<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Kudos to CCK for this milestone. <br><br>How I wish that one will wake up tomorrow and see this splashed as headline news in our Kenyan dailies and TV channels, instead of the usual not-so-helpful politicking. <br><br>Herbert<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 10/25/09, kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke <i><kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke <kictanet-request@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Subject: kictanet Digest, Vol 29, Issue 60<br>To: herbertwamalwa@yahoo.com<br>Date: Sunday, October 25, 2009, 12:00 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Send kictanet mailing list submissions to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke"
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named African regulator of the year (<a ymailto="mailto:alice@apc.org" href="/mc/compose?to=alice@apc.org">alice@apc.org</a>)<br> 2. IPv6 addresses: North American ISPs are now grabbing for them<br> over IPv4 (<a ymailto="mailto:alice@apc.org" href="/mc/compose?to=alice@apc.org">alice@apc.org</a>)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:36:55 -0000 (GMT)<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:alice@apc.org" href="/mc/compose?to=alice@apc.org">alice@apc.org</a><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="/mc/compose?to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="/mc/compose?to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>Subject: [kictanet] CCK named African regulator of the
year<br>Message-ID:<br> <<a ymailto="mailto:53253.121.160.190.161.1256449015.squirrel@sqmail.gn.apc.org" href="/mc/compose?to=53253.121.160.190.161.1256449015.squirrel@sqmail.gn.apc.org">53253.121.160.190.161.1256449015.squirrel@sqmail.gn.apc.org</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<br><br><br>CCK named African regulator of the year<br>BY EVELYNE NJOROGE<br>Updated 3 hours 7 minutes ago<br><br>CAPE TOWN, Oct 24- The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) is this<br>year's winner of the African Infrastructure Regulator of the Year Award.<br><br>CCK was declared the winner by the investment communications group, Africa<br>Investor in Cape Town, South Africa, at a ceremony attended by venture<br>capitalists, developers, and infrastructure experts and policy makers.<br><br>"We are delighted with the award, which goes to show that our efforts to<br>promote an excellent and stable investment climate in
communications<br>industry in the country are being noted as progressive and exceptional",<br>said CCK Director General Charles Njoroge of the award.<br><br>He attributed the recognition to their policy of having consultations<br>before making any major decision that affects the industry.<br><br>Mr Njoroge called on investors in the Information and Communications<br>Technology industry to take advantage of the stable regulatory climate and<br>improved infrastructure to set up businesses in the country.<br><br>"The country's broadband infrastructure offers investors tremendous<br>opportunities for their businesses and we expect to see more investments<br>in all facets of the economy that will be driven by the available reliable<br>connectivity," he said.<br><br><a href="http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/Kenyabusiness/CCK-named-African-regulator-of-the-year-3251.html"
target="_blank">http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/Kenyabusiness/CCK-named-African-regulator-of-the-year-3251.html</a><br><br>CCK won the award for its role in seeking to develop regulations that are<br>aimed at alleviating poverty and improving the investment climate in<br>partnership with the private sector.<br><br>"Through infrastructure investment, the private sector operating in Africa<br>has established itself as a critical development partner," said Africa<br>Investor's Vice Chairman Hubert Danso while presenting the award.<br><br>CCK beat its counterparts in Nigeria (Nigeria Communications Commission<br>-NCC) and South Africa (Independent Communications Authority of South<br>Africa -ICASA) that had also been short listed for the award.<br><br>Other award category winners included Africa Development Bank as the<br>Sponsor of the Year Award, and the Industrial Development Corporation,<br>which won the award in the Developer of the Year
category.<br><br>The Power Deal of the Year award went to Exxaro, while Nedbank Capital<br>took Transport Deal of the Year Award, and Rand Merchant Bank led the way<br>with Social Infrastructure Deal of the Year.<br><br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:04:50 -0000 (GMT)<br>From: <a ymailto="mailto:alice@apc.org" href="/mc/compose?to=alice@apc.org">alice@apc.org</a><br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="/mc/compose?to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <<a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="/mc/compose?to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>><br>Subject: [kictanet] IPv6 addresses: North American ISPs are now<br> grabbing for them over IPv4<br>Message-ID:<br> <<a
ymailto="mailto:54320.121.160.190.161.1256454290.squirrel@sqmail.gn.apc.org" href="/mc/compose?to=54320.121.160.190.161.1256454290.squirrel@sqmail.gn.apc.org">54320.121.160.190.161.1256454290.squirrel@sqmail.gn.apc.org</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1<br><br>IPv6 addresses: North American ISPs are now grabbing for them over IPv4<br>By Carolyn Duffy Marsan<br>Created 2009-10-19 02:29PM<br><br>U.S. ISPs are requesting more IPv6 [1] addresses and fewer IPv4 addresses<br>than ever before -- a sign that carriers are investing in the future<br>amidst one of the deepest recessions[2] in modern history.<br><br>The shift in IP address requests shows that North American carriers are<br>getting ready for the long-anticipated upgrade [3] of the Internet's main<br>communications protocol from IPv4, the current standard, to the<br>next-generation IPv6.<br><br>[ What U.S. businesses are missing [4] in their slow move to IPv6. |<br>Despite
businesses' faint interest, the shift to IPv6 [5] is seen as an<br>inevitable | Keep up on the latest networking news with our Technology:<br>Networking newsletter [6]. ]<br><br>IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support 4.3 billion individually<br>addressed devices on the Internet. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses and<br>supports an inconceivably huge amount of devices: 2 to the 128th power.<br>IPv6 also offers built-in security and enhanced network management<br>features when compared to IPv4, which is expected to run out [7] of<br>address space by 2012.<br><br>In the first nine months of 2009, the American Registry for Internet<br>Numbers (ARIN [8]) received 300 requests from carriers for blocks of IPv6<br>address space. This compares to 250 requests received in all of 2008 and<br>2007.<br><br>"We're seeing an uptick in IPv6 address space requests; it's a very<br>significant growth rate," says John Curran, president and CEO of ARIN.<br>"We've seen a
slight slowdown in IPv4 address space requests?It's probably<br>dropped off 10 percent or 20 percent year over year."<br><br>Curran says ARIN is beginning to see ISPs such as Comcast [9] and Verizon<br>Wireless [10] put a great deal of effort into migrating from IPv4-based<br>networks to those built using IPv6.<br><br>"ISPs are asking for IPv6 addresses so they can make their networks<br>IPv6-enabled so they are ready [for the future]," Curran says. "We give<br>each ISP enough IPv6 addresses to support 4 billion networks, and each<br>network can contain trillions and trillions of hosts."<br><br>Curran says the recession is not hampering carriers' interest in IPv6.<br><br>"IPv6 solves a problem that hasn't happened yet. So seeing any demand is<br>surprising, and it means that organizations are planning ahead," Curran<br>says. "The current weakness in the economy?is not dampening down IPv6<br>demand significantly because IPv6 is right around the corner
for ISPs. We<br>may be two years away from the IPv4 free pool of addresses running out,<br>but two years if you're an ISP is enough time to get one network deployed.<br>Two years is within everyone's planning horizon."<br><br>ARIN will detail the latest statistics about IPv6 address demand in North<br>America at a policy meeting [2] that will be held this week in Dearborn,<br>Mich.<br><br>ARIN also will discuss several proposed policy changes related to IPv4<br>depletion and the push towards IPv6 adoption. These include:<br><br> * Allowing ARIN to <a href="https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2009_8.html" target="_blank">https://www.arin.net/policy/proposals/2009_8.html</a><br>[11] ">reduce the size of IPv4 address space allocations to carriers<br>as the industry gets closer to IPv4 address depletion.<br> * Increasing access to IPv6 [12] address space by removing the<br>requirement for carriers to first demonstrate that
they have hundreds<br>of customers.<br> * Allowing carriers to run multiple, discrete IPv6 networks [13] that<br>don't have to be connected to each other, such as community networks.<br> * Reconsideration of a current policy that requires the regional<br>registries including ARIN to evenly divide up any IPv4 space [14] they<br>are able to recover.<br><br>ARIN will hold elections at this meeting for several open board of<br>trustees and advisory council openings.<br><br> * Networking<br> * IPv6<br> * Internet<br><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="/mc/compose?to=kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br><a href="http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet"
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