<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AFRINIC is pleased to invite you to register for our IPv6 and RPKI e-Deployathon.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Date: 17 to 20 November 2020</div><div class="">Time: 9:00 - 13:00 UTC</div><div class="">Location: Zoom </div><div class="">Eligibility: Qualified engineers from any country in Africa</div><div class="">Deadline for application : 5 November 2020</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Registration link: <a href="https://vox.afrinic.net/568981?lang=en" class="">https://vox.afrinic.net/568981?lang=en</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Why Participate?</div></div><div class=""> </div><div class="">AFRINIC is the only RIR with IPv4 addresses in its free pool --- 1,950,720 million to be specific. This is of course grossly inadequate to meet Africa’s current IP address needs, making IPv6 the only sustainable way to continue to grow the potential of the Internet in Africa.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That’s why after having trained over 6000 engineers from 50 countries, in 2018, we designed and organised the world’s first deployathon as a mechanism to shorten the time between learning about IPv6 and actually implementing it. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In 2019, we’ve run five deployathons in which 55 network operators have participated and within 3-4 days, were able to accomplish the following:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 28 address plans in IPAMS</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 23 validated route6 object</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 10 validated RPKI ROA objects</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 10 advertised IPv6 prefixes</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 10 complete IPv6 infrastructure audits</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 8 IPv6-enabled core networks</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 6 IPv6 domain objects</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 5 networks with IPv6 user traffic</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 4 IPv6-enabled enabled network</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In September 2020, 14 organisations from nine countries participated in the first e-Deployathon. They were able to accomplish the following:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 3 address plans in IPAMS</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 3 validated route6 object</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 2 IPv6 traffic from test VLAN</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 2 validated RPKI ROA objects</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 1 advertised IPv6 prefixes</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 1 IPv6-enabled DNS</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 1 IPv6-enabled website</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 1 IPv6-enabled email</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">• 1 IPv6-enabled customer</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If selected, you will get the same step by step guidance, tools and techniques we’ve perfected in six (e-)Deployathons and 85 helpdesk calls to help you move your IPv6 deployment one clearly measurable step forward in full accordance with your network change management processes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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), apply for a spot (only 35 spots available) latest 5 November 2020. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">For more information and queries about e-Deployathons, please contact: <a href="mailto:do@afrinic.net" class="">do@afrinic.net</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On behalf of AFRINIC’s Capacity Building Team</div></body></html>