RECAP/RECORDING - Don't Get Left Behind: Inside the African Government IPv6 Accelerator https://isoc.live/21340
Africa's IPv6 capability sits at just 6.13%. AFRINIC's Government IPv6 Accelerator is built to move ministries from awareness to real deployment.
The Internet Last Week
* fragnesia copyfail 3.0
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/13/3
* Let's Encrypt 45-day certs
https://letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/from-90-to-45.html
* Scaleway IP4 address exhaustion
https://status.scaleway.com/incidents/qr8b95119k5z
* AFRINIC and Cloud Innovation rulings
https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/announce/2026/002558.html
* alibaba TLD secure delegation errors
https://dnsviz.net/d/nic.alibaba/agU_vw/dnssec/
https://dnsviz.net/d/alibaba/agVEsg/dnssec/
Weekend Reads
* Rolling the DNS root key
https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2026-05/kskroll.html
* Measuring Internet censorship
https://ooni.org/post/2026-measuring-internet-censorship-trends-challenges-impact/
* How an HTTP header caused time.gov skew
https://alexsci.com/blog/how-time-gov-works/
* Password manager infrastructure in-the-wild
https://censys.com/blog/password-manager-infrastructure/
* Investigating NRS outreach to AFRINIC members
https://circleid.com/posts/registry-under-siege-investigating-nrs-outreach-to-afrinic-members
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
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.
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....
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Dataplane.org
John Kristoff
James Görgen
Max Resing
chirpAFRINIC's Ratified Policy 2020-GEN-006-D3 » #afrinic #governance #policies #misinformation #mail #online #threats [ https://afrinic.net/communique-response-to-member-concerns-on-misinformation-campaign-regarding-afrinic-s-ratified-policy-2020-gen-006-d3 ] #informatiqueIf 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 »
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.
Martin Clavey