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From: Gora Mohanty <>
Date: Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:01 AM
Subject: [Freed-managers] Fw: [X-Post] Interaction with Nixi: Planning
meeting Fri., 9
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Hello all,
Firstly, a formal meeting announcement:
Event: ILUG-Delhi meeting
Date: Fri., May 9th
Time: 6.30pm
Agenda: o Brainstorming for working with NIXI. Please
see details below.
Participants: All on this list.
Venue: BB/3G, DDA flats, Munirka.
Contact: Me (9868527992)
We had an interesting meeting today with some people from
NIXI, the National Internet Exchange of India, which is now
set up as a not-for-profit company. Briefly, NIXI wishes to
play the role of a bridge between industry, government, and
the FOSS community, and has certain advantages over normal
government agencies when it comes to funding projects in this
area.
Here are some ideas mooted from their side. Please note
that these are open to people from anywhere in India, and
they would like to see country-wide participation:
1. Preparing for roll-out of internationalised top-level
domain names, i.e., web URLs entirely in Indian languages.
ICANN should be approving this in some 6 months time, so
NIXI wants people to participate in an experimental setup
on a private (to India) network which can go public on the
Internet on ICANN approval. This work would include the
preparation of a write-up on potential issues involving
canonical representations for Unicode names, phishing and
other security loopholes, etc. Sarai might be hosting an
informal seminar to introduce this topic, in a week or
two.
2. ipv6 roll-out: NIXI would like to have a parallel ipv6
network in 1-2 months time. They have already done training
and awareness sessions for ipv6 routing, but largely using
proprietary tools. They would like community folk to hold
training sessions for (a) MCA-level students, and
(b) technical folk in small/medium enterprises, universities,
or other institutions.
3. Software for, and management of .in domain name registry:
Currently, they use proprietary software, and databases,
and would like to switch to open-source alternatives.
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