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AFRINIC-38 Public Policy Meeting: Registration Now Open
by AFRINIC Communication 16 Oct '26

16 Oct '26

[Version en français au bas] Dear Colleagues, Registration is now open for the AFRINIC-38 Public Policy Meeting (PPM), scheduled for Wednesday, 18 November 2026, in Cape Town, South Africa, and hosted by the Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA). AFRINIC-38 will be held in a hybrid format, allowing participants to attend in person in Cape Town or join discussions remotely. The PPM provides an open forum for the AFRINIC community to discuss, review and contribute to Internet number resource policies that shape the management of these resources across Africa. We encourage AFRINIC members, network operators, policymakers and the wider Internet community to participate and contribute to the Policy Development Process (PDP). Registration Participation is open to all interested stakeholders. Whether you plan to attend in person or online, we encourage you to register early. Register here: https://forms.afrinic.net/afrinic-38 AFRINIC-38 Program The AFRINIC-38 Program will feature discussions on Internet number resource policies and key issues affecting the AFRINIC service region. Review the agenda ahead of the meeting and prepare to contribute to the discussions. View the Meeting Program here: https://af38.afrinic.net/agenda Travel and Accommodation Participants planning to attend in person are encouraged to make their travel arrangements early. Information on the meeting venue, visa requirements and other travel-related details is available on the meeting website. Travel Information: https://af38.afrinic.net/travel Sponsorship Opportunities Sponsorship provides an opportunity to demonstrate your commitment to the development of Africa's Internet infrastructure while engaging with the regional Internet community. Organisations interested in supporting AFRINIC-38 are invited to explore the available sponsorship opportunities. Explore the AFRINIC-38 Sponsorship Opportunities: https://af38.afrinic.net/sponsorship For more information on AFRINIC-38, including the meeting agenda, venue, travel arrangements, sponsorship opportunities and participation details, please visit the official meeting website: https://af38.afrinic.net/ We look forward to welcoming you to AFRINIC-38, whether in person in Cape Town or online, and to your active participation in the policy discussions. Kind Regards, AFRINIC-38 Secretariat ………………………………………………………………………. Chers membres de la communauté, Les inscriptions sont désormais ouvertes pour la Réunion de politique publique AFRINIC-38 (PPM), prévue le mercredi 18 novembre 2026 à Cape Town, en Afrique du Sud, et accueillie par l'Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA). AFRINIC-38 se tiendra en format hybride. Les participants pourront y assister en personne à Cape Town ou prendre part aux discussions à distance. La PPM offre à la communauté d'AFRINIC un forum ouvert pour débattre, examiner et contribuer aux politiques relatives aux ressources numériques Internet qui encadrent la gestion de ces ressources en Afrique. Nous invitons les membres d'AFRINIC, les opérateurs de réseaux, les décideurs politiques et l'ensemble de la communauté Internet à participer et à contribuer au Processus d'élaboration des politiques (PDP). Inscription La participation est ouverte à toutes les parties prenantes intéressées. Que vous prévoyiez d'y assister en personne ou en ligne, nous vous encourageons à vous inscrire dès maintenant. Inscrivez-vous ici : https://forms.afrinic.net/afrinic-38 Programme d'AFRINIC-38 Le programme de la réunion AFRINIC-38 comprendra des discussions sur les politiques relatives aux ressources numériques d’Internet et sur les principaux enjeux de la région de service d'AFRINIC. Nous vous invitons à consulter le programme de la réunion avant celle-ci afin de vous préparer à participer aux échanges. Consultez le programme de la réunion ici : https://af38.afrinic.net/agenda Voyage et hébergement Les participants qui prévoient d'assister à la réunion en personne sont invités à organiser leur voyage dès que possible. Les informations sur le lieu de la réunion, les formalités de visa et les autres aspects pratiques du voyage sont disponibles sur le site de la réunion. Informations pratiques : https://af38.afrinic.net/travel Possibilités de parrainage Le parrainage permet de témoigner de votre engagement en faveur du développement de l'infrastructure Internet en Afrique tout en échangeant avec la communauté Internet régionale. Les organisations souhaitant soutenir AFRINIC-38 sont invitées à découvrir les possibilités de parrainage disponibles. Découvrez les possibilités de parrainage d'AFRINIC-38 : https://af38.afrinic.net/sponsorship Pour plus d'informations sur AFRINIC-38, notamment le programme de la réunion, le lieu, les modalités de voyage, les possibilités de parrainage et les modalités de participation, veuillez consulter le site officiel de la réunion : https://af38.afrinic.net/ Nous nous réjouissons de vous accueillir à AFRINIC-38, que ce soit en personne à Cape Town ou en ligne, et comptons sur votre participation active aux discussions politiques. Cordialement, Le Secrétariat d'AFRINIC-38

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Spam
by edd＠nog.net.za 15 Oct '26

15 Oct '26

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Flywheel Energy Storage Systems: A Complementary Force in the Flexible Battery Ecosystem
by wanrup07＠gmail.com 15 Oct '26

15 Oct '26

Recent findings suggest that Market Research Flywheel Energy Storage Systems as a complementary technology to flexible batteries, particularly in grid-scale and industrial applications where different forms of energy storage serve different purposes. While flexible batteries excel at compact, portable, and distributed energy storage, flywheel systems provide high-power, rapid-response inertia and short-duration storage. Understanding how these technologies interact helps clarify where each fits in a modern energy architecture. What Flywheel Energy Storage Systems Do Flywheels store energy kinetically in a spinning rotor. When demand rises, the rotor's momentum is converted back into electricity. Flywheel synchronous condensers add another capability: they provide inertia and reactive power support to stabilize grid frequency and voltage. Key Characteristics Very fast response. Flywheels can discharge in milliseconds. High cycle life. Unlike chemical batteries, flywheels degrade very slowly with cycling. No chemical hazards. No thermal runaway risk. Lower energy density. Flywheels store less total energy than batteries of similar size. Primary Applications Grid frequency regulation. Flywheels absorb and inject power to smooth frequency deviations. Voltage support. Synchronous condensers provide reactive power. Industrial power quality. Flywheels protect sensitive equipment from brief outages. Renewable integration. Flywheels smooth the output of wind and solar farms. Where Flexible Batteries Fit Flexible batteries serve a different set of needs. Portable and Wearable Applications Their thin, bendable form factor suits devices where rigid batteries cannot go. Distributed Storage Flexible batteries can be deployed in small, distributed nodes for local storage. Backup Power They provide reliable backup in compact packages. Energy Harvesting Integration Flexible batteries pair naturally with small-scale solar, vibration, and thermal harvesters. Complementary, Not Competing The two technologies occupy different niches. Power vs. Energy Flywheels provide high power for short durations. Batteries provide lower power for longer durations. Scale Flywheels are typically large, fixed installations. Flexible batteries are small and mobile. Response Time Flywheels respond faster. Batteries respond quickly but not instantaneously. Lifespan Flywheels last longer in high-cycle applications. Batteries degrade with cycling. Hybrid Systems Combining flywheels and batteries creates systems that leverage the strengths of both. Grid Stabilization A hybrid system can use flywheels for fast frequency response and batteries for longer-duration shifting. Industrial Facilities Flywheels handle power quality events while batteries provide backup during extended outages. Renewable Farms Flywheels smooth short-term fluctuations; batteries store excess energy for later dispatch. Microgrids Hybrid storage improves reliability and reduces diesel consumption. Read More: https://www.marketresearchfuture.com/reports/flexible-battery-market-25046

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hi
by wanrup07＠gmail.com 15 Oct '26

15 Oct '26

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ZANOG-GP 22 October 2026
by ZANOG Events 14 Oct '26

14 Oct '26

Hi all, A quick reminder that the next ZANOG-GP Event is happening next week Thursday evening. Come for the talks and stay to catch up with the rest of the Gauteng network operator community. 📅 Thursday, 22 October 2026 🕕 18:00 📍 Workshop17 Sandton 🎟️ Free 🎤 On the agenda 🌊 The Disconnected South: what happens if we're isolated from a subsea perspective. We'll look at how exposed Southern Africa is to subsea cable outages, what really happens to traffic, peering and services when we lose international capacity. 🍻 Networking, drinks and snacks afterwards ✅ Please register so we can plan catering and venue access: 🔗 https://events.nog.net.za/event.php?slug=zanog-gp-84 💡 Want to give a lightning talk? Reply to this email and let us know. See you there! -- Sent by ZANOG Events: https://events.nog.net.za

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Call for Presentations: ZAPF10, 19 November 2026, Cape Town
by Shawn Jooste 06 Oct '26

06 Oct '26

Hi all, The call for presentations for the 10th South African Peering Forum (ZAPF10) is now open. ZAPF10 takes place on **Thursday, 19 November 2026** at the **Radisson Collection Hotel, Waterfront, Cape Town**. It's a free, one-day technical forum for peering coordinators, network engineers and architects, and anyone who peers or wants to peer at an Internet Exchange, in South Africa and across Africa. We're looking for talks on anything peering and interconnection related, for example: - IXP operations, growth and new exchange points - Peering strategy and policy, including bilateral vs route-server peering and commercial vs open peering - Routing security: RPKI, route-leak prevention, filtering and MANRS - Traffic engineering, capacity planning and how traffic patterns are changing - Interconnection in Africa: new facilities, cross-border links and remote peering - Operational war stories, outages and lessons learned - Tools, automation and measurement Talks must be technical and non-commercial; product or sales pitches won't be accepted. Standard slots are 20 to 30 minutes, including questions. **How to submit:** visit [zapf.africa](https://www.zapf.africa/) and follow the link to submit a presentation. Please include a title, a short abstract, and your slides or a draft outline if you have one. You can also say whether you're happy for your talk to be recorded and your slides published. **Submissions close on Friday, 23 October 2026.** The programme committee will review proposals as they come in, so the earlier you submit, the better. If you haven't registered yet, you can also do that at [zapf.africa](https://www.zapf.africa/). **Registration closes on Wednesday, 11 November 2026 at 08:00.** Space is limited, so we're asking for no more than two attendees per organisation. Any questions, just reply to this email. Looking forward to seeing you in Cape Town. Shawn Jooste Chair, ZAPF Programme Committee

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Fwd: APRICOT 2027: Call for Volunteers (Programme Committee)
by Mark Tinka 06 Oct '26

06 Oct '26

FYI. Mark. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: APRICOT 2027: Call for Volunteers (Programme Committee) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2026 12:55:54 +1100 From: Mark via NANOG <nanog(a)lists.nanog.org> Reply-To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog(a)lists.nanog.org> To: nanog(a)lists.nanog.org CC: Mark <mark(a)duffell.net> The APRICOT 2027 Organising team would like to welcome everyone to join us in Hong Kong from 24th February to 4th March 2027. The APRICOT 2027 Programme Committee is responsible for the solicitation and selection of suitable presentations and tutorial content for the APRICOT 2027 conference (https://2027.apricot.net/) We are now seeking VOLUNTEERS from the community to join the APRICOT 2027 PC to assist with the development of the programme for APRICOT 2027. Eligible PC candidates must have attended recent APRICOT events, be active members of their local NOG in the Asia Pacific region, have broad technical knowledge of Internet operations, and have good familiarity with the format of APRICOT. Having constructive opinions and ideas about how the programme content might be improved is of high value too. PC members are required to work very actively to solicit content, work with speakers for PC recommended content updates, and review submissions for technical merit. The PC meets by conference call, weekly in frequency during the three months prior to APRICOT. While participation in the weekly calls is not obligatory, active participation in content reviews is required at all times to help the PC reach consensus. PC members who are unable to fully participate in the programme development will be excused from the PC. If you are interested in joining the PC and meet the above eligibility criteria, please send a brief note to "pc-chairs at apricot.net". The note must include affiliation (if any) and a brief description about why you would make a good addition to the PC. The PC Chairs will accept nominations received by 17:00 UTC+8 on Sunday 18th October 2026, and will announce the new PC shortly thereafter. Many thanks! Achie Atienza, Mark Duffell & Mark Tinka APRICOT 2027 Programme Committee Chairs _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/EOP3IFB…

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fellowship for the upcoming ipv6 and rpki deployathon in JNB.
by Nishal Goburdhan 05 Oct '26

05 Oct '26

folks, if you’re interested in attending the upcoming IPv6/RPKI deployathon, and need financial assistance, INX-ZA is offering a fellowship for participants. more information here: https://lnkd.in/p/dVGXSd5G please remember that afrinic chooses candidates; we’re not responsible for that. all we’re doing is offering limited financial support. —n.

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Reminder : ZANOG-KZN : 1 October 2026 @ 18h00
by donald＠nog.net.za 30 Sep '26

30 Sep '26

Hi All Reminder if you have not yet registered for the last in-person event in KZN for the year. Event: ZANOG-KZN When : Thursday, 1 Oct 2026 18:00 – 22:00 Where: Westville Country Club, Durban, South Africa Cost : Free RSVP : https://events.nog.net.za/event.php?slug=zanog-kzn-oct-26 Talk1 : Beyond Monitoring : Sphamandla Dlamini Talk2 : Disconnected South What happens if ZA looses subsea capacity : Edd de Lange Looking forward to seeing you there!

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PCH 2026 global peering survey
by Bill Woodcock 29 Sep '26

29 Sep '26

tl;dr: the survey is at https://pch.net/survey Background: Every five years, beginning in 2011, PCH has conducted a comprehensive global survey characterizing Internet peering agreements. They are the only ones of their kind, and are relied upon not only by network operators, but also by legislators and regulators throughout the world to understand the Internet interconnection landscape. Our write-ups of the prior surveys can be found here: https://www.pch.net/resources/Papers/peering-survey/PCH-Peering-Survey-2011… https://www.pch.net/resources/Papers/peering-survey/PCH-Peering-Survey-2016… https://www.pch.net/resources/Papers/peering-survey/PCH-Peering-Survey-2021… …and video of the NANOG presentation of the 2016 results is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPuoBmxyXMc At the time of the 2011 survey, we committed to repeating the survey every five years, to provide time-series data about the direction peering trends take. We’re now conducting the fourth iteration of the survey. Among other things, the surveys have helped establish a better understanding of trends in: • The increasingly uniform global norms of interconnection • National preferences within the network operator community for country of governing law • The long tail of small networks which don’t yet support IPv6 routing • The significance of multilateral peering agreements in the density of the interconnection mesh These findings, particularly the first, have been invaluable in giving regulators in the vast majority of the world’s countries a data-driven basis for refraining from prescriptively regulating Internet interconnection. They have demonstrated in objective terms that the Internet self-regulates in a way that’s more globally uniform and closely harmonized than any coordination of national regulatory bodies could accomplish. Participation: The survey is global in scope, and our goal is to reflect the diversity of peering agreements in the world. Your participation ensures that your norms and ways of doing business are represented accurately and proportionately in the dataset. If you don’t participate, the way you do business will be less well-represented in the data, and will seem less normal to regulators and policy-makers. We’re interested in large ISPs and small ISPs, ISPs in Afghanistan and in Zimbabwe, bilateral agreements and multilateral, private and public. Our intent is to be as comprehensive as possible. In 2011, the responses we received represented 41% of the world’s ISPs, across 96 countries; in 2016, 65% of the world’s ISPs, across 148 countries; in 2021, 76% of the world’s ISPs across 192 countries. Our aim is to be equally inclusive this year. Since our principal method of soliciting participation is via NOG mailing lists, I’m afraid many of you will see this message several times, on different lists, for which we apologize in advance. Privacy: In 2011, 2016, and 2021, we promised to collect the smallest set of data necessary to answer the questions, to perform the analysis immediately, and not to retain the data after the analysis was accomplished. In that way, we ensured that the privacy of respondents was fully protected. We did as we said, no data was leaked, and the whole community benefited from the trust that was extended to us. We ask for your trust again now as we make the same commitment to protect the privacy of all respondents, using the same process as was successfully employed the last three times. We are asking for no more data than is absolutely necessary. We will perform the analysis immediately upon receiving all of the data. We will delete the data once the analysis has been performed. The Survey: We would like to know your Autonomous System Number, and the following five pieces of information relative to each other AS you peer with: • Your peer’s ASN (peers only, not upstream transit providers or downstream customers) • Whether a written and signed peering agreement exists (the alternative being a less formal arrangement, such as a "handshake agreement") • Whether the terms are roughly symmetric (the alternative being that they describe an agreement with different terms for each of the two parties, such as one compensating the other, or one receiving more or fewer than full customer routes) • What jurisdiction of governing law is defined, if any • Whether IPv6 routes are being exchanged (this year, we’ll still assume that IPv4 are) The easiest way for us to receive the information is as a tab-text or CSV file or an Excel spreadsheet, consisting of rows with the following columns: Your ASN: Integer Peer ASN: Integer Written agreement: Boolean [true,1,yes,y] or [false,0,no,n] Symmetric: Boolean [true,1,yes,y] or [false,0,no,n] Governing Law: ISO 3166 two-letter country-code, or empty IPv6 Routes: Boolean [true,1,yes,y] or [false,0,no,n] For instance: 42 <tab> 715 <tab> false <tab> true <tab> us <tab> true <cr> 42 <tab> 3856 <tab> true <tab> true <tab> us <tab> true <cr> We need the ASNs so we can avoid double-counting a single pair of peers when we hear from both of them, and so that when we hear about a relationship in responses from both peers we can see how closely the two responses match, an important check on the quality of the survey. As soon as we've collated the data, we'll strip the ASNs to protect privacy, and only the final aggregate statistics will be published. We will never disclose any ASN or any information about any ASN. We'd like to finish collecting data in the first week of October, about two weeks from now. If you’re peering with an MLPA route-server, you’re welcome to include just the route-server’s ASN, if that’s easiest, rather than trying to include each of the peer ASNs on the other side of the route-server. Either way is fine. If all of your sessions have the same characteristics, you can just tell us what those characteristics are once, your own ASN once, and give us a simple list of your peer ASNs. If your number of peers is small enough to be pasted or typed into an email, rather than attached as a file, and that’s simpler, just go ahead and do that. If you have written peering agreements that are covered by non-disclosure agreements, or if your organizational policy precludes disclosing your peers, but you’d still like to participate in the survey, please let us know, and we’ll work with whatever information you’re able to give us and try to ensure that your practices are statistically represented in our results. If you're able to help us, please email me the data in whatever form you can. If you need a non-disclosure, we're happy to sign one. Finally, if there are questions you’d like us to try to answer when we analyze the data, please suggest them, and if there are any additional questions you’d like us to include in future iterations of the survey, please let us know so that we can consider including them in the 2031 survey. Please respond by submitting your survey at https://pch.net/survey or emailing it to me directly (woody(a)pch.net, not replying to the NOG mailing list), by the second week of October. Thank you for considering participating. We very much appreciate it, and we look forward to returning the results to the community. -Bill Woodcock Secretary General Packet Clearing House

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