Daily Recap: 26 November 2013
The 3rd edition of the Africa Operator’s – AfOPs Day was held yesterday. 3 back to back panels were scheduled; IPv6, Infrastructure and Internet Access and Connectivity. The panels were followed by individual presentations on Cyber Security, ICT updates in Chad and a Best Common Operations Practice BoF.
IPv6 Session
The AfOPs kicked off with the IPv6 session. Ahmed Sako, Technical Advisor at the Ministry of Posts and Information and Communication Technology gave a presentation on the National IPv6 Deployment project of Cote D’Ivoire, its set-up, working sessions and evaluation. He was followed by Jan Zorz who spoke about the RIPE 501 and 554 publications, guides to IPv6 deployment and all you need to know equipment-wise for the migration.
AFRINIC Infrastructure
The second panel, an internal AFRINIC update was focused on AFRINIC’s infrastructure. Alain Aina, Special Project Manager and Nishal Goburdhan, Senior Project Manager gave presentations on RPKI and DNSSEC services evolution and IXP Support Initiatives & DNS Programmes respectively. The highly technical presentations were appreciated by an informed audience.
For more information on AFRINIC’s infrastructure please click here: http://www.afrinic.net/en/services
Internet Access and Connectivity
The 3rd session started with a presentation on “A WiMAX solution for an efficient public administration”, by Valentin Boubebe from ANINF, Gabon who talked about the pilot project’s implementation in Gabon. Jan Zorz took the mic again, this time to talk about Best Current 
Operational Practice (BCOP) - updates and results from around the world. After his presentation Jan called for volunteers for the BCOP BoF and his request was met with great enthusiasm, which led to an interesting BoF at the end of the session.
Emile Aben from the RIPE NCC presented the RIPE Atlas Project – Measuring the Internet. Emile gave an in-depth analysis of how RIPE Atlas works and why the Internet should in fact be measured. He also gave a demonstration with the measuring device, an Atlas Probe. For any additional information of Atlas Probes, you can find Emile’s presentation here or you can always have a chat with him or Nishal.
After the panels, Benoit Morel presented on “The Cyber threat: the most complex threat against modern societies” followed by a presentation by Zaki Sabit of HTCE, Chad on Chad ICT Updates. Zaki gave an interesting overview of the current ICT landscape and some of the major progress that has been made namely opening of the market, training sessions for network engineers and many more.
AfricaCERT
The third training day, CSIRT training for technical staff: advanced network monitoring. Moving from the broad view of incident handling, participants went deep into using one specific tool to manage their work within the CSIRT. Packet capture, traffic reconstruction, understanding conversion between hosts and acting accordingly. Participants had to strongly refer to their knowledge of TCP/IP. The day also gave opportunity to listen to visitors from the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA).
FIRE Programme Workshop
The 2 day FIRE Programme Workshop cam to an end yesterday. The two-day workshop covered a range of topics relevant to grant proposal writing as well as a session on how to apply for FIRE grants and awards. The workshop has been video recorded, as a free webinar and will be uploaded on the FIRE and AFRINIC websites as well as AFRINIC's YouTube channel.
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