NiRA to Host AFRINIC-27 Policy Meeting, Seeks Stakeholders' Support

Nigeria is scheduled to host African Network Information Center (AFRINIC's) open public policy meetings, in the last quarter of the year.

AFRINIC is the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Africa; it hosts two open public policy meetings every year in various locations throughout its service region.

The AFRINIC meetings, Rev’d Sunday Folayan, president, Executive Board of the Nigerian Internet registration Association (NiRA), explained, provide unique opportunities for Internet-related individuals and organisations to gather and to discuss the policies governing Internet number resource distribution in the African region.

He added that the meetings serve as platforms to share technical knowledge, and to attend workshops and tutorials.

Rev' Folayan appealed to stakeholders in the Nigerian domain name system (DNS) industry to support NiRA to host the 2017 Public Policy Meeting, tagged AFRINIC-27 in Lagos from 27th November 2017 to 2nd December 2017.

"The first meeting of each year, he said "is held during the Africa Internet Summit (AIS). The annual AIS is a regional multi-stakeholder ICT conference which brings together Africa's ICT business and technical community to discuss regional and global ICT issues and challenges. The AIS is organised jointly by AFRINIC and AfNOG. An Annual General Meeting (AGM) is also held during the first AFRINIC Meeting of each year.

"The second meeting in each year is a stand-alone meeting, dubbed the Public Policy meeting. NIRA will be hosting this in Lagos. A typical AFRINIC meeting can have up to 400 attendees".

"My appeal is that all NIRA stakeholders should key into the program of activities for the Meeting. There are sponsorship opportunities, Workshops, Trainings and Tutorials on Internet Governance, Internet Number Resources Management, IPV6 etc, that will be of immense benefit to everyone".

He said that all interested in participating in the event should not hesitate to contact NiRA.