Hi Badru et al,
IMO, I think the issues we need to urgently address are as follows:
(a) Deployment
Let's all walk the talk and lead by example.
- KENIC has deployed IPv6 (dual stack).
(b) Awareness - who should we target? IMO, the decision makers from
the various ICT stakeholders - govt's, private sector, academia, n/w
operators).
AfrINIC cannot do this alone and thus needs our support.
- KENIC held an ICT stakeholders IPv6 sensitisation seminar in March
that brought together members from the above interest groups. We had
over 80 participants 70% of whom had not heard about IPv6 before the
seminar!
- We plan to hold another sensitisation seminar in May this year.
- KENIC has made presentations on v6 deployment locally/regionally
(latest being AfTLD AGM is SA last week) and welcomes such
opportunities.
(c) Capacity Building - who should we target? IMO, the techies and
engineers who do the actual deployment
AfrINIC cannot do this alone and thus needs our support.
- We've organised, in conjunction with AfriNIC, a hands-on IPv6
workshop in Nairobi Kenya in June this year that will see 200 local
engineers trained on the deployment of v6. Then we'll see how to
develop more capacity using local resources.
(d) Policy
IMO, the current v6 policies for the AfriNIC region will suffice, at
least for the foreseeable future. However, v6 related policies like
the "Global Policy for the Allocation of the Unallocated Address
Space" need to be addressed. We should come up with a position on
this, as a region, and I suggest we consider this a target milestone
for the forthcoming AfriNIC public meeting in Rabat.
PS: IMHO, the fees is not an issue, and I think AfriNIC has been
quite proactive/fair on this.
Regards,
-v
On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Badru Ntege wrote:
Members
On a secondary note I'm curious on how many operational IPv6
networks we
have on the continent. When you look around the continent there are a
number of government and Private backed broadband projects which
will spur
demand for existing V4 allocations. However if as planned the
infrastructure growth stimulates the expected economic activity we
will see
demand for Ip resources escalate in the short time we might be able
to have
the resources in the region but the question is how long and thus
for future
sustainability are we ready for V6 transition ?
On this I would like to pose a few questions again
1) Are you currently running IPv6 in either test or production mode
2) Are you aware of any Network operators on the continent with either
published or internal V6 plans
3) Are you aware of any government supported initiatives around the V6
adoption
4) If you are not doing anything now is the reason due to lack of
awareness
or is it a deliberate action to sit and wait
5) Any suggestions on what we should be doing as a community ??
If anyone can add to or modify the questions above please do so
Regards
Badru
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