[kictanet] IG Discussions- Day 4 of 10: Critical Internet Resources, IPv6, TLDs

[John Walubengo]

Aiih! Does silence mean consensus/not_sure/not_read/completely_lost? 

Any feedback will be useful...

walu.


--- On Thu, 4/30/09, John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [kictanet] IG Discussions- Day 4 of 10: Critical Internet Resources, IPv6, TLDs
> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 9:23 AM
> I wish to thank all the previous contributors and remind
> Listers that they can still contribute belatedly on previous
> themes - as long as they pick the corresponding/correct
> subject lines.
> 
> Otherwise getting onto today's theme -IPv6 &
> Country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) Management.
> 
> Just some brief background:
> 1) IPv6: is the new protocol (procedure,standard) for any
> device (PC, phone, server, camera, etc) communicating over
> the internet. The old protocol IPv4 is set to reach its
> limit within 2-3yrs. The prominent item with these protocols
> is a unique number allocated to each device that wishes to
> communicate over the internet.  These numbers for IPv4 are
> getting depleted and will be exhausted by 2011/12/13
> depending on which scientists you subscribe to.
> 
> Issue: Put in bread and butter terms, if your organisation
> wanted to extend internet communication to your new branch
> in 2011/12/13, most likely you will not succeed unless the
> Kenyan social and technostructure was ready for the IPv6
> transistion. How ready are we in terms of technical know-how
> to transit devices, networks, applications, users, etc onto
> the new IPv6 platform? In particular what is the Kenyan
> status on this issue? Whose monkey is it to make us ready
> for the transistion and how far are they in terms of
> IPv6-readiness? Or should we just relax, sit back and wait
> for 2011?
> 
> 2)Top Level Domain: Each countries is reserved with an
> internet name (.KE for Kenya, .UG for Uganda, etc) which by
> extension covers corresponding sub-domains such as
> xyz.co.ke, xyz.ac.ke, xyz.or.ke, etc.  How this is managed
> varies accross countries. Indeed in Uganda, the .UG
> namespace was created and managed by some private individual
> (hope this has changed). In Kenya, the top level domain
> name, .KE is managed by KENIC, www.kenic.or.ke, under a
> Public-Private Partnership.
> 
> Issue: Apparently the management of the Kenyan .KE
> namespace is set to change - actually has changed -
> according to the recently enacted Kenya Communication
> Amendment Act (KCA Act 2008).  The .KE namespace will now be
> exclusively managed by the Regulator, CCK. Is this good or
> bad for the internet community? Again, putting it in bread
> and butter terms, how would you like the idea that your e.g.
> www.nation.co.ke site is alive but could be disabled by our
> legally Independent Regulator?
> 
> We have only 1day on this - tomorrow we move onto the
> National IXP infrasture theme. Floor is open for comments,
> clarification, corrections and opinions.
> 
> walu.
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