AfNOG and AfriNIC Joint Announcement: Meetings in May 2006
7th AfNOG Meeting
AfriNIC-4 Meeting
The African Network Operators' Group (AfNOG) and the African Network
Information Centre (AfriNIC) are pleased to announce that the 7th AfNOG
Meeting and the AfriNIC-4 Meeting will be held Nairobi, Kenya, in May
2006.
About the entire event
AfNOG and AfriNIC are jointly organising a two-week event
that includes the AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology
(offering advanced training in a week-long hands-on workshop),
several half-day Tutorials, a one-day AfNOG meeting, and
a two-day AfriNIC meeting. Further information about the
event may be found at http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/ and
http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/.
Timetable
AfNOG Workshop 7 - 12 May 2006 (Sunday - Friday)
AfNOG Tutorials 14 May 2006 (Sunday)
AfNOG Meeting 15 May 2006 (Monday)
AfriNIC Meeting 16 - 17 May 2006 (Tuesday - Wednesday)
Venue
The event will be held in Nairobi, Kenya. The exact venue
has not yet been finalised. Updated information will be
made available at http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/ and
http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/.
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 organised
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 the registration and allocation of
Internet number resources in Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean.
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 2005 in six 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:
Track E0 - Unix System Administration (in English), focused on
using a Unix-like operating system as a platform for
delivery of Internet services.
Track E1 - 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.
Track E2 - 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.
Track F2 - Infrastructure Réseaux IP (en français),
similar to track E2, but given in French.
Further information and application forms are available at
http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/workshop/.
AfNOG Tutorials
On 14 May 2006, the day before the AfNOG conference, several
tutorials will be offered. Tutorials are typically half a day in
duration (4 hours including a break).
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 highlight issues relating to technology already
deployed or soon to be deployed on networking and related services
provisioning for ISP operations.
People interested in presenting a tutorial are invited
to submit a proposal, following the instructions at
http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/tutorial/.
7th AfNOG Meeting
The 7th AfNOG meeting will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on
15 May 2006. 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.
Previous AfNOG conferences have attracted over 200 participants,
mainly consisting of engineering staff from network service
providers, managers from IT enterprises, and members of the research
and education community.
People interested in making a presentation or chairing
a panel discussion at the AfNOG meeting are invited to
to submit a proposal, following the instructions at
http://www.afnog.org/afnog2006/conference/.
AfriNIC-4 Meeting
The AfriNIC-4 meeting will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, on 16 and 17
May 2006. This meeting will be both a public policy meeting and
an annual members meeting. The public policy part of the meeting
will include discussion of proposed policies for how AfriNIC should
manage resources such as IP addresses and AS numbers. The annual
members meeting will include voting for Board members, and reporting
on AfriNIC's activities.
Further information is available at http://www.afrinic.net/meeting/.
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