[governance] Fwd: [AFRINIC-announce] AFRINIC and ITU-BDT to solidify collaborative efforts on promoting and facilitating IPv6 deployment throughout Africa

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From: Thuron Vymala <vymala at afrinic.net>
Date: Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:43 AM
Subject: [AFRINIC-announce] AFRINIC and ITU-BDT to solidify
collaborative efforts on promoting and facilitating IPv6 deployment
throughout Africa
To: announce at afrinic.net


The CEO of AFRINIC signs today a Letter of Intent with the ITU-BDT
Director Mr Ibrahima Sanou to promote and support IPv6 Deployment
throughout Africa


Geneva, Switzerland, 12 May 2013 – The International Telecommunication
Union today signed a letter of intent with the African Network
Information Centre (AFRINIC) on the promotion of IPv6. The letter of
intent seeks to establish a high-level framework of cooperation to
carry out a number of activities to improve the implementation of
IPv6, through the provision of technical assistance to African
countries.

“Areas of cooperation include, among others, the development and
delivery of joint capacity-building programmes and knowledge sharing,”
said Mr Brahima Sanou, Director of the Telecommunications Development
Bureau (BDT). “Accelerating the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is an
important matter for ITU Member States and Sector Members.”

“Currently, 99.4 per cent of physical objects that may one day be part
of the “Internet of Things” are still unconnected,” explained Mr
Sanou. “Moreover, large areas of the world remain unserved or
under-served by Internet connections.   One of the key technologies
that can enable progress in Internet connectivity is IPv6. IPv6 will
ensure better and increased connectivity, better access to resources
and to knowledge.”

"The future of the Internet is on IPv6 and Africa cannot afford to be
left behind," said Mr Adiel Akplogan, AFRINIC Chief Executive Officer.
"This agreement is an important milestone in AFRINIC's cooperation
with ITU. As the Internet is becoming more and more critical to our
emerging economies, it is equally critical for our operators, public
or private, to safeguard the Internet’s future by building networks
that are scalable, resilient and ready to run with the new version of
the protocol - IPv6. This is the only way that we can ensure open
access and a permission- less innovation capability for the millions
of future Internet users coming from our region.”

Since its inception AFRINIC has invested heavily in efforts in
building human capital. This investment is meant to provide the
knowledge and skills necessary to manage the Internet in the African
and Indian Ocean region. Conducted under the ambit of capacity
building, the programme is supported by AFRINIC’s avowed mission “to
support Internet Technology usage and development across the
continent”. This means that AFRINIC has made training a central part
of its activities. Since 2005 AFRINIC has held almost 100 trainings
and workshops in 50 countries around Africa, training more than 2 000
Engineers.

Every device connected to the Internet is identified by a unique IP
address, used to route the data packets globally across the net. The
current addressing system, called IP version 4, or IPv4 was deployed
in 1983. However, the depletion of IPv4 addresses has been a concern
since the late 1980s, when the Internet started to experience dramatic
growth. IPv6 was developed to solve the crisis of IPv4 exhaustion.

Future growth of the Internet will require IPv6, with its extremely
large address space — it exceeds 340 trillion, trillion, trillion (or
340 undecillion addresses). To give a more tangible idea of the scale,
some have compared the number of available IPv6 addresses to the
number of grains of sand on the planet.

The BDT Director and the Director of the Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau (TSB) have initiated a joint project to help
developing countries. The two Directors have also established a
website that provides information about global activities being
undertaken by relevant entities in the Internet community, for
example, RIRs, local Internet registries, operator groups, and the
Internet Society (ISOC).

The letter of intent was signed by Mr Brahima Sanou and Mr Adiel
Akplogan at ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Read the full
Letter of Intent.

 For more information please visit our website www.afrinic.net


Vymala Thuron
Marketing and PR Manager, AFRINIC Ltd.
t:  +230 403 5128 | f: +230 466 6758 | tt: @afrinic | w: www.afrinic.net
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Skype: vymala.thuron

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