands are tied and cannot manufacture candidates.
>>> >
>>> > OR
>>> > B) There are actually many good candidates applying  BUT the
>>> Nomcom 'Black-box' processes is kicking them out and reducing
>>> them to 1 or 2 nominees.
>>> >
>>> > To drill down to the correct answer, I think the Nomcom
>>> process needs to be reformed.
>>> >
>>> > I still do not understand the benefit of having a black box
>>> process in the nomination committee where the community has no
>>> clue about how many candidates applied, how many got knocked out
>>> and why. IF national Presidential election systems are so open
>>> about this, why is that it has to remain hidden for Afrinic?
>>> >
>>> > And I say this as someone who has once served on Nomcomm as
>>> well as someone who has once been rejected by some previous
>>> Nomcomm (I want to believe it is within my right to share
>>> personal information/experience as

Re: [Community-Discuss] Reform Nomcomm - was Announcement for Final Candidate Slate for Open Seat on AFRINIC Governance Committee

2019-06-16 Thread Mark Tinka

That is simple. I like simple.

A topic worth discussing.

Mark.

On 16/Jun/19 16:58, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Personally, I think that we should simply eliminate the geographic
> restrictions on board seats and have a single AfriNIC board elected
> from qualified candidates from within the region, regardless of where
> in the region they come from.
>
> Owen
>
>
>> On Jun 16, 2019, at 4:39 AM, Dewole Ajao > > wrote:
>>
>> Since we are on the topic of "reforming" NomCom, I wonder why our
>> bylaws state that candidates for appointment to NomCom shall *not* be
>> domiciled in a region where an open seat is being contested. I think
>> a person resident within a region is more likely to know and have
>> access to suitably qualified candidates and we should remove this
>> restriction as we try to improve the nomination. 
>>
>> If the sole intention of this restriction was to prevent
>> favoritism/bias, I think adding transparency to the process will
>> quite easily expose such. Or is anyone aware of other justifications
>> for having that restriction in place?
>>
>> Dewole.
>>
>> On 6/16/2019 11:54 AM, John Walu wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 1:31 PM Owen DeLong >> > wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> In general, I agree with you. I will, however, note that it is
>>> possible that there are situations where “why” should be redacted to
>>> protect the confidentiality and dignity of the applicant who was
>>> rejected. For example, if the nominating committee had rejected a 
>>> candidate because he is under indictment and under disciplinary
>>> review in his day job for misconduct, I don’t think that nomcom
>>> should be the ones to publicly disclose those details.
>>> >>>
>>> @Owen  
>>>
>>> Its true, we must protect the applicant's privacy.  However, we must
>>> also enhance the Nomcom's transparency.  Imagine a situation where
>>> Nomcomm disqualifies candidates because they allegedly did not
>>> respond to some email. It is quite difficult really to really prove
>>> beyond reasonable it at all such an email was ever sent.  It is even
>>> harder to prove that it was successfully delivered to the intended
>>> recipient.
>>>
>>> In such a case, Nomcom should publicly say Candidate X was
>>> disqualified because they did not respond to an email. (that in
>>> itself will discourage and expose a Nomcom that  is heavily biased
>>> towards knocking out, rather than recruiting board members;-)
>>>
>>> Perhaps a middle ground that would protect the candidate's privacy
>>> while enhancing Nomcom Transparency and accountability would be to
>>> seek consent or objection from Candidates - at the point of
>>> application - if they would object to the reasons behind their
>>> rejection being publicly reported.
>>>
>>> That way we avoid giving a blank cheque to Nomcom who may make
>>> decisions knowing very well that they need NOT explain themselves to
>>> anyone (lack of accountability). 
>>>
>>> So lets design and give Nomcomm a  Standard Reporting Template to
>>> enhance their transparency.  They will remain independent and
>>> autonomous in the functionality, but they should owe the community
>>> an understanding on how they worked hard to raise good candidates
>>> for AfriNIC.  
>>>
>>> The report from Nomcomm with respect to the PDWG election is a good
>>> start and can be refined and adapted for future Nomcomms.
>>>
>>> walu.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 1:31 PM Owen DeLong >> > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > On Jun 4, 2019, at 11:34 PM, John Walu >> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I believe the deeper question is WHY is there an increasingly
>>> smaller candidate slate of those volunteering to serve on
>>> Afrinic board, year in year out.
>>> >
>>> > Two possible answers:
>>> > A) Good candidates are avoiding the perceived 'challenging'
>>> board /management /community relationships that continue to
>>> persist. So nomcom hands are tied and cannot manufacture candidates.
>>> >
>>> > OR
>>> > B) There are actually many good candidates applying  BUT the
>>> Nomcom 'Black-box' processes is kicking them out and reducing
>>> them to 1 or 2 nominees.
>>> >
>>> > To drill down to the correct answer, I think the Nomcom
>>> process needs to be reformed.
>>> >
>>> > I still do not understand the benefit of having a black box
>>> process in the nomination committee where the community has no
>>> clue about how many candidates applied, how many got knocked out
>>> and why. IF national Presidential election systems are so open
>>> about this, why is that it has to remain hidden for Afrinic?
>>> >
>>> > And I say this as someone who has once served on Nomcomm as
>>> well as someone who has once been rejected by some previous
>>> Nomcomm (I want to believe it is within my right to share
>>> personal information/experience as

[Community-Discuss] Fwd: [safnog] SAFNOG-5 Call for Papers

2019-06-04 Thread Mark Tinka

FYI.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[safnog] SAFNOG-5 Call for Papers
Date:   Fri, 31 May 2019 12:03:49 +
From:   Portia Rabonda 
To: saf...@safnog.org 

Dear All,

Call for papers is open and the SAFNOG-5 Programme Committee would like
to encourage your participation and contributions to the
upcoming SAFNOG-5 Conference in the form of Presentations and Tutorials.

We are looking for presenters who would:

    - Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;
    - Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;
    - Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics.

*Conference Milestones*

Call for Papers Opens 21st May, 2019

Draft Program Published 29th July, 2019
Final Deadline for Submissions 5th August, 2019    
Final Program Published 16th August, 2019    
Final Slides Received  20th August, 2019          

**NOTE THAT REGARDLESS OF DEADLINES, SLOTS ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME,
FIRST SERVED BASIS**

*Program Material*

The SAFNOG-5 Conference Programme consists of two parts, these being the
Tutorials and Conference Tracks.

Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies:

    - IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and Operations
    - IPv6 deployment and transition technologies
    - Internet backbone operations
    - ISP and Carrier services
    - IXPs and Peering
    - Research on Internet Operations and Deployment
    - Software Defined Networking / Network Function Virtualisation
    - Network security issues (NSP-SEC, DDoS, Anti-Spam, Anti-Malware)
    - DNS / DNSSEC
    - Internet policy (Security, Regulation, Content Management,
Addressing, etc)
    - Access and Transport Technologies, including Cable/DSL, LTE/5G,
wireless, metro ethernet, fibre, segment routing
    - Content & Service Delivery (Multicast, Voice, Video,
"telepresence", Gaming) and Cloud Computing

*CfP Submissions*

Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be provided
with CfP submissions otherwise the Programme Committee will be unable to
review the submission. For avoidance of doubt this means that
submissions which do not include slides will be rejected immediately.
For work in progress, the most current information available at time of
submission is acceptable.

All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only.

Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for
publication on the SAFNOG-5 website.

Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots
will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC may, at
their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final
submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely,
important, or of critical operational importance. Every year we turn
away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots before
the deadline. Presenters should endeavour to get material into the PC
sooner rather than later.

Please submit your contributions online at http://www.safnog.org

Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme Committee
by e-mail at: 

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Re: [Community-Discuss] 06 April 2019 RPKI incident - Postmortem report

2019-04-10 Thread Mark Tinka




On 10/Apr/19 21:39, Owen DeLong wrote:

>
>
> If I understand it correctly, however, ALL of the RIRs mirror all of
> the other RIRs data,...

You mean of the TAL?

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Re: [Community-Discuss] 06 April 2019 RPKI incident - Postmortem report

2019-04-10 Thread Mark Tinka



On 10/Apr/19 14:59, Owen DeLong wrote:

>
> RPKI is operational. I’m not sure how serious it is, as I have trouble
> taking seriously a system which, at best, tells you what you need to
> prepend. It’s a nice protection from fat fingers, but, in its current
> state, it provides little to no protection beyond that for anyone but
> the largest operators.
>
> Nonetheless, even if one wants to take RPKI seriously, a quick review
> of the RFCs and IETF guidance on the matter shows that the worst case
> scenario for an RIR outage on ROA publication should be that routing
> reverts to its pre-RPKI unauthenticated state. It should not cause any
> sort of outage (except to the extent you might start accepting routes
> you previously rejected).
>
> If you’re rejecting routes for RPKI validation failure, you should be
> tracking down the advertisers and getting those situations corrected.
> If you’re doing that, then any such outages should be somewhere
> between minimal and non-existent.
>
> Did any packets go the wrong way due to the AfriNIC outage? Was there
> any actual operational impact?
>
> I suspect not. I suspect that this is a lot of handwaving about a
> non-issue.
>
> Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for making AfriNIC’s systems more
> resilient and more available, but, I think we also need to consider
> the actual impact of failures and not over-react to failures without
> impact.

I, for one, need to gain operational experience about RPKI, and start to
form some BCP's that will be helpful in the coming months/years.

RPKI is here (like IPv6 and DNSSEC), so the time to argue its merits is
long gone. One is welcome not to use it if they so wish, but for those
that want to, we can only gain experience when the base system is stable
and free of simple, reasonably avoidable errors.

Mark.

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Re: [Community-Discuss] 06 April 2019 RPKI incident - Postmortem report

2019-04-10 Thread Mark Tinka

Thanks, Cedrick.

A question that is, perhaps, obvious... are you able to take the human
component out of this? If 2 reminders were not enough to get the humans
to act, I'm not sure the current methodology is sustainable.

Mark.

On 8/Apr/19 17:46, Cedrick Adrien Mbeyet wrote:
>
> Dear AFRINIC community,
>
>
> Find below postmortem report on the incident that happen on 06 April
> 2019.
>
>  
>
> The AFRINIC RPKI engine has an offline part that has to be renewed on
> a monthly bases. The process is known, documented and automated
> reminders set. The system is set to send 2 reminders each month, one
> 15 days prior to the expiry date and the second one 7 days before
> expiry. On the 2nd half of March, the monitoring system sent a
> reminder to perform the offline refresh but this was not acted upon.
>
>  
>
>  
>
> On Saturday 06 April 2019,  Certificate revocation List (CRL) and the
> manifest file of AFRINIC RPKI repository expired (around 07:24AM UTC).
> Our monitoring system picked this up. The immediate action was to
> generate new certificates and manifest file and upload them onto RPKI
> engine system.
>
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[Community-Discuss] Fwd: [apops] APRICOT 2019 Call for Presentations

2018-10-15 Thread Mark Tinka

FYI - APRICOT 2019 Call for Presentations. Thanks.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[apops] APRICOT 2019 Call for Presentations
Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:43:08 +1000
From:   Philip Smith 
To: ap...@apops.net

Hi everyone,

The call for presentations for APRICOT 2019 has been published - we are
all looking forward to receiving your presentation and tutorial
proposals and welcoming you to APRICOT 2019 in Daejeon, Korea, in February.

Thanks!

Mark, Marijana, Philip
APRICOT 2019 PC Chairs
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Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies
(APRICOT)
25th - 28th February 2019, Daejeon, Korea
https://2019.apricot.net

CALL FOR PAPERS
===

The APRICOT 2019 Programme Committee is now seeking contributions for
Presentations and Tutorials for the APRICOT 2019 Conference.

We are looking for presenters who would:

- Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;
- Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;
- Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics;
- Lead informal Birds of Feather break out sessions.

Please submit on-line at:

http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=79

CONFERENCE MILESTONES
-

Call for Papers Opens:   Now
Draft Program Published: As Papers Confirmed
Final Deadline for Submissions:  25 January 2019
Final Program Published:  1 February 2019
Final Slides Received:   15 February 2019

*NOTE THAT REGARDLESS OF DEADLINES, SLOTS ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME,
FIRST SERVED BASIS*

PROGRAMME CONTENT
-

The APRICOT Conference Programme consists of three parts, these being
the Peering Forum, Tutorials, and Conference Tracks.

Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies:

- IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and Operations
- Internet backbone operations
- Peering, Interconnects and IXPs
- Content Distribution Network technology & operations
- Research on Internet Operations and Deployment
- Network security (NSP-SEC, DDoS, Anti-Spam, Anti-Malware)
- IPv6 deployment on fixed and Wireless/Cellular networks
- DNS / DNSSEC
- Access and Transport Technologies, including Cable/DSL, LTE/5G,
  wireless, metro ethernet, fibre, segment routing
- Software Defined Networking / Network Function Virtualisaton
- Content & Service Delivery (Multicast, Voice, Video, "telepresence",
  Gaming) and Cloud Computing

CfP SUBMISSION
--

Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be
provided with CfP submissions otherwise the submission will be
rejected immediately.  For work in progress, the most current
information available at time of submission is acceptable.

All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only.
Slides must be of original work, with all company confidential marks
removed.

Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for
publication on the APRICOT website.

Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots
will be filled well before the final submission deadline.  The PC may,
at their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final
submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely,
important, or of critical operational importance.  Every year we turn
away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots
before the deadline.  Presenters should endeavour to get material into
the PC sooner rather than later.

Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme
Committee by e-mail at:

pc-chairs at apricot.net

We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.

Mark Tinka, Marijana Novakovic & Philip Smith
Co-Chairs, APRICOT 2019 Programme Committee
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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG: Live Stream The Conference Now!

2018-09-23 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

For those who would like to attend the meeting remotely, the live stream
for the conference is now available on our web site:

    http://www.safnog.org/

We look forward to you joining us online.

Cheers,

Mark Tinka
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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG: 4 Days To Go!

2018-09-19 Thread Mark Tinka

Hi all.

With just about 4 days to go until the 4th edition of the SAFNOG
meeting, in collaboration with EANOG and tzNOG, we are geared for an
exciting week in warm & sunny Dar Es Salaam.

The agenda will cover key topics for the region, such as:

  * Is Africa's continued telecommunications investment into Europe wise
for the continent?
  * Data centre infrastructure development in the region.
  * What the recent IRR changes at RIPE mean for Africa.
  * The advances of IPv4 brokers into Africa, using AFRINIC very own
resources in doing so.
  * e.t.c.

More details about the meeting, registration, venue and agenda at:

    http://www.safnog.org/

If you haven't yet, please register your attendance to join us next week.

We look forward to seeing you all there.

Cheers,

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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG Registration Now Open!

2018-08-02 Thread Mark Tinka

Hi all.

Pleased to inform you that registration for the upcoming
SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG meeting in Dar Es Salaam, 24th - 29th September, is
now open.

You may register at the URL below:

    http://www.safnog.org/

We look forward to seeing you there.

Mark.
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Re: [Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-4 + EANOG, tzNOG & TISPA Call for Papers! - Update!

2018-07-04 Thread Mark Tinka

As an update:

Please note you can submit your papers at the URL below:

    https://papers.safnog.org/user/login.php?event=76

Mark.

On 4/Jul/18 14:43, Mark Tinka wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> The SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG Programme Committee are now seeking
> contributions for Presentations and Tutorials for the
> SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG 2018 Conference.
>
> We are looking for presenters who would:
>
>     - Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;
>     - Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;
>     - Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics.
>
>     *Conference Milestones*
>     Call for Papers Opens Now
>     Draft Program Published As papers are
> confirmed
>     Final Deadline for Submissions    10 September,
> 2018  
>     Final Program Published 17 September, 2018
>     Final Slides Received  21
> September, 2018
>
> NOTE THAT REGARDLESS OF DEADLINES, SLOTS ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME,
> FIRST SERVED BASIS
>
> *Program Material*
>
> The SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG Conference Programme consists of two parts,
> these being the Tutorials and Conference Tracks.
>
> Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies:
>
>     - IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and Operations
>     - IPv6 deployment and transition technologies
>     - Internet backbone operations
>     - ISP and Carrier services
>     - IXPs and Peering
>     - Research on Internet Operations and Deployment
>     - Software Defined Networking / Network Function Virtualisaton
>     - Network security issues (NSP-SEC, DDoS, Anti-Spam, Anti-Malware)
>     - DNS / DNSSEC
>     - Internet policy (Security, Regulation, Content Management,
> Addressing, etc)
>     - Access and Transport Technologies, including Cable/DSL, LTE/5G,
> wireless, metro ethernet, fibre, segment routing
>     - Content & Service Delivery (Multicast, Voice, Video,
> "telepresence", Gaming) and Cloud Computing
>
> *CfP Submissions*
>
> Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be
> provided with CfP submissions otherwise the Programme Committee will
> be unable to review the submission. For avoidance of doubt this means
> that submissions which do not include slides will be rejected
> immediately. For work in progress, the most current information
> available at time of submission is acceptable.
>
> All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only
>
> Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for
> publication on the SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG websites.
>
> Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots
> will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC may,
> at their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final
> submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely,
> important, or of critical operational importance. Every year we turn
> away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots
> before the deadline. Presenters should endeavour to get material into
> the PC sooner rather than later.
>
> Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme
> Committee by e-mail at:
>
>     *pc-chairs at safnog.org*
>
> We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark Tinka
> On Behalf of the SAFNOG/EANOG/tzNOG Organizing Committee

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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-4 + EANOG, tzNOG & TISPA Call for Papers!

2018-07-04 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

The SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG Programme Committee are now seeking
contributions for Presentations and Tutorials for the
SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG 2018 Conference.

We are looking for presenters who would:

    - Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;
    - Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;
    - Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics.

    *Conference Milestones*
    Call for Papers Opens Now
    Draft Program Published As papers are
confirmed
    Final Deadline for Submissions    10 September, 2018  
    Final Program Published 17 September, 2018
    Final Slides Received  21 September,
2018

NOTE THAT REGARDLESS OF DEADLINES, SLOTS ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME,
FIRST SERVED BASIS

*Program Material*

The SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG Conference Programme consists of two parts,
these being the Tutorials and Conference Tracks.

Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies:

    - IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and Operations
    - IPv6 deployment and transition technologies
    - Internet backbone operations
    - ISP and Carrier services
    - IXPs and Peering
    - Research on Internet Operations and Deployment
    - Software Defined Networking / Network Function Virtualisaton
    - Network security issues (NSP-SEC, DDoS, Anti-Spam, Anti-Malware)
    - DNS / DNSSEC
    - Internet policy (Security, Regulation, Content Management,
Addressing, etc)
    - Access and Transport Technologies, including Cable/DSL, LTE/5G,
wireless, metro ethernet, fibre, segment routing
    - Content & Service Delivery (Multicast, Voice, Video,
"telepresence", Gaming) and Cloud Computing

*CfP Submissions*

Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be provided
with CfP submissions otherwise the Programme Committee will be unable to
review the submission. For avoidance of doubt this means that
submissions which do not include slides will be rejected immediately.
For work in progress, the most current information available at time of
submission is acceptable.

All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format only

Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for
publication on the SAFNOG-4/EANOG/tzNOG websites.

Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots
will be filled well before the final submission deadline. The PC may, at
their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final
submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely,
important, or of critical operational importance. Every year we turn
away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots before
the deadline. Presenters should endeavour to get material into the PC
sooner rather than later.

Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme Committee
by e-mail at:

    *pc-chairs at safnog.org*

We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.

Cheers,

Mark Tinka
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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-4 + EANOG, tzNOG & TISPA Meeting Announcement

2018-06-20 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that SAFNOG-4, in collaboration
with EANOG (East Africa Network Operators Group) and tzNOG (Tanzania
Network Operators Group), and hosted by TISPA (Tanzania Internet Service
Providers Association) will be held between the 24th - 29th September,
2018, in the warm and sunny city of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.

What is exciting about this year's SAFNOG meeting is that it will be
partnering with EANOG and tzNOG, to include both plenary and workshop
sessions during the week, as part of the agenda.

The main plenary meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Dar Es Salaam
hotel between 24th - 26th September, while the the workshop will be held
at the Bank of Tanzania building between 26th - 29th September, 2018.

Details about the event registration and agenda will be made available
at these locations:

    - www.safnog.org
    - www.tznog.or.tz
    - www.eanog.org

Please mark your calendars.

SAFNOG, EANOG, tzNOG and TISPA look forward to seeing you in Dar Es Salaam.

Cheers,

Mark Tinka
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Re: [Community-Discuss] Complaint from staff member

2018-03-15 Thread Mark Tinka

I'm in full agreement with Evelyn, and the rest of the community, that
seek answers from an independent investigation based on these
allegations, sooner rather than later, particularly on the back of the
upcoming gathering in Dakar next month.

To allay speculation, ad hoc gratuitous updates from the AFRINIC
Executive on the progress of this investigation would be appreciated by
the community.

Mark.

On 13/Mar/18 19:31, Evelyn Namara wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> As a woman, it was very uncomfortable reading the allegations
> especially since among allegations are sexual harassment allegations.
> In light of what is happening worldwide on the same topic, we need to
> speak out boldly against this.
>
> Here's hoping that the right structures are in place to ensure women
> at the AfriNIC workplace are protected.
>
> That being said; I wait patiently to read the full report on the
> investigations.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 8:21 PM, DANIEL NANGHAKA  > wrote:
>
> There is loss of trust in the board. This is the point where a
> critical review of AFRINIC mandate must be done. 
>
> I think we need to clean up our house and not taking side clean
> our board.
>
>
> On Tuesday, March 13, 2018, Badru Ntege
> >
> wrote:
>
> Thanks
>
> I still think at this stage until board pronounced itself. 
> Even CEO should wait for board.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 13 Mar 2018, at 20:03, Alan Barrett
> >
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Badru,
> >
> > My response was from me as CEO.
> >
> > Alan Barrett
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[Community-Discuss] Fwd: [apops] APRICOT 2018 Call for Presentations

2017-10-23 Thread Mark Tinka

Greetings - FYI.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[apops] APRICOT 2018 Call for Presentations
Date:   Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:27:00 +1000
From:   Philip Smith <pfsi...@gmail.com>
To: ap...@apops.net

Hi everyone,

The call for presentations for APRICOT 2018 has now been published - a
copy is below FYI.

philip
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Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies
(APRICOT)
25th - 28th February 2018, Kathmandu, Nepal
https://2018.apricot.net

CALL FOR PAPERS
===

The APRICOT 2018 Programme Committee is now seeking contributions for
Presentations and Tutorials for the APRICOT 2018 Conference.

We are looking for presenters who would:

- Offer a technical tutorial on an appropriate topic;
- Participate in the technical conference sessions as a speaker;
- Convene and chair panel sessions of relevant topics.

Please submit on-line at:

http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=63

CONFERENCE MILESTONES
-

Call for Papers Opens:   Now
Draft Program Published: As Papers Confirmed
Final Deadline for Submissions:  26 January 2018
Final Program Published:  2 February 2018
Final Slides Received:   16 February 2018

*NOTE THAT REGARDLESS OF DEADLINES, SLOTS ARE FILLED ON A FIRST COME,
FIRST SERVED BASIS*

PROGRAMME MATERIAL
--

The APRICOT Conference Programme consists of three parts, these being
the Peering Forum, Tutorials, and Conference Tracks.

Topics proposed must be relevant to Internet Operations and Technologies:

- IPv4 / IPv6 Routing and Operations
- IPv6 deployment and transition technologies
- Internet backbone operations
- ISP and Carrier services
- IXPs and Peering
- Research on Internet Operations and Deployment
- Software Defined Networking / Network Function Virtualisaton
- Network security issues (NSP-SEC, DDoS, Anti-Spam, Anti-Malware)
- DNS / DNSSEC
- Internet policy (Security, Regulation, Content Management,
  Addressing, etc)
- Access and Transport Technologies, including Cable/DSL, LTE/5G,
  wireless, metro ethernet, fibre, segment routing
- Content & Service Delivery (Multicast, Voice, Video, "telepresence",
  Gaming) and Cloud Computing

CfP SUBMISSION
--

Draft slides for both tutorials and conference sessions MUST be
provided with CfP submissions otherwise the Programme Committee will
be unable to review the submission. For avoidance of doubt this means
that submissions which do not include slides will be rejected
immediately.  For work in progress, the most current information
available at time of submission is acceptable.

All draft and complete slides must be submitted in PDF format
only.

Final slides are to be provided by the specified deadline for
publication on the APRICOT website.

Prospective presenters should note that the majority of speaking slots
will be filled well before the final submission deadline.  The PC may,
at their discretion, retain a limited number of slots up to the final
submission deadline for presentations that are exceptionally timely,
important, or of critical operational importance.  Every year we turn
away submissions, due to filling up all available programme slots
before the deadline.  Presenters should endeavour to get material into
the PC sooner rather than later.

Any questions or concerns should be addressed to the Programme
Committee by e-mail at:

pc-chairs at apricot.net

We look forward to receiving your presentation proposals.

Mark Tinka, Jonny Martin & Philip Smith
Co-Chairs, APRICOT 2018 Programme Committee
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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-3: Attendees & Speakers

2017-09-03 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

A list of all currently registered attendees is available for your
inspection here:

http://safnog.org/attendees.php/

This list is updated daily, so do check regularly to see if there are
any personalities you would like to meet at this year's SAFNOG meeting.

Also, details on each of the speakers at this year's meeting are
available here:

http://safnog.org/speakers.html

With just 2 days to go, we look forward to seeing you all in Durban!

Cheers,

Mark Tinka
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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-3: Agenda Finalized

2017-08-31 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

Pleased to inform you that the SAFNOG-3 agenda is now full!

You can view the agenda here:

http://safnog.org/

We have a very detailed and exciting line-up, sure to appeal to
different parts of our community, such as:

- Data Centres.
- Peering.
- IPv4 Address exhaustion.
- SDN/NFV.
- FTTH.
- Cloud Computing.
- IPv6.
- Internet Security.
- DNS.
- BGP.
- e.t.c.

We also have two very powerful keynote speakers delivering critical and
vital information at this year's meeting:

- Our opening keynote will be presented by Mr. Pascal Hoba, CEO
  of UbuntuNet Alliance.

- Our closing keynote will be presented by Mr. Alan Barrett, CEO
  of AFRINIC.

Bio information about all of this year's speakers will be available in
the coming days. Please check the web site regularly for these updates.

Please register your attendance for SAFNOG-3, if you have not yet done so.

We look forward to seeing you all in Durban, next week!

Cheers,

Mark Tinka
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[Community-Discuss] Network & Socialize @ SAFNOG-3

2017-08-18 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

The Internet is built on mutually fulfilling human connections, and at
this year's SAFNOG meeting, we look forward to further enhancing these
opportunities.

There are a number of networking and social engagements planned for you,
our delegates, at SAFNOG-3 in Durban:

a) SAFNOG-3 will be co-located with iWeek, at the very same
   venue. You will have the chance to interact with several
   Internet personalities attending iWeek to understand their
   perspective.

b) Prior to the start of each day, as well as during the lunch
   and coffee breaks, you will be able to surround yourself with
   fellow delegates and exchange ideas about the topics that
   will have been presented, or your own personal and
   professional experiences working on the Internet.

c) NAPAfrica, Africa's largest Internet exchange point, will
   hold a Beers for Peers event at the California Dreaming venue
   in Durban. You are all invited to attend, free of charge,
   upon presentation of a ticket which will be handed to you at
   the registration counter.

d) SEACOM, Eastern Africa's first submarine cable system, will
   hold the Closing Social Dinner at the Joint Jazz Cafe in
   Durban. You are all invited to attend, free of charge, upon
   presentation of a ticket which will be handed to you at the
   registration counter.

e) For a bit of fun, an iPhone 7 Plus Jet Black, 256GB and iPad
   Pro 12.9-inch Space Gray, 512GB, Wi-Fi + Cellular, will be up
   for grabs in a lucky draw at the NAPAfrica and SEACOM events,
   respectively. So please carry your business cards and stand a
   chance to win one of these cool devices.

For more details on the agenda and timing listings, please see:

http://safnog.org/#section-agenda

Do register your attendance as soon as you can.

We look forward to seeing you in Durban.

Cheers,

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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-3: Program Agenda

2017-08-02 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the SAFNOG-3 program
agenda has taken shape, and is already 70% full.

You can view the program agenda at the URL below:

http://safnog.org/#section-agenda

If you are interested in presenting a paper at this year's SAFNOG
meeting, please send your submission to the SAFNOG-3 Program Committee
as soon as possible, at the URL below:

https://papers.safnog.org/user/login.php?event=62

We expect to have a 100%-filled program by this time next week.

We look forward to seeing you in Durban.

Cheers,

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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-3: Registration Now Open!

2017-07-17 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the SAFNOG-3 Registration is
now open!

Please note that registration for SAFNOG-3 is free of charge. I'd like
to extend my thanks to the SAFNOG and iWeek teams for making this
possible for our community.

You may register your attendance at the link below:

http://safnog.org/

When you begin to input your registration details into the system, you
will notice a drop-down menu called "Session Interest". Please select
the "SAFNOG-3 (Tuesday and Wednesday)" option to confirm your
registration to the SAFNOG-3 meeting.

We look forward to seeing you in Durban.

Cheers,

Mark Tinka
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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-3: Call for Papers Now Out!

2017-06-26 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the SAFNOG-3 Call for Papers
is now out.

You may review the CfP and all relevant submission details at the link
below:

http://safnog.org/papers.html

We are working hard to put together an exciting, educational,
informative and memorable agenda for this year's meeting.

We look forward to receiving your submissions, and seeing you in Durban
for our next meeting.

Cheers,

Mark Tinka
On Behalf of the SAFNOG Management Committee


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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-3: Sponsorship Opportunities

2017-06-20 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Sponsorship Matrix for
SAFNOG-3 is now available at the link below:

http://www.safnog.org/matrix.html

If you are interested in collaborating with SAFNOG-3 as a sponsor,
please do not hesitate to reach out to:

secretariat at safnog dot org

Any and all support will be sincerely appreciated.

We look forward to seeing you in Durban for our next meeting.

Cheers,

Mark Tinka
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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-3: 4th - 7th September, 2017 - Durban, South Africa!

2017-05-14 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that SAFNOG-3 will be held
between the 4th - 7th September, 2017, in the warm and sunny city of
Durban, South Africa.

The meeting will be held at the Southern Sun Elangeni and Maharani, a
spectacular landmark on the Golden Mile.

What is exciting about this year's SAFNOG meeting is that it will be
partnering with iWeek 2017. Both SAFNOG and iWeek will run together,
side-by-side.

Details about registration and the program agenda will be made available
on both the SAFNOG and iWeek web sites, as well as this mailing list.

Please mark your calendars.

To stay in the loop, please keep tabs on:

http://safnog.org/

SAFNOG and iWeek look forward to seeing you in Durban.

Cheers,

Mark Tinka
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[Community-Discuss] Fwd: APRICOT 2017 programme reminder

2017-01-16 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

FYI.

Mark.

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:[apnic-talk] APRICOT 2017 programme reminder
Date:   Sun, 15 Jan 2017 16:51:22 -1000
From:   Philip Smith <pfsi...@gmail.com>
To: apnic-t...@apnic.net <apnic-t...@apnic.net>

Hi everyone,

Just a reminder that APRICOT 2017 begins in around one month from now,
and that we still have some presentation opportunities available!

If you or a colleague would like to present something of interest and
relevant at APRICOT 2017, be it a conference talk or a tutorial, or host
a BoF, please submit on-line at:

   http://papers.apricot.net/user/login.php?event=48

The deadline for submissions is 30th January, as we mentioned in the
CfP. However we are filling presentation slots on a first come first
served basis, so if you would like to ensure your place on the programme
please submit your presentation asap.

More information at the CfP page for APRICOT 2017:

   https://2017.apricot.net/program/call-for-papers/

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Philip Smith & Mark Tinka
APRICOT 2017 Programme Chairs
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Re: [Community-Discuss] IPv6 Chapter 254

2016-10-12 Thread Mark Tinka

On 12/Oct/16 13:31, Andrew Alston wrote:

>  
>
> On this map, you will see there are only two countries in Africa that
> have in excess of half a percent v6 penetration levels.  One is Sudan,
> and one in Zimbabwe.  Zimbabwe currently runs at 4.76% penetration and
> climbing – beyond that the rest of Africa has effectively no real
> penetration.  Now, compare that to the rest of the world where v4 is
> depleted, and you see a vastly different picture.  The global average
> deployment rate is sitting at 12% and climbing, whereas all it took to
> **double** the aggregate penetration rate in Africa was the v6
> enabling of 10 or 15 thousand FTTH users in Zimbabwe.  This speaks
> volumes, we have v4, and its slowing us down in getting v6 deployed.
>

Given that consumers don't generally get a say in when IPv6 can be
enabled, that helps a lot. Much of Europe, North America and Asia-Pac
have sufficient broadband into people's homes that makes all the difference.

A number of major mobile operators in that part of the world have also
turned on IPv6.

The majority of Internet access in Africa happens in the mobile space
today. If we want to see the needle shift even a hair's width, mobile
operators in Africa need to enable IPv6. As of today, I have neither
seen nor heard of any plans from any major or small mobile network
operator in Africa re: turning on IPv6, never mind have a strategy or plan.

If wire-line and non-GSM wireless service providers in Africa were to
enable IPv6 for their broadband customers, there would be an improvement
in the outlook (by your own experience in Zimbabwe), but not as much as
if the mobile operators came to the party. It is absurd that there is no
interest from this group, considering that the thinking is that it is
cheaper to spend millions of $$ to sustain NAT4 than it is to
roll out IPv6.

Mark.
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Re: [Community-Discuss] Liquid Telecom warns of looming address shortage - Daily Nation

2016-10-10 Thread Mark Tinka

On 10/Oct/16 09:01, Saul Stein wrote:

>  
>
> I know that some ISPs give v6 to all customers, I wonder how many of
> them use it?
>

We assign each enterprise customer an IPv6 prefix. I'd estimate use of
it at 0% today (even there about 5% of them ask for it).

Our service provider customers are more interested in getting the IPv6
BGP session going, and announcing their IPv6 allocation. I'd estimate
that at about 50% (much of which comes through pestering them).

>  
>
> I have spoken to a few corporate customers to try and understand the
> barriers and interest.
>
> Some, its bureaucracy different departments for LAN, firewall and then
> change control etc, for some its time – simply not high on the
> priorities board to allocate recourses, others its training and then
> the previous issues.
>

In general, it is a lack of interest.

Mark.
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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-3 Deferred to April 2017

2016-07-31 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

I, with much regret, have to inform you that due to unavoidable
circumstances, the SAFNOG-3 meeting has been deferred to our usual slot
in April of 2017.

Details have been posted to our web site at the link below:

http://www.safnog.org/safnog-3-deferred-to-april-2017/

On behalf of the SAFNOG Management Committee, I sincerely apologize for
the inconvenience this will most certainly cause you, and look forward
to seeing you at the meeting in April of 2017.

For all delegates that had already registered to attend the meeting this
August, you will be automatically refunded in full.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to send an e-mail to:

secretariat at safnog dot org

Details on the SAFNOG-3 meeting in April of 2017 will be communicated in
the coming weeks.

Mark Tinka
On Behalf of the SAFNOG Management Committee

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[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-3: Registration Now Open!

2016-04-29 Thread Mark Tinka

Hello all.

Pleased to inform you that registration for the SAFNOG-3 meeting, to be
held in Windhoek, Namibia, 8th - 10th August, 2016, is now open.

To register your participation for SAFNOG-3, please visit the link below:

http://www.safnog.org/

Please note that you will be able to view who else is attending SAFNOG-3
at the bottom of the registration web site.

We look forward to seeing you all in Windhoek.

Cheers,

Mark Tinka
On Behalf of the SAFNOG Management Committee

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Re: [Community-Discuss] Incorrect Public Listing of Members' Standing

2015-11-24 Thread Mark Tinka



On 23/Nov/15 17:08, Dewole Ajao [Bandwidth Consortium] wrote:

> A few minutes ago, I was looking at
> http://www.afrinic.net/en/about-us/our-members and was shocked to find
> so many "reputable" organizations labelled "Not in good standing".
>
> After snickering at a lot of the big names, I scrolled down to find
> that my organization which has *never* fallen behind on AfriNIC
> membership payments is classified as "Not in good standing".
>
> Could the responsible persons within AfriNIC please urgently update
> the displayed status of members? If the list cannot be kept up to
> date, the status should be removed rather than embarrassing members
> that are in fact committed to AfriNIC's sustenance. I'm posting this
> to the community list to remind those that need to pay up that the
> world sees them as well as to let members in good standing know that
> they world might also be seeing them in a bad light.

Agree.

I believe the data is incorrect.

I don't mind naming & shaming, but if we must, the state of standing
needs to be made dynamic, in case this is currently a manual process.

Mark.

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