The Internet Last Week

* AFRINIC services disruption
https://status.afrinic.net/notices/2oqqaqurvbtjedsr-service-degradation-notice
https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/announce/2026/002541.html
* Bluesky outage
https://pckt.blog/b/jcalabro/april-2026-outage-post-mortem-219ebg2
* ip6.arpa TLD NS c.ip6-servers.arpa UDP degradation
https://dnsmon.ripe.net/ip6.arpa?start=2026-04-05T00:00:00.000Z&end=2026-04-11T23:59:00.000Z&zone=ip6.arpa.&protocol=udp
* Gmail end-to-end encryption on mobile enabled
https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/04/gmail-end-to-end-encryption-now-available-on-mobile-devices.html

#AFRINIC #Bluesky #IPv6 #DNS #Gmail #Outages

Um bom debate sobre recursos críticos da Internet na África. O autor denuncia um saque de IPs e nomes de domínio por agentes externos com o beneplácito de entidades privadas que deveriam garantir este direito às nações africanas.

https://circleid.com/posts/africa-is-not-a-digital-quarry

#InternetGovernance #Afrinic

Oh, hey, #IANA assigned a new block of ASNs to #AFRINIC. A good sign that the #Internet #connectivity in #Africa is growing! Keep up the good work! Details here....

#ASN #BGP

If you've been following the #AFRINIC governance situation and drama none of this is new, but it is newsworthy that the WSJ wrote about it:

https://www.wsj.com/business/telecom/africa-ip-addresses-china-3e543b9d?st=EGo327

If you or your colleagues have ROAs in the #AFRINIC #RPKI repository, see this email from @job

Those with a non-conformant subject name can reissue the ROA themselves, the others will need to be fixed by the registry.

https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/dbwg/2025-November/000546.html

Interrogé par Next, le PDG de l’ #ICANN estime que le cas #AfriNIC n’est pas « une faiblesse de l’ensemble du modèle »

https://next.ink/202114/pour-le-pdg-de-licann-le-cas-afrinic-nest-pas-une-faiblesse-de-lensemble-du-modele/

De son côté, @gdesgranges y voit un possible basculement de la gouvernance du Registre Internet régional vers un modèle dans lequel les États auraient plus de pouvoir.