Lord Mwesh,<br><br>I am amazed at your mastery of the dynamics associated with IPV6, DNS Sec and the future of the industry, considering that this is coming from the youth, the future is certainly bright :-). I apologise to listers for using the wrong language it was inadvertent, maybe there is some sense, you are certainly on the spot we have no excuse to be left behind by the developed world.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:15 PM, lordmwesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lordmwesh@gmail.com">lordmwesh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Policy on IPV6 would come in handy. Assume that one day we wake up, and there are no more public IPV4 to allocate, yet our companies and government agencies are stuck with IPV4 hardware. According to AFRINIC, we only have like 370 days to exhaustion of IPV4. We are coming to an era where all appliances home and industrial will be IP based. I dream of a day when I will turn on my home alarm from the office, or when I will turn off the fridge from another country.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">@Barrack, you are right by calling us names "A copy paste society" </font><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"><span>J</span></span><font face="Times New Roman">. But don’t forget the East achieved innovation and growth by first realizing that "imitate then innovate" is just as good. Ask Tata motors who now own big brands like Land Rover. Isaac Newton put it correctly, " If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. ". On us being a copy paste society, you realize the problems we face, struggling with the basic essentials of life, that being food, health, and shelter, and also the mediocrity of our politicians that filters through to the down trodden. Congratulations to the relevant Kenyan Ministries of Technology which have really endeavored to be being abreast with changing trends in the tech field despite the many challenges we face. On innovation, our universities and institutes have outdates labs, and teach outdated subject that were copy pasted some years back from the west. Solutions to these problems have to be found.</font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">As much as Muchuki has put a good effort in explaining the update of IPV6 in Kenya, we are far behind our Brothers in South Africa as shown <a href="http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/all/?country=za" target="_blank">http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/all/?country=za</a></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Early adoption of IPV6 would help us learn and get experience on the various services and innovation that we can implement on the new IP scheme. We don’t want to be struggling with implementing IPV6 systems decades down the line after the west are comfortably using theirs. Michuki put it correctly, we need the experience of using the new scheme, not just the theory we learn in Cisco classes. And experience can only be achieved by implementation</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">DNSSEC signing of the root domain server will surely improve cyber security. We all know DNSSEC has been adopted by Internet Society through the <a href="http://isoc.org" target="_blank">isoc.org</a> domain, and the Public Interest Registry also announced that the entire .org domain is now running on DNSSEC. In the KENIC AGM, the Chairman Mr Burachara hinted that they are exploring DNSSEC, with an aim of implementing it. Maybe the Chairman or Joe can clarify further </font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Some social complexities of DNSSEC according to </font><a href="http://epic.org/privacy/dnssec/" target="_blank"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">http://epic.org/privacy/dnssec/</font></a><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> have been identified</font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The DNS system consists of both resolvers (find the DNS data for a DNS name) and hosts (those that publish DNS data for a domain name). The pilot in Sweden has shown that DNSSEC is only of value when both the hosts and resolvers deploy </font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">The implementation of DNSSEC has proven to be pricely and it is difficult to develop a viable business model and pricing strategy. Sweden proposed a skimming strategy: setting the price high and lowering it to increase demand.</font></li>
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