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

Thu Apr 30 16:02:19 EAT 2009

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:
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> 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.
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> Otherwise getting onto today's theme -IPv6 & Country code Top Level Domain
> (ccTLD) Management.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> We have only 1day on this - tomorrow we move onto the National IXP
> infrasture theme. Floor is open for comments, clarification, corrections and
> opinions.
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