(Please note the cross-posting to several lists, and to other
people, and trim follow-ups.)
Hello everyone,
Below are brief minutes from another very pleasant meeting with
Mr. Rajesh Aggarwal, and Mr. Ajay Tripathi from NIXI. We had
interesting discussions which cannot be captured here, but the
long and short of it is that we have decided to move ahead
with the specific tasks outlined below. This will be the basis
for a more specific proposal to be sent to NIXI by about the
middle of next week.
NIXI is also very much interested in having participation from
people in other locations in India, and you are invited to contact
us, or to write to NIXI directly. If doing the latter, please keep
us in the loop by copying the message to the ILUG-D mailing list,
or to anyone on the ILUG-D managing committee, so that we can
coordinate work. Also, please feel free to forward this message to
other lists.
Regards,
Gora
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Minutes from meeting with NIXI, Wed., 9/7, 3pm at BB/3G, DDA Flats,
Munirka:
1. Internationalised domain-name issues.
o Domain names in all languages separately.
o Country has control over its names in all of its official
languages, e.g., .in, .india, .bharat, .भा , .भारत.
o Cannot use Unicode because of legacy equipment.
o Using punicode as a temporary pages. Standard mapping to
Unicode.
o Needed input from community to work on:
- Variant tables for punicode. Start as a pilot in a few
languages, and eventually do all official languages.
NIXI to provide initial details about the work involved.
- Open-source solutions for .in registry. Some open-source
possibilities exist: Cocca (http://cocca.cx). Need
programmers to update, and maintain the software. Some
4.7 lakh domains now registered. As soon as possible,
otherwise tendering will need to happen in a few months
time. Experiment with 10-15 names.
2. Servers:
o Open-source mirrors can directly connect to backbone with
1Gbps, but 2 Mbps to other points in India. People local to
servers (i.e., in big cities) can download at high speed.
Can replicate servers in different major cities. Devdas
has been volunteered to look over requirements for
Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and SourceForge, and come up
with hardware specifications.
o Servers for specific tasks: NIXI can make available some
servers, and/or rackspace in their network centres for
several servers. Currently, we have in mind servers for
IndLinux and other Indian language computing work,
NewsRack, CreativeDot, Sanskrit utilities, and Hindawi.
If you have a specific open-source application in mind
that you need webspace for, please let us know within
a couple of days, as specific requirements will be
sent to NIXI soon.
3. IPv6: In Delhi, Ashish Shukla to be put in touch with NIXI,
in consultation with Raj Mathur. Need volunteers in other
Indian cities, as NIXI would like to do up to 20 workshops
in 20 different locations. Hands-on workshops in using ipv6,
and train-the-trainers programme. Also, implement
incentive schemes for adoption. Courseware development,
webcasting of seminars, and providing technical expertise
in ipv6 support to NIXI.
4. Localisation: 10 fellowships for languages, Kashmiri, one
or more Northeastern languages (Manipuri?), and a few workshops.
OpenOffice, Mozilla review, packaging, and integration. To
be handled through IndLinux/Sarai.
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