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Cybercity, Ebene, Mauritius

 

We would like to join the world in congratulating Alain Aina, one of AFRINIC’s founding staff members, for receiving the 2019 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. Alain was instrumental in the setup and success of AFRINIC. The Award was presented during the 106th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) held in Singapore on16-22 November 2019.

Alain was honoured for his leadership and pioneering work in Internet development in Africa and building technical communities that helped connect countless others across the continent and beyond. As the citation for the award indicates, Alain was part of the team at AFRINIC which helped build large parts of the Internet ecosystem in Africa as well as contributing to the creation of the network operator group, and ccTLD registries.

Even though he left AFRINIC 2015, Alain continues to be an engaged and active member of the organisation, the global and African Internet community. He currently works as the chief technology officer of the West and Central Africa Research and Education Network (WACREN).

The Postel Award was established by the Internet Society to honour individuals or organisations that, like Jon Postel, have made outstanding contributions to the data communications community. The award is focused on sustained and substantial technical contributions, service to the community, and leadership.

On behalf of the AFRINIC Board of Directors and staff, I would like to heartily congratulate Alain for this achievement.

 

Dr Christian D. Bope

Chairman, AFRINIC Board of Directors

 

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AFRINIC has started the annual billing exercise and issued the invoice for the 2020 annual membership fees to all its active Resource Members that have no outstanding balance in 2019 and past years fees.

The 2020 invoice has been uploaded on the Myafrinic portal and can be accessed by any registered billing contact and printed for reference and payment. The registered contacts of the Resource Members have also been sent an electronic copy of the invoice. Members who require a signed hard copy of the invoice are requested to either update their preference on MyAFRINIC or email billing@afrinic.net. For the first time, AFRINIC has also issued invoices in Euro to members who have indicated that to be their preferred currency.

AFRINIC accepts payment via bank transfer and credit card. The credit card facilities are available at https://my.afrinic.net and only the invoice number is required.

Registered billing contacts can also pay via the portal https://my.afrinic.net/billing/paybill/

Resource Members with an outstanding balance for the past year(s) are kindly reminded to settle these dues as soon as possible to avoid reclamation of resources in the upcoming closure exercise. Once outstanding balances are settled, the 2020 membership fees invoice will be issued.

We look forward to members settling their invoices on time to avoid any penalties.

For reference, the billing timeline can be accessed here.

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