Dear McTim, thank you, for youre insightful thoughts..... if I read you correct....is that Kenya is where it is regarding to IPV6, because of lack of Knowledge or Capacity? e.g we do have engineers- so that shouldn't be the reason why SA is ahead of us in terms of deployment, right? Kind Regards, On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:08 PM, McTim <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:15 AM, lordmwesh <[email protected]> wrote:
Policy on IPV6 would come in handy.
We have a Pan-African IPv6 policy. You can read it here:
http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2004-v6-001.htm
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.
Unless their kit is like 15 years old, then this is not the case. All *Nix boes, Apple, and Windows (NT and after IIRC) are v6 ready.
It's the CPEs/home routers that we need to be concerned about. Many are not v6 compatible. Doesn't matter where you are in the world.
According to AFRINIC, we only have
like 370 days to exhaustion of IPV4.
Well, what does that mean? It means that IANA will have no more /8s of v4 to allocate to RIRs. AfriNIC will have v4 for at least another year after that.
@Barrack, you are right by calling us names "A copy paste society" J. 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.
TATA also run SEACOM and have a PoP in KE.
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 On innovation, our universities and institutes have outdates labs, and teach outdated subject that were copy pasted some years back from the west.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.
KENET is implementing v6 across its network, no?
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 http://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/all/?country=za
as expected..they are a bigger market and have more engineers to do things like deploy v6.
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.
"early adoption" would have been done a decade ago.
want to be struggling with implementing IPV6 systems decades down the
We don’t line
after the west are comfortably using theirs.
Not to worry, the West will implement v6 pole pole, just like KE.
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
that's right, have you dual stacked your network? Maybe we should have a competition amongst network operators?
DNSSEC signing of the root domain server will surely improve cyber
security.
only if your nameserver uses DNSSEC.
Some social complexities of DNSSEC according to http://epic.org/privacy/dnssec/ have been identified
a page that has a misleading headline of "Google Expands Control of Internet Architecture:" leads me to think twice about their perspective.
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).
hmmm, I would say there are resolvers and other nameservers, not hosts.
The pilot in
Sweden has shown that DNSSEC is only of value when both the hosts and resolvers deploy
of course, all links in the chain MUST speak DNSSEC.
@Walu: Dude, It';s not your fault, and it's not the fault of AfriNIC/Kenyan IPv6 Task Force. If ISPs don't use v6 it's becasue there is no DEMAND for it (yet). Customers create demand, the GoK could mandate v6 connectivity in all their contracts with ISPs, starting with KT/Oranje running their fiber net.
I think your being a bit paranoid about the rich world here....It is not possible for the well off to "grab all the Internet Resources from the poor South...". You shold know this, and being part of the Board of the NIC, you should fight this kind of misperception, not perpetuate it!!
-- Cheers,
McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
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