Registration Opens For The First AFRINIC IPv6 & RPKI Deployathon Of 2023 In Johannesburg
By Celestine Okorie, Bureau Chief, Southern Africa
AFRINIC in collaboration with Workonline and Teraco is organising a Deployathon in Johannesburg from 6 to 8 June 2023.
AFRINIC has less than 1,32 million IPv4 addresses left in its available pool. As the stats from the AFRINIC stats portal – https://stats.afrinic.net/, reveals, this is insufficient to meet Africa’s current IP address needs, making IPv6 the only sustainable way to continue growing the Internet in Africa.
In 2018, AFRINIC designed and organised the world’s first Deployathon as a mechanism to bridge the gap between learning about IPv6 and actually implementing it.
Since inception, AFRINIC has run 17 (e-)Deployathons supporting 83 organisations from 22 countries participating. They were able to accomplish 204 deployment milestones; among them:
- 43 valid route6 object
- 39 address plans in IPAMS
- 23 validated RPKI ROA objects
- 20 Initial address plan
- 19 advertised IPv6 prefix
- 14 IPv6 prefix PI
- 11 IPv6-enabled core
- 7 IPv6 domain objects
- 7 IPv6 from test VLAN
- 4 IPv6-enabled DNS
- 2 IPv6-enabled customer
Interested persons are encouraged to register for the upcoming Deployathon in Johannesburg.
If selected, they will get the same step-by-step guidance, tools, and techniques that AFRINIC has perfected in 17 (e-)Deployathons, and +100 helpdesk calls to help realise their IPv6 deployment project for their organisations.
“This is clearly a measurable step forward in accordance with your network change management processes,” stated the AFRINIC Deployment Ops Team.
Date: 6 June – 8 June 2023
Time: 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM local time day (UTC +2)
Main Language: English
Eligibility: Qualified engineers based in South Africa or able to travel to Johannesburg in that period.
“If you are an engineer who runs a network and believes that you can make one concrete visible step towards IPv6 deployment (or advance your stalled IPv6 deployment) for your organisation, apply for a spot here – https://afrinic.net/deployathon (Only 30 spots available),” the team.
Deadline for application: May 29, 2023.
For more information and queries about Deployathons, please contact: do@afrinic.net
