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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 28 Sep '26

28 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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call for volunteers - INX Management Committee (2026-2028)
by Nishal Goburdhan 02 Sep '26

02 Sep '26

[with apologies if you receive multiple copies] Hello everyone, INX-ZA operate community-run Internet exchange points, with the management committee elected from the general Internet community. We hold annual elections to elect new members to the management committee for a 2year term. This is your chance to contribute to the management and operations, of these 100% community operated IXPs, to grow a better peering environment for yourselves. Elected persons are natural persons; ie. they do not represent any particular organisation, and they do not have to be from a participating network at any of the INXes, nor from any particular geography. It is expected that volunteers have a legitimate interest in improving the peering landscape. The terms of reference for INX committee members, is available online at https://www.inx.net.za/display/pub/INX+Committee. Committee member usually meet online once a month, to set policy and provide managerial oversight to the INXs' operations. Committee members may also meet in person, up to twice a year. Are you, or someone else at your organisation willing to stand as a candidate for INX-ZA’s Management Committee for 2026-28? If you'd like to suggest someone, or even nominate yourself, please indicate as follows: I'd like to suggest the following potential candidate: Name: Email address: Have you checked if this person is willing? [ ] Yes [ ] Not yet Is there perhaps someone whom you think INX-ZA should approach to potentially serve on the Management Committee? I'd like to suggest the following potential candidate: Name: Email address: Have you checked if this person is willing? [ ] Yes [ ] Not yet If you feel up to the challenge, and want to contribute to the peering community, please reply to inxcom26(a)inx.net.za, by 23h59 UTC 19 September 2026. Elections will be held online, with details to follow. -- Nishal Goburdhan INX-ZA

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AFRINIC Announces Mr Mike Silber as CEO Designate, Assuming Office as Chief Executive Officer on 1 January 2027
by AFRINIC Communication 24 Aug '26

24 Aug '26

AFRINIC COMMUNIQUÉ Ebène, Mauritius — Monday, 24 August 2026: The Board of the African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC), with the consent of the Receiver, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Mike Silber as CEO Designate. Mr Silber will assume office as Chief Executive Officer of AFRINIC on 1 January 2027. Following a rigorous, in-depth recruitment process led by the AFRINIC CEO Search Committee initiated by the Receiver and the Board, this appointment reflects AFRINIC's commitment to securing leadership capable of ensuring institutional renewal and stabilisation. Mr Silber currently holds the position of Group Executive: Regulatory Affairs at the MTN Group, supporting a base of over 300 million customers across Africa. He has previously served as Group Chief Regulatory Officer at Liquid Intelligent Technologies and as Chief Administrative Officer at Africa Data Centres. Mr Silber has served on the Board of Directors of ICANN, and as Vice-Chair of the ASO AC, alongside sustained engagement with the ITU, the European Union, the African Union, and national regulators across multiple jurisdictions. He has served on the boards of the .ZA Domain Name Authority, ISPA South Africa, and other industry bodies, and continues to serve the public interest as a Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of the Public Interest Registry and a Director of TENET South Africa. He is an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa and is widely recognised as a leading voice in Internet and e-commerce law, and in the broader regulation of technology, media, and telecommunications across the continent. In appointing Mr Silber, the AFRINIC Board has placed its confidence in a leader who, besides being a seasoned professional, combines deep technical and legal expertise with a well-informed understanding of AFRINIC's specific challenges. The Board expects the incoming CEO to prioritise restoring operational stability, transparent and accountable governance, and rebuilding trust with AFRINIC's members, as well as the wider African Internet community and international partners. With this appointment, the Board is looking forward to a renewed focus on service delivery, resolving AFRINIC's outstanding legal matters, and strengthening institutional capacity for the region's long-term benefit. AFRINIC's recovery will not be the responsibility of just one individual or just one Board. The Board calls on members, staff, partners, and the wider African Internet community to extend their full support and collaboration to Mr Silber as he prepares to take this role. AFRINIC's mission remains to serve as a responsible and effective steward of Internet number resources for Africa, and this depends on the collective commitment of all stakeholders who share a belief in a stable, trusted, and community-driven AFRINIC. The AFRINIC Board warmly welcomes Mr Silber and looks forward to working alongside him and the community to secure a resilient future for AFRINIC and the continued growth of the Internet across Africa. Issued by the AFRINIC Board of Directors and the Receiver

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AFRINIC Members and Stakeholders Survey: Have Your Say
by AFRINIC Communication 17 Aug '26

17 Aug '26

[Version en français au bas] Dear Members and Stakeholders, As AFRINIC continues to strengthen its services, engagement, and role within the African Internet ecosystem, it is important that our future priorities are informed by the needs, expectations, and experiences of the community we serve. We are therefore inviting you to participate in our Members and Stakeholders Survey. Your feedback will help us better understand what is working well, where improvements are needed, and which areas should receive greater attention as we shape AFRINIC’s future direction. The survey is available in both English and French and takes only a few minutes to complete EN - https://vox.afrinic.net/174447?lang=en <https://vox.afrinic.net/174447?lang=en>FR - https://vox.afrinic.net/174447?lang=fr Your input matters. We encourage every AFRINIC member and stakeholder to take a few minutes to share their views. The more responses we receive, the more representative and useful the results will be in guiding our future actions and priorities We also encourage you to share this survey link with colleagues and within your networks to help us reach as many participants.. Thank you in advance for your time and participation. Kind Regards, AFRINIC Communications …………………………………………………………………………………… Enquête auprès des membres et des parties prenantes d’AFRINIC — Donnez votre avis Chers membres et parties prenantes, Alors qu’AFRINIC poursuit ses efforts pour renforcer ses services, son engagement et son rôle au sein de l’écosystème Internet africain, il est essentiel que ses priorités futures soient guidées par les besoins, les attentes et les expériences de la communauté qu’elle sert. Nous vous invitons donc à participer à l'enquête auprès de nos membres et parties prenantes. Vos retours nous aideront à mieux comprendre ce qui fonctionne bien, les domaines qui nécessitent des améliorations, ainsi que les priorités auxquelles AFRINIC devrait accorder davantage d’attention dans les années à venir. L’enquête est disponible en anglais et en français et ne prend que quelques minutes à compléter. EN - https://vox.afrinic.net/174447?lang=en <https://vox.afrinic.net/174447?lang=en>FR - https://vox.afrinic.net/174447?lang=fr Nous encourageons chaque membre et partie prenante à prendre quelques minutes pour partager son point de vue. Plus nous recevrons de réponses, plus les résultats seront représentatifs et utiles pour orienter nos futures actions et priorités. Nous vous encourageons également à partager le lien de cette enquête avec vos collègues et au sein de vos réseaux professionnels afin de nous aider à atteindre le plus grand nombre possible de participants. Nous vous remercions d'avance pour votre temps et votre participation. Cordialement, AFRINIC Communications

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Invitation : ZANOG-WC : 27 August 2026
by Shawn Jooste 13 Aug '26

13 Aug '26

ZANOG is happy to announce our next regional Network Operator Group meeting (Western Cape) of 2026 at Workshop17 Watershed, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, South Africa. Date: Thursday 27 August 2026 Time: 18h00 - 22h00 Venue: Workshop17 Watershed, 17 Dock Rd, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town RSVP here: https://events.nog.net.za/event.php?slug=zanog-wc-82 Venue change: this event is not at Kloof Street. We have moved from Workshop17 Gardens (32 Kloof St) to Workshop17 Watershed at the V&A Waterfront. We will be having the usual evening talks, followed by drinks, snacks and social networking. There is no afternoon workshop this time — evening event only. Talks will start at 18h30, but we encourage arrivals from 18h00 for a bit of mingling, before the event. We are looking for talks. Local NOGs are a great place to share stories or what you have been working on. Let us know if you would like to share your story — email us info[at]nog.net.za A big thank you to FLEXOPTIX for their support and sponsorship of this event. Due to the increased popularity of these events we may limit registrations to two per organisation.

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Reminder: Constitution of the Appeal Committee
by AFRINIC Communication 12 Aug '26

12 Aug '26

[Version en français au bas] Dear PDWG, The AFRINIC Policy Development Appeal Committee, or the Appeal Committee, is a committee appointed by the AFRINIC Board, intended to adjudicate appeals in terms of the Conflict Resolution section of the AFRINIC Policy Development Process (PDP). Any such appeal will involve a disagreement regarding the actions taken by the Chair(s) of the Policy Development Working Group (PDWG). The Appeal Committee Terms of Reference are published at https://www.afrinic.net/appeal-committee.html <https://www.afrinic.net/appeal-committee.html> The AFRINIC Board is hereby calling for nominations from the community for three Appeal Committee positions up for appointment: one former AFRINIC Director, one former PDWG Chair and one active PDWG member. If you are interested to serve on the Appeal Committee, then please fill in the form available at https://vox.afrinic.net/785412?lang=en <https://vox.afrinic.net/785412?lang=en> by 13 August 2026 at 10:00 UTC. Kind Regards AFRINIC ……………………………………….. Chers membres du PDWG, Le Comité d'appel du processus d'élaboration des politiques d'AFRINIC, ou Comité d'appel, est un comité nommé par le Conseil d'administration d'AFRINIC, chargé de statuer sur les appels introduits dans la section « Résolution des conflits » du Processus d'élaboration des politiques (PDP) d'AFRINIC. Tout appel de ce type porte sur un désaccord relatif aux actions entreprises par le ou les président(s) du Groupe de travail sur l'élaboration des politiques (PDWG). Les termes de référence du Comité d'appel sont publiés à l'adresse suivante : https://www.afrinic.net/appeal-committee.html <https://www.afrinic.net/appeal-committee.html> Le Conseil d'administration d'AFRINIC lance par la présente un appel à candidatures auprès de la communauté en vue de pourvoir trois postes au sein du Comité d'appel : un ancien administrateur d'AFRINIC, un ancien président du PDWG et un membre actif du PDWG. Si vous souhaitez siéger au sein du Comité d'appel, veuillez remplir et soumettre le formulaire disponible à l'adresse https://vox.afrinic.net/785412?lang=en <https://vox.afrinic.net/785412?lang=en> avant le 13 août 2026 à 10h00 UTC. Cordialement, AFRINIC

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