https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/ Technical writing, community news and registry updates from AFRINIC. enMon, 21 Sep 2026 17:26:31 +0000 https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/taking-my-seat-at-africas-internet-policy-table https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/taking-my-seat-at-africas-internet-policy-table Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:30:00 +0000Policy Development Rexa Mphuwa Rexa Mphuwa shares her journey from feeling like an outsider to actively contributing to Internet policy discussions at AFRINIC-37 in Nairobi, proving that every resource member has a seat at the table. https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/peeringdb-update-october-2025-april-2026 https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/peeringdb-update-october-2025-april-2026 Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:50:57 +0000Membership & Services Leo Vegoda PeeringDB’s update for October 2025 to April 2026 covers the completed Kubernetes migration, rate limiting against automated scrapers, improved ASN Comparison, location data normalization, and expanded API query export. https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/exploring-the-potential-of-rpki-signed-checklists-the-results-are-in https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/exploring-the-potential-of-rpki-signed-checklists-the-results-are-in Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:31:22 +0000Routing Security & RPKI Dr Amreesh Phokeer RPKI Signed Checklists (RSCs). Learn how RSCs allow network operators to securely sign and verify any digital object, enhancing trust and automation in the internet resource management ecosystem. https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/nro-rpki-program-2025-in-review https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/nro-rpki-program-2025-in-review Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:31:22 +0000Routing Security & RPKI Sofia Silva Berenguer Explore the 2025 year-in-review for the NRO RPKI Program. Learn about key milestones in routing security, including new Trust Anchor (TA) specifications, the roadmap for ASPA implementation by 2026, and consolidated… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/a-new-nro-resource-for-network-operators-working-across-multiple-rirs https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/a-new-nro-resource-for-network-operators-working-across-multiple-rirs Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:31:22 +0000Routing Security & RPKI Sofia Silva Berenguer The Number Resource Organization (NRO) has published a new reference page to help network operators and other members of the Internet technical community learn how to create Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs) through… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/strengthening-africas-dns-infrastructure-afrinic-expands-anycast-footprint-with-a-new-deployment-at-uixp-the-uganda-ixp https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/strengthening-africas-dns-infrastructure-afrinic-expands-anycast-footprint-with-a-new-deployment-at-uixp-the-uganda-ixp Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:23:17 +0000DNS & Infrastructure AFRINIC AFRINIC strengthens Africa's DNS infrastructure with a new Anycast DNS node deployment at the Uganda Internet Exchange Point (UIXP). Discover how this expansion reduces latency, improves internet resilience, and… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/rpki-best-practices-and-lessons-learned https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/rpki-best-practices-and-lessons-learned Mon, 27 Oct 2025 05:29:33 +0000Routing Security & RPKI Sofia Silva Berenguer This document describes Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) related best practices and lessons learned, providing general recommendations aimed at supporting the implementation and operation of RPKI. https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/september-2025-peeringdb-product-update https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/september-2025-peeringdb-product-update Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:59:23 +0000Membership & Services AFRINIC Welcome to our third half-yearly update. While we publish release notes with each update and promote new features and bug fixes on social media, these reports take a broader look at recent changes. You can find our… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/advancing-rpki-nro-rpki-program-in-2025-for-trust-transparency-and-user-experience https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/advancing-rpki-nro-rpki-program-in-2025-for-trust-transparency-and-user-experience Wed, 27 Aug 2025 07:01:27 +0000Routing Security & RPKI Sofia Silva Berenguer The NRO RPKI Program aims to provide a more consistent and uniformly secure, resilient and reliable RPKI service. For 2025, the RPKI Steering Group, which includes RPKI experts from the five RIRs, set out to work on two… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/icp-2-review https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/icp-2-review Wed, 28 May 2025 09:00:53 +0000Governance & Elections Hervé Clément The feedback period for the draft ‘Governance Document for the Recognition, Maintenance, and Derecognition of Regional Internet Registries’ (draft ‘ RIR Governance Document ’) has officially concluded. The consultation… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/peeringdb-to-require-mfa-and-api-keysv1-2 https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/peeringdb-to-require-mfa-and-api-keysv1-2 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:41:48 +0000Membership & Services AFRINIC You must have a second factor to login to PeeringDB from 1 July 2025. If you automate updates using our API , you'll need to use an API Key . But anonymous usage will not be going away. You can query the website or API… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/nro-rpki-program-2024-in-review https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/nro-rpki-program-2024-in-review Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:24:07 +0000Routing Security & RPKI AFRINIC Authored by: Sofia Silva Berenguer, RPKI Program Manager, NRO Earlier this year we launched the NRO RPKI Program and we shared information about the program’s purpose and the outcomes that were guiding our efforts. One… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/navigating-the-icp-2-review-process https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/navigating-the-icp-2-review-process Fri, 25 Oct 2024 05:00:49 +0000Governance & Elections AFRINIC Authored by: Sofia Silva Berenguer, RPKI Program Manager, NRO The ICP-2 created in 2001, identifies the criteria for an organisation seeking to become a new RIR. In October 2023, the Address Supporting Organization… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/evaluating-the-technical-environment-of-cctlds https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/evaluating-the-technical-environment-of-cctlds Mon, 21 Oct 2024 05:00:49 +0000DNS & Infrastructure Yasir Haq A country’s economic development does not necessarily correlate with the technical maturity of the DNS infrastructure supporting its country-code Top-Level Doma https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/ipv6-zero-to-certified https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/ipv6-zero-to-certified Thu, 05 Sep 2024 05:00:49 +0000IPv6 Deployment AFRINIC The Internet relies on a robust and future-proof addressing system – enter IPv6 - in its ever-expanding capacity. Understanding the critical need to equip individuals with this essential knowledge, AFRINIC recently concluded its highly successful Cohort 5 of the "Zero to Certified IPv6 in 21 Days" workshop. https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/are-differences-in-rir-rpki-implementations-hindering-rpki-adoption https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/are-differences-in-rir-rpki-implementations-hindering-rpki-adoption Tue, 27 Aug 2024 05:00:49 +0000Routing Security & RPKI Sofia Silva Berenguer Authored by: Sofia Silva Berenguer, RPKI Program Manager, NRO A few months ago we shared the outcomes that are guiding the work that we are doing as part of the NRO RPKI Program . We mentioned that we would like to know… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/what-can-internet-standards-do-about-centralization https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/what-can-internet-standards-do-about-centralization Tue, 18 Jun 2024 05:20:03 +0000Internet Development Mark Nottingham Authored by: Mark Nottingham, IETF WG Chair RFC 9518: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards has been published after more than two years of review, discussion, and revision. It covers what… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/working-towards-a-coordinated-rpki-system https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/working-towards-a-coordinated-rpki-system Thu, 30 May 2024 05:00:49 +0000Routing Security & RPKI Sofia Silva Berenguer Authored by: Sofia Silva Berenguer, RPKI Program Manager, NRO In our previous blog post , we introduced the new NRO RPKI Program and what we are aiming to achieve: “[…] the NRO RPKI Program aims to provide a more… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/cyber-threat-information-sharing-an-important-component-of-cyber-resilience https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/cyber-threat-information-sharing-an-important-component-of-cyber-resilience Mon, 27 May 2024 05:00:12 +0000Measurement & Research Dr. Kaleem Ahmed Usmani Authored by: Dr. Kaleem Ahmed Usmani Introduction With new and emerging technologies, cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated and are increasing. Information about cyber threats, also known as threat intelligence… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/rpki-moving-parts-exploring-components-and-processes https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/rpki-moving-parts-exploring-components-and-processes Thu, 02 May 2024 08:40:18 +0000Routing Security & RPKI Musa Stephen Honlue Introduction Welcome back to our journey into the realm of Internet routing security! In our previous article, " Securing Internet Routing with Cryptography: Quick Introduction to RPKI ," we delved into the foundational… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/cyber-insights-african-perspectives https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/cyber-insights-african-perspectives Wed, 10 Apr 2024 06:40:18 +0000Internet Development Emilia Cebrat-Maslowski Introduction Africa’s rapid growth in Internet communications is creating a wide range of opportunities but also a wide range of vulnerabilities. This rapid shift to online activities has created a goldmine for cyber… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/apricot-ipv6-only https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/apricot-ipv6-only Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:49:47 +0000IPv6 Deployment Brian Candler Authored by: Brian Candler, Systems Designer and Trainer, NSRC APRICOT is the Internet Network Operators Summit for the Asia Pacific region. Every year, a conference wireless network is built to provide connectivity for… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/rpki-quick-introduction https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/rpki-quick-introduction Fri, 22 Mar 2024 10:00:32 +0000Routing Security & RPKI Musa Stephen Honlue Authored by: Musa Stephen Honlue, Project Manager and Transformation Lead, AFRINIC LinkedIn | Twitter Demystifying RPKI: Securing Internet Routing with Cryptography In the intricate tapestry of the digital world, where… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/fighting-back-against-internet-shutdowns-in-zimbabwe https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/fighting-back-against-internet-shutdowns-in-zimbabwe Fri, 15 Mar 2024 06:34:03 +0000Internet Development Bright Chimedza This article discusses the rise of internet shutdowns, particularly in Zimbabwe, and their impact on human rights practitioners' ability to document violations. https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/improving-regional-internet-registry-alignment-in-the-rpki-space https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/improving-regional-internet-registry-alignment-in-the-rpki-space Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:58:49 +0000Routing Security & RPKI Sofia Silva Berenguer Authored by: Sofia Silva Berenguer, RPKI Program Manager, NRO As a result of the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Strategic Review Process, which started in 2022, the NRO agreed to work towards providing a robust… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/afrinic-key-achievements-in-2023 https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/afrinic-key-achievements-in-2023 Thu, 07 Mar 2024 07:33:50 +0000Corporate & Reports Ashil Oogarah AFRINIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa and the Indian Ocean and currently serves 56 economies across its service region . In 2023, AFRINIC achieved significant milestones in its activities despite… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/strengthening-the-dns-infrastructure-through-dnssec-validation https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/strengthening-the-dns-infrastructure-through-dnssec-validation Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:40:29 +0000DNS & Infrastructure Ashil Oogarah The Internet relies heavily on the Domain Name System (DNS) to translate human-readable domain names (example.com) into IP addresses (198.51.100.10, DB8:C001:ABCD:09C0:876A:130B:0000:130F), facilitating the seamless… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/kindns https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/kindns Mon, 02 Oct 2023 10:07:03 +0000DNS & Infrastructure Yazid Akhano The Domain Name System, well known under the acronym DNS, is a critical service used in every single communication that we people, systems, and applications do on the Internet. ICANN implemented a community-wide… https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/enhancing-reverse-dns-robustness-through-effective-implementation-of-the-lame-delegation-policy https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/enhancing-reverse-dns-robustness-through-effective-implementation-of-the-lame-delegation-policy Mon, 21 Aug 2023 11:15:23 +0000DNS & Infrastructure Madhvi Gokool we introduced a lame tool that enables any organisation holding resources within our service region to verify the adequacy of their nameserver configuration. Th https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/ip-address-and-asn-allocations-in-africa https://blog.afrinic.net/blog/posts/ip-address-and-asn-allocations-in-africa Thu, 10 Aug 2023 05:33:20 +0000Internet Number Resources Ashil Oogarah IP Address and ASN Allocations in Africa: Unveiling Key Insights In today's interconnected world, the Internet has become an integral part of our daily lives. From government services to education, healthcare to…