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AfNOG-11 and AfriNIC-12: Meetings 23 May-4 June, 2010
The African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) and the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) are pleased to announce that the 11th AfNOG Meeting and the AfriNIC-12 Meeting would be held in Kigali, Rwanda during May & June 2010.
About the Entire Event
AfNOG and AfriNIC are jointly organizing a two-week event that includes the AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology (offering advanced training in a week-long hands-on workshop), several full-day Advanced Tutorials, a one-day AfNOG Meeting, and a two-day AfriNIC Meeting.
In addition, several side meetings and workshops will be hosted in collaboration with other organizations.
Timetable
| Unix Boot Camp |
23 May 2010 (Sunday) |
| AfNOG Workshop |
24 - 28 May 2010 (Monday - Friday)
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| AfriNIC IPv6 Workshop |
29 - 30 May 2010 (Saturday - Sunday) |
| AfREN Meeting / AAF |
29 - 30 May 2010 (Saturday - Sunday) |
| AfNOG Tutorials |
30 - 31 May 2010(Sunday - Monday) |
| AfriNIC LIR Workshop |
31 May 2010 (Monday) |
| AfNOG-11 Meeting |
1 June 2010 (Tuesday) |
| AfriNIC-12 Meeting |
2- 3 June 2010 (Wednesday - Thursday) |
| Africa INET Day |
4 June 2010 (Friday) |
Venue
Venue for the event will be announced shortly.
Hotel & Conferences
Hotel will be announced shortly.
About AfNOG
AfNOG (See <http://www.afnog.org/>) is a forum for cooperation and the exchange of technical information between
operators of Internet-connected networks in Africa. AfNOG
has organized an event like this one every year since 2000.
About AfriNIC
AfriNIC (See <http://www.afrinic.net/>) is a Regional Internet
Registry (RIR), responsible for Internet Number resources Mangement
in the Africa region. AfriNIC organizes two Public Policy meetings every
year (see <
http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/>).
AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology
The AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology aims to
offer advanced training to people who are in the process of
developing and enhancing an Internet-connected network with
regional and international connectivity. The target
audience includes senior and mid-level technical staff of commercial Internet
service providers (ISPs), academic networks, government networks, or
NGO networks.
This workshop builds on the experience of previous
AfNOG workshops held annually from 2000 to 2009 in ten different
African countries, and also the Internet Society's INET workshops, held
annually from 1993 to 2000 at eight locations around the
world. The workshop's instructors are an international team with many
years of experience operating large networks and teaching about network
operations.
The workshop is divided into four parallel tracks:
- SA-E - Unix System Administration (in English), focused on
using a Unix-like operating system as a platform for delivery
of Internet services.
- SS-E - Scalable Internet Services (in English), focused
on the design and operation of email, web, and other
Internet services, in ways that can scale to handle
large numbers of end users.
- SI-E - Scalable Network Infrastructure (in English), focused
on the design and operation of networks using routers
and switches, in ways that can scale to handle large
numbers of interconnected sites.
- SI-F - Infrastructure Reseaux IP (en francais),
similar to track SI-E, but given in French.
Workshop application information is available here:
<http://www.afnog.org/application.html>.
AfREN Meeting
The Africa Research and Education Networking community will be holding a two-day meeting on 29 - 30 May 2010. The meeting will discuss issues of interest to the NREN community such as coordination on activites in the region, advocacy, bandwidth consortia, regional RENs etc.
Additional information about AfREN 2010 will be provided shortly.
AfNOG Tutorials
AfNOG will offer 1 to 2
full-day(s) tutorials on advanced topics.
Tutorials take place in a classroom-style
environment, and may include a hands-on practical component.
Tutorials are non-commercial in nature, and most are technically
oriented. They are intended to offer advanced training on
technology already deployed or soon to be deployed on networking and
related services provisioning for ISP operations.
Additional information about AfNOG 2010 Tutorials will be availabe here:
<http://www.afnog.org/afnog2010/tutorial/>
11th AfNOG Meeting
The 11th AfNOG meeting will be held in Kigali, Rwanda on 01 June 2010. AfNOG conferences provide a forum for the coordination and dissemination of technical information related to backbone/enterprise networking technologies and operational practices. The meetings are informal, with an emphasis on relevance to current and future African backbone engineering practices. The AfNOG 2009 conference in Cairo, Egypt drew over 150 participants, mainly consisting of network engineering staff from national service providers, and members of the research and education community.
Additional information and the Conference schedule will be available here: <http://www.afnog.org/afnog2010/conference/>
AfriNIC-12 Meeting
The AfriNIC-12 meeting will be held in Kigali, Rwanda for two days from 02-03 June, 2010. AfriNIC Meetings are open to everyone and provide an excellent opportunity to take part in Internet policy discussions. These policies, which describe how Internet Number Resources should be managed and distributed, are developed by the community. The meeting will include tutorials, presentations, update on the various working groups and the AfriNIC Public Policy Meeting. The two day meeting will be preceeded by a two-day IPv6 training. The meeting will focus on the IPv6 protocol and its deployment, especially in Africa and the issue of the exhaustion of the IPv4 pool of address space. There will be an opportunity to discuss the challenges which our region will be facing with IPv4 address space exhaustion.
Further information will be available at
<http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/>.
ISOC - INET Africa Conference
The Internet Society will be organizing an INET Africa Conference on 4th June 2010 in conjunction with the AfriNIC 12
and AfNOG 11 meetings in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference will discuss the situation of Internet Interconnection in Africa,
the challenges as well as the solutions, including Internet Exchange Points.
The meeting agenda will be available shortly.
Visa Requirements
Citizens of certain countries require a visa to enter Rwanda. Please check with the Rwandan Embassy in your country.
Health
Information will be provided shortly.
Airport
Information to be provided shortly.
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