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