CaribNOG
About
CaribNOG is the Caribbean Network Operators Group: a community-led, volunteer-driven institution operating at the intersection of technical practice and regional digital governance.
Founded in 2010, CaribNOG serves Internet infrastructure practitioners and their partners across thirty sovereign and semi-sovereign territories in the Caribbean region. CaribNOG is registered as a nonprofit organisation. It is a Network Operators Group: a community of technical practitioners whose primary governance mechanism is the regional gathering, and whose primary output is the operational knowledge, professional relationships, and institutional trust that the gathering produces.
Governance
CaribNOG operates under a governance structure designed to preserve the community’s independence of judgment, technical integrity, and long-term institutional continuity. Governance documents, organisational records, and formal institutional frameworks are available here.
Leadership
CaribNOG’s Executive Team and governance body carry responsibility for the community’s strategic direction, operational delivery, editorial standards, and institutional relationships.
Executive Team bios and governance body members are populated from current institutional records.
Partners and Allies
CaribNOG operates within a network of regional and global institutions whose work intersects with Caribbean Internet development. These relationships are built on shared purpose, mutual respect, and the conviction that the Caribbean Internet is strengthened when the institutions that serve it work together.
ARIN — American Registry for Internet Numbers
ARIN is the Regional Internet Registry for Canada, the United States, and many Caribbean and North Atlantic territories. CaribNOG’s relationship with ARIN is one of the community’s most longstanding and consequential institutional partnerships, encompassing RPKI adoption, number resource management, Caribbean technical forums, and community education. ARIN has been a consistent and foundational supporter of CaribNOG’s work since the community’s earliest years.
Caribbean Telecommunications Union
The CTU is the Caribbean’s primary intergovernmental body for telecommunications and ICT policy. CaribNOG’s partnership with the CTU spans IXP development, regional policy engagement, and the shared conviction that Caribbean digital infrastructure must be governed by Caribbean institutions.
Caribbean Datacenter Association
The CDA represents Caribbean data centre operators and engages CaribNOG’s community on the infrastructure and operational standards that Caribbean digital services depend on.
LACNIC
LACNIC is the Regional Internet Registry for Latin America and the Caribbean. CaribNOG’s relationship with LACNIC includes the FRIDA grant programme that has supported the caribixps.com initiative and other regional digital development projects.
ISOC — Internet Society
ISOC’s mission of an open, globally connected, secure, and trustworthy Internet aligns directly with CaribNOG’s work in the Caribbean. The partnership includes MANRS promotion, Chapter engagement, and shared advocacy for Internet development across the region.
ICANN
ICANN’s role in the global coordination of Internet naming and numbering intersects CaribNOG’s work in DNS security, governance engagement, and the promotion of KINDNS across Caribbean operators.
Packet Clearing House
PCH’s support for IXP establishment and DNS infrastructure across the region has made it a consistent partner in CaribNOG’s critical infrastructure development work. PCH’s operational expertise and global network have been directly applied in Caribbean IXP projects including CaribIX.
Contact
We welcome contact from community members, prospective participants, sponsors, partners, researchers, media, and anyone with a genuine interest in Caribbean Internet development.
CaribNOG is based in the Caribbean and operates across the region. We respond to every genuine enquiry with the seriousness we bring to everything else we do.