<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Dear Harry,<br><br>COMESA already has a concept paper on the RIXP. Please contact the Director of Information and Networking in COMESA Secretariat Sherin Shoukry on shoukry@comesa.int for more information. Also visit www.comesa.int and see the progress made in regard to IT. There you will find the reports of the IT technical committees already held.<br><br>Hope this helps.<br><br>Esther<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 6/2/10, Harry Delano <i><harry@comtelsys.co.ke></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Harry Delano <harry@comtelsys.co.ke><br>Subject: Re: [kictanet] The urgent case for a Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP)<br>To: esther_wanjau@yahoo.com<br>Cc: "'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Wednesday,
June 2, 2010, 11:17 PM<br><br><div id="yiv412182131">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="953371706-03062010"><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Thanks alot John, Am checking this out...</font></span></div>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> John Kariuki
[mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 03, 2010
7:07 AM<br><b>To:</b> harry@comtelsys.co.ke<br><b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy
Discussions<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [kictanet] The urgent case for a Regional
Internet Exchange Point (RIXP)<br></font><br></div>
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<div>There is a project called "EAC-BIN" under "Connect Africa
Initiative". I would suggest you search the two in the web for more
details.</div>
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<div>John Kariuki<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 2/6/10, Harry Delano
<i><harry@comtelsys.co.ke></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;"><br>From:
Harry Delano <harry@comtelsys.co.ke><br>Subject: [kictanet] The
urgent case for a Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP)<br>To:
ngethe.kariuki2007@yahoo.co.uk<br>Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions"
<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br>Date: Wednesday, 2 June, 2010,
20:39<br><br>
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<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">Listers,</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">I have
noticed, that while all laudable efforts in speeding up
our broadband connectivity to the</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">rest of the
world hits top gear, saddeningly regional local
interconnectivity lags </font></span><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">behind. Why
</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">is this
so...?</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">For
instance reaching a branch office located in Tanzania from
their Kenya HQ office,or vice </font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">versa means
traffic transits out from our cyberspace to some international
exchange point</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">somwhere in
London, hits the return trip back via some other Link to Dar.
This especially</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">affects VOIP
connectivity and quality, between interconnected offices, and other
services</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">that rely on
good QOS.</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">This,
especially while we are working on the economic, Social, and perhaps
Political </font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">intergration
of the Comesa block seems to fly in the face of the major milestones
that have</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">been
achieved in the Telecommunication sectors of the member countries, and I
strongly</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">suggest the
industry addresses this urgently. We need a Regional Internet
Exchange point </font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">set up.
Perhaps name it COMESA-IXP or something</font></span><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">. But one thing is
clear; the more we</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">each send
traffic destined locally on a roundtrip to Europe or elsewhere and back,
means</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">we incur
huge transiting costs in the process, which dollars that we export out
should be</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">be used to
expand and develop our local & Regional interconnection
capacity..</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">I think,
this is an issue worth being addressed and I'd be interested to
discuss this more</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial">with
anyone interested to drive this forward.
Anyone..?</font></span></div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"><font size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div><span class="265230719-02062010"></span><font face="Arial"><font size="2">R<span class="265230719-02062010">egards,</span></font></font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><font size="2"><span class="265230719-02062010">Harry</span></font></font></div></div><br>-----Inline
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