: 21 October 2015; Hits: 6960

Countdown to AFRINIC-23: Speaker Slots Still Available

15887207241 0687bf7056 m The AFRINIC-23 Meeting is just a few weeks away. The Programme Committee and AFRINIC staff are hard at work preparing for our week-long conference that will take place in Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo, from 28 November - 4 December 2015. We opened our call for presentations on 25 September, with a deadline of 24 October 2015. So you have a few more days to submit your proposal. We're seeking speakers from all regions to deliver presentations on the following topics in either French or English:

: Ashil Oogarah; 20 October 2015; Hits: 8101

AFRINIC's Loganaden Velvindron Contributes to Open Source Software

16298323096 303499281b m The following ISC press release highlights AFRINIC’s Research & Development Support Engineer Loganaden (Logan) Velvindron’s work on open source software.

BIND 9.10.1 Includes Capability for SECCOMP

"Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) recently released BIND 9.10.1, which includes the ability to use the SECCOMP feature for kernel sandboxing if their OS kernel supports it. This allows system administrators to run BIND in an isolated compartment, or "sandbox". Sandboxing an application ensures that if it should be somehow compromised, it cannot access other parts of the computer to compromise them..."

Read the full press release here.

: Amreesh Phokeer; 14 October 2015; Hits: 39851

Article on Spam from an INRM Perspective

By: Amreesh Phokeer
Contributors: Alain Aina and Loganaden Velvindron

During the AIS'15 Meeting in Tunis, AFRINIC was invited to speak on anti-spam measures from AFRINIC's perspective. With the objective of sensitising the AFRINIC community on spam, Amreesh Phokeer from AFRINIC's Research and Innovation team wrote this article which also critically analyses existing anti-spam mechanisms and their utilisation.

Abstract

The concept of 'spam' on the Internet is known to virtually every Internet user. The fight against spam is a worldwide issue. Spam has a broad negative effect on the Internet causing technical and operational problems to network operators and users. It is a nuisance and is also regularly used in criminal activities such as phishing and other fraud.

While the issue of spam is multidimensional and needs be tackled at different levels, AFRINIC plays an important role as a provider of information on Internet number resources. AFRINIC itself is not mandated to fight spam but it maintains a registry that is of paramount importance for traceability of Internet Number Resources ownership information.

This paper specifically deals with the different policies and technical frameworks at AFRINIC, that are basically part of the RIR toolkit for Internet Number Resources Management, but which are important in the fight against spam.

The statistics however shows that those mechanisms, whether policy-related or technical, are mostly under-utilised.

: 06 October 2015; Hits: 8544

Welcome to AFRINIC's New Blog

alan barrett Welcome to AFRINIC's new blog! We'll use this platform to share interesting articles, news, research and statistics that are relevant to the community as well as to facilitate community discussion on Internet related topics in Africa and beyond. Please take a moment to read our comment policy and our contribution guidelines.

For our blog's inaugural post, I would like to take the opportunity to give a short round up of what has been happening at AFRINIC since I took up the post as CEO back in April.

Firstly, I would like to thank the AFRINIC Board, staff and the community for the warm welcome and support I received when joining the team earlier this year. It's been a busy few months with getting to know my team, AFRINIC-22 and the Africa Internet Summit (AIS), AFRINIC becoming the only RIR with an unrestricted supply of IPv4, and the IANA Stewardship Transition process reaching a critical turning point.

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