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	IANA \| Report on Recognition of AfriNIC as a Regional Internet Registry \| 8 April 2005
		The AfriNIC organizational structure is set to encourage a bottom-up self governance management model where policies and other organizational functions are determined by the community in general and members who elect representatives that sit on the Board of Directors.
		AfriNIC also submitted a comprehensive, multi-phase transition plan, which was endorsed by the ICANN Board when it gave provisional recognition in September 20054.
		AfriNIC has developed and implemented a comprehensive set of policies and procedures to ensure that the information it collects in the registration process will be kept in strict confidence, and used for registration purposes only.
	www.iana.org /reports/afrinic-report-08apr05.htm (1852 words)

	AfriNIC Moves Forward and Promotes Regional Integration
		AfriNIC CEO Adiel Akplogan was pleased with the progress thus far and the positive response from the Africa region.
		We commend AfriNIC staff and board for their efforts, and look forward to welcoming AfriNIC as a full member of the RIR community." Reflecting the value of cooperative regional integration, AfriNIC has centres of Technical and Administrative Operations in four African countries: Mauritious, Ghana, South Africa, and Egypt.
		AfriNIC members will determine regional policy for the distribution of IP addresses to their region's Internet providers and AfriNIC has already adopted some rules that are specific to the Africa region to address the unique needs of Africa's Internet communities.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-18-2004/0002283968&EDATE= (401 words)

	APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Alan Levin of AfriNIC's financial committee says the cut was designed to attract new members to participate in the organisation's activities because turnout at this week's meeting in Maputo, Mozambique was disappointingly low.
		As AfriNIC begins its first year of operations, the Board and executives are acutely aware of the need to monitor finances closely.
		The formal proceedings of the AfriNIC meeting in Maputo closed with the election of two board members to replace the out-going representatives from the Central and Indian Ocean regions.
	www.apc.org /english/rights/africa/index.shtml?apc=n21815e_1&x=32411 (843 words)

	Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8)
		Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8) Jeroen Massar
		Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8) Stephane Bortzmeyer
		Re: New IANA IPv4 allocation to AfriNIC (41/8) Nils Ketelsen
	www.mail-archive.com /nanog@merit.edu/msg31518.html (135 words)

	Vanguard Online Edition : HI-TECH:- Internet in Africa to become more accessible says AfriNIC
		Adiel Aklogan, Chief Executive Director of AfriNIC indicated that once AfriNIC took charge, ISPs would not be asked to justify why they should be allocated IP addresses as Internet Protocol registries based in America and Europe are wont to do.
		AfriNIC is expected to receive recognition from ICANN by next April.
		In conclusion, Akplogan emphasized that AfriNIC will not be the ICANN of Africa but will be woven into the fabric of the African Information Society.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/fe208122004.html (503 words)

	ICANN \| AfriNIC Application for Recognition as Regional Internet Registry Public Comment Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In September 2004, the ICANN Board awarded provisional recognition to AfriNIC, with the expectation that they would fulfil their planned transition from the RIRs previously serving that region during early 2005.
		AfriNIC and the Numbers Resource Organisation (NRO) recently announced that the three RIRs previously serving the AfriNIC region (APNIC, ARIN, and the RIPE NCC) transferred all RIR services to AfriNIC on 21 February 2005.
		AfriNIC has now submitted to the ICANN Board an updated Application for Recognition, which includes summaries of their prior submissions, and details of their fulfilment of the ICP-2 Criteria for recognition.
	www.icann.org /announcements/announcement-14mar05.htm (253 words)

	African internet users to save US$500m a year
		AfriNic is the fifth RIR and is expected to handle all issues relating to Africa.The approval was widely expected after the Internet Assigned Names Authority (IANA) gave a clean bill of health in its public presentation at the meeting in Mar Del Plata, Argentina.
		The idea of AfriNic was mooted by a small group of Africans attending a meeting in Canada in 1995.
		AfriNic is currently registered and domiciled in Mauritius with other offices in South Africa and Egypt.
	www.namibian.com.na /2005/April/marketplace/05A8E2A054.html (625 words)

	Number Resource Organization Document Store - NRO14 - AfriNIC Progress Report, submitted to ICANN 20 July 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The intent of this report is to provide you and the ICANN Board of Directors a summary of the recent activities in regard to the establishment of a Regional Internet Registry (RIR) in Africa.
		Using the AfriNIC PDP, policies relating to the assignment/allocation of number resources (IPv4, IPv6, and ASN) were discussed and adopted.
		The AfriNIC technical staff has interacted with the NRO Engineering Coordination Group to plan technical transition activities such as the transfer of the reverse DNS administration to AfriNIC.
	www.nro.net /documents/nro14.html (582 words)

	APC Africa ICT Policy Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		AfriNIC is managed by a board elected from the six identified sub-regions of the continent (Northern, Western, Central, Eastern, Southern and Indian Ocean).
		AfriNIC: AfriNIC is the emerging RIR that aims to manage IP resources in Africa and the Indian Ocean regions.
		AfriNIC is a not-for-profit and non-governmental membership based organisation set up by African network operators and incorporated in Mauritius.
	www.apc.org /english/rights/africa/index.shtml?apc=21869s30084e_1&x=31845 (453 words)

	SNA: Africa set to take control of own domain names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		AfriNIC is an African body aimed at administering the process of assigning internet names and numbers to African websites.
		The Egyptian civil servant is optimistic about the future of AfriNIC but believes that it needs technical and material support from Icann in order to be able to launch its services efficiently.
		He explains that, although AfriNIC will not be accountable to Icann, the two organisations will need to work together closely for the benefit of the international internet community.
	www.schoolnetafrica.net /index.php?id=1355 (710 words)

	Proposal for AfriNIC
		Where a Member of AfriNIC an entity other than a natural person, then the Member shall appoint a person as their representative to AfriNIC, and that person shall be eligible for election or appointment in the Member's stead, and shall be eligible to attend and vote at meetings in the Member's stead.
		AfriNIC will be a non-profit entity, and the membership, registration, and maintenance fees proposed in this funding model are to function solely as a cost-recovery mechanism to ensure the continued operation of AfriNIC.
		AfriNIC shall develop appropriate policies and procedures for the reclamation of public resources such as IP address space and AS numbers that had been allocated to entities that no longer exist, entities that cannot be contacted, entities that have not paid their fees, and entities that no longer need those resources.
	www.isoc.org /INET97/ans97/afrinic.htm (3201 words)

	SDNPAF: Fw: AfriNIC Update - 15 July 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		At the suggestion of both members of the AfriNIC Interim > Board of Trustees and the friendly folks at the other RIRs, I made > sure to stress the fairly lengthy process we have been through over > the last few years to build continent-wide consensus and support for > AfriNIC.
		It might be worthwhile for the AfriNIC > Interim Board of Trustees to schedule some similar teleconferences > during the rest of this year, to ensure that progress towards an > operating AfriNIC stays on track.
		AfriNIC should note that it can (and I believe should) > still make an effort to translate documents into other languages and > provide (for example) French and Spanish language support for African > LIRs.
	www.sdnp.undp.org /lstarch/sdnpaf/msg00799.html (2026 words)

	Tectonic -- Linux and open source news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		AfriNIC, a non-profit, neutral body tasked with managing IP addressing for the continent, has been given a one year lease by Cyber Tower Parks of Mauritius, a government-operated corporation.
		AfriNIC has submitted its application to ICANN to be recognised as the fifth Regional Internet Registry.
		The AfriNIC application was strongly supported by the Number Resource Organisation (www.nro.net), the representative organisation of the four Regional Internet Registries already operating.
	www.tectonic.co.za /default.php?action=view&id=339&s=news (276 words)

	Internet Resources Administration - AfriNIC Transtion
		AfriNIC is the African, neutral, not-for-profit organisation that has been proposed by the African community to act in the best interests of the community for the purpose of managing the IP addressing in the continent.
		More information about AfriNIC can be found on their website http://www.afrinic.net/.
		On 8 April 2005, during the ICANN Board meeting in Mar del Plata, Argentina, AfriNIC was finally recognised as the fifth Regional Internet Registry (RIR).
	www.ripe.net /info/resource-admin/afrinic (163 words)

	InfoWorld Nederland
		AfriNIC's official recognition is slated to be made at ICANN's annual meeting in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, in April, according to Kieran Baker, ICANN's general manager for communications and public participation.
		AfriNIC has been operating in a "request-evaluation" phase in the African region but has not yet fully been recognized by ICANN as an RIR.
		AfriNIC completed the transition plan by taking over IP number resource management in the African region from APNIC, ARIN and RIPE NCC.
	www.infoworld.nl /idgns/bericht.phtml?id=00256F6C005C22FC00256FCB004AAE3A (388 words)

	DomainInformer.com: ICANN moves to equip AfriNIC for its new mission
		The full recognition of AfriNIC by ICANN's Board of Directors at its recent meeting in Argentina represents the culmination of efforts by the African and global Internet community over several years to bring local management of Internet numbering resources to the Africa region.
		AfriNIC is a successful cooperative effort developed by the African Internet community.
		AfriNIC is a non-government, not-for-profit, membership based organisation, based in Mauritius to serve the African Internet community.
	www.domaininformer.com /news/press/050415ICANN.html (325 words)

	Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits
		AfriNIC, created to distribute and administer domain names on the African continent, is to begin operations later this year, reports the Highway Africa News Agency (HANA) from the International Telecommunications Union's Telecom Africa 2004 conference in Cairo.
		HANA says that the establishment of AfriNIC means that Africans will no longer have to pay Europe or the U.S. for the right to own a website address -- and this will positively impact the continent's foreign-exchange position.
		HANA reports that although AfriNIC will not be accountable to ICANN, the two organizations will need to work together closely for the benefit of the international Internet community.
	www.poynter.org /column.asp?id=31&aid=65369 (263 words)

	Africa: Internet Advances, 04/22/05
		The launch of AfriNic is one sign of the emerging maturity of internet operations in Africa, as advances at many levels move beyond conference talk about information technology to practical applications.
		Illustrations at one level include AfriNic (http://www.afrinic.net) and the plans of the African Association of Internet Service Providers (AfriSPA) to establish new data exchange points within the continent.
		AfriNic is the fifth RIR and is expected to handle all issues relating to Africa.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /afrfocus/afrfocus042205.html (2765 words)

	ICANN \| Announcement \| AfriNIC Moves Forward and Promotes Regional Integration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		“AfriNIC is building a regional registry to meet Africa’s regional needs.
		This historic event ensures that the Africa region is moving to participate on an equal footing with all other regions.”
		The existing Regional Internet Registries, APNIC, ARIN, RIPE NCC and LACNIC, have supported AfriNIC strongly, according to Paul Wilson, Chair of the Number Resource Organisation (the coalition of RIRs): “The RIRs and our communities are extremely pleased to hear of the provisional recognition of AfriNIC by ICANN.
	www.icann.org /announcements/announcement-14oct04.htm (463 words)

	Regional Internet Registries
		AfriNIC (African Network Information Center) is one of the five Regional Internet Registries in the world, responsible for providing vital resource allocation and registration services for the continent of Africa on behalf of the Internet community.
		AfriNIC's goals are to represent and promote the region's points of view and support Internet growth.
		Click here for a full list of countries in the AfriNIC region.
	www.arin.net /community/rirs.html (459 words)

	Address Council Teleconference 6 February 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		AfriNIC now has an interim secretariat and that this is currently adequate for a legal entity.
		MD stated that the AfriNIC MoU currently in progress with RIPE will be approved with RIPE and signed by the time the Accra meeting takes place.
		MD stated that information is on the website with regard to AfriNIC communications and the people responsible for managing the website, mailing lists, etc. He stated the next deadline is 2/20/02 to adopt the documents created by the small working group of AfriNIC.
	www.aso.icann.org /meetings/ac/ac-20020206.html (2553 words)

	globalinfo.org - May 7, EGYPT (#29695) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		AfriNIC is an African body aimed at administering the process of assigning Internet names and numbers to African web sites.
		Kamal recognizes the symbolic value of AfriNIC taking control of African cyberspace, but acknowledges the difficulties the organization will face in trying to coordinate the legacy systems in place in all the African countries.
		He explains that, although AfriNIC will not be accountable to ICANN, the two organizations will need to work together closely for the benefit of the international Internet community.
	www.globalinfo.org /eng/reader.asp?ArticleId=29695 (805 words)

	Cape Town Symposium Speakers
		Mouhamet Diop is a board member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the CEO of NEXT SA, an innovative consulting company in Senegal (West Africa).
		He is involved in the Afrinic process to set up a new emerging RIR and in the IDN committee.
		Heather Ford is the public lead for Creative Commons South Africa, a Wits University LINK Centre associate and the project manager of an intellectual property awareness raising project for the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), the Africa ICT Policy Monitor Project.
	www.thepublicvoice.org /events/capetown04/conf_speakers.html (2204 words)

	Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It is an indicator of how important telecom is to the economies of Africa that such interests have been created in the first place; and an indicator of how much creative energy might be unlocked when these corrupt and hegemonic structures are finally dismantled.
		A few moments ago, the ICANN Board approved a motion officially recognising AfriNIC as the 5th Regional Internet Registry at it 22nd international public meeting and the fourth to be held in Latin America.
		AfriNIC submitted to the ICANN Board an updated Application for Recognition, which includes summaries of their prior submissions, and details of their fulfilment of the ICP-2 Criteria for recognition as an RIR @
	afrispa.skybuilders.com /users/eric/blog.html (7019 words)

	AfriNIC now a regional Internet registry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		AfriNIC submitted its application for recognition as the official regional Internet number registry in August last year, and was granted provisional recognition by the ICANN board the following month.
		In his official statement on the approval, AfriNIC CEO Adiel Akpologan said: “This is very rewarding news for Africa and the Internet community at large.
		SA funds the operations centre in Pretoria, Mauritius hosts the AfriNIC headquarters in the newly built Cyber Tower, and Egypt funds the disaster recovery centre.
	www.itweb.co.za /sections/internet/2005/0504120612.asp?O=S&cirestriction=icann (542 words)

	AfNOG and AfriNIC Joint Announcement: Meetings in May 2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) and the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) are pleased to announce that the 7th AfNOG Meeting and the AfriNIC-4 Meeting will be held Nairobi, Kenya, in May 2006.
		AfNOG and AfriNIC are jointly organising a two-week event that includes the AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology (offering advanced training in a week-long hands-on workshop), several half-day Tutorials, a one-day AfNOG meeting, and a two-day AfriNIC meeting.
		AfriNIC (see ) is a Regional Internet Registry (RIR), responsible for the registration and allocation of Internet number resources in Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean.
	www.afnog.org /afnog2006 (726 words)

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