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

Thu Apr 30 17:52:27 EAT 2009

thanx Mwende and Mburu for your insights. Very rich links provided below. I quite didnt know that initiallay Shem (Dr. Ochuodho) was the custodian of .KE namespace and then that there was so much drama (resistance) between him and KENIC during the transfer process....

@http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/workshop/cctld/035r1.pdf

but am sure he had his reservations and I can only hope they wont be proved right as we move under the exclusive regulatory regime.

Have a nice Labor day tomorrow but those who can, plse stay online for National IPX theme.

walu.

--- On Thu, 4/30/09, mwende njiraini <mwende.njiraini at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: mwende njiraini <mwende.njiraini at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [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, 5:02 PM
> Hi
> 
> I have the following comments on:
> 
> *IPv6*
> 
> IPv6 presentation done by participants of the Diplo
> Foundation Internet
> Governance Capacity Building Programme at the IGF in
> Hyderabad (
> http://diploedu.diplomacy.edu/poolbin.asp?IDPool=798) is a
> good introduction
> to the issues that we need to consider:
> 
>    - Introduction: What is IPv6, and do we really need it?
> IPv6 Transition:
>    What are the technical, economic and developmental
> aspects of the
>    transition?
>    - IPv6 Main Players: Who are the main players in this
> field, globally,
>    regionally and nationally?
>    - National Case Studies: What is happening in different
> countries? (Kenya
>    included – may be not as detailed!)
> 
> You may wish to get acquitted with the AfriNIC IPv6
> *Policies for
> allocations and assignments* available at
> http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v6200407-000.htm#5
> 
> *.Ke ccTLD*
> 
> The Kenya Communications (Amendment) Act, 2009 (
> http://www.communication.go.ke/media.asp?id=775) section
> 83D states that:  *No
> person all update a repository or administer a sub-domain
> (this I presume
> this will be .co.ke, .ne.ke, .or.ke, etc) except in
> accordance with a
> licence granted under this act.*
> 
> The ccTLD domain is managed in the interest of the local
> internet community.
> The objective of KENIC is "*promote, manage and
> operate the delegated .ke
> ccTLD in the interest of the Kenyan Internet community and
> being mindful of
> the global Internet community interest in consistent with
> Internet
> Corporation for Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN)
> policies*.”  I would
> therefore ask the following question: What in your view
> would be the
> criteria that organizations/institutions will need to
> satisfy in order to be
> licensed to act as repositories or administrators of .KE
> sub domains.  In my
> opinion the organizations/institutions should first and
> foremost act in the
> interest of the ‘local internet community’.
> 
> What do you think would be the effect of separately
> managing sub domain on
> the existing public private partnership model that has been
> used as
> international best practice (
> http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/workshop/cctld/035r1.pdf).
> 
> Finally, I believe it would be of interest for us all to
> listen to the
> following presentation “Evolution of KENIC & Overview
> of the Kenya
> Communications (Amendment) Act of 2008” (
> http://www.kenic.or.ke/2009_KENIC_AGM_Programme.pdf)
> proposed to be
> presented at the KENIC AGM scheduled for 8th May -hope you
> are planning to
> attend J?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Mwende
> 
> *Disclaimer: Views expressed are the author’s own*
> 
> 
> 
> On 4/30/09, John Walubengo <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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