Management of Top Level Domains: Contribution of the International College of AFNIC

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Management of Top Level Domains Contribution of
the International College of AFNIC
Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en
Coopération
barry_at_ucad.sn Jean-Yves.Babonneau_at_afnic.fr http/
/www.afnic.fr
Boubakar Barry (NIC Sénégal) Jean-Yves Babonneau
(AFNIC)
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• AFNIC was created on the 1st of January, 1998 as
  a non-for-profit association
• AFNIC took over the activities of NIC France, a
  department of the National Institute for Research
  in Computer Science (INRIA)

Activities Assignments

• Definition and implementation of the naming
  policy in compliance with the french laws
• Operational management of the DNS service
• Knowledge transfer, training, coordination,
  information
• RD IPv6, Enum, DNSsec

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Members of the Association 4 categories
including public and private sectors

• Founding members
• Government represented by 3 Ministries
  Telecommunications, Industry and Research
• National Institute for Research in Computer
  Science (INRIA)
• Internet Service Providers about 1000 ISPs
  including foreign companies
• Internet Users french legal entities and
  individuals
• International College international
  organizations
• - Any legal entity or physical person can become
  a member of AFNIC -

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ORGANISATION
Board of Directors (10)
5 Elected
5 Appointed
Management
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STAFF Provide technical support
Input Feedback

• Project,Groups
• ENUM
• GTI
• Gouvernance

Consultation Committee
Consultation Committee
G.A.
INRIA Founding member

• Ministries
• Industry
• Research
• Telecom

• Registrars
• 961 level 2
• 96 level 1

• Users
• 56 organisations
• 28 individuals

• International
• 14 registries
• others

Internet Community
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AFNIC International College

• 28 members including 14 NICs
• Albania, Algérie, Cameroun, Gabon, Guinée, Haiti,
  Côte dIvoire, Madagascar, Mauritanie, Maroc,
  Niger, Sénégal, Tchad, Tunisie
• 1 elected representative and member of the Board
  of Directors
• Boubakar BARRY, Director of the NIC Senegal
• Partnerships and financial support
• UNESCO, French Foreign Office, ADETEF, ...

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International College actions - 1

• Trainers training/FFTI ten training sessions
  since its creation
• Two levels
• FFTI1 for general network management knowledge
• FFTI2 for advanced notions IPv6, DNSsec, PKI
  etc.
• This year
• 2 regional training sessions Mexico, Guinea
• 1 national training session Madagascar
• Generic NIC technological transfer training
  to get global technical knowledge of NIC
  management ( http//www.generic-nic.net )
• Interactive tools CD-ROM, and online training
• Involvement in the WSIS (World Summit on the
  Information Society)

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International College actions - 2

• Support for ccTLD management and for
  administrative ccTLD re-delegation procedures
• technical support
• awareness rising of local authorities
• creation of a local internet community
  cooperation
• Exemples
• Haïti support for creating an Exchange point
• Afghanistan support for launching of NIC .af
• Albania technical support for the set up of NIC
  Albania
• Nigeria advisory role for .ng re-delegation
• Côte dIvoire support for the transfer of the
  primary DNS server to Abidjan
• Guinea support for the .gn re-delegation early
  stage of the process

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Conclusion

• International College is an entity for initiating
  and coordination of concrete regional actions.
• Plan for Partnership with UIT-D for diffusion of
  online training tools, generic NIC, ...
• Creation of a real co-development with national
  and international institutions in northern and
  southern countries.
• Invitation to join.