Daniel, On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Daniel Bwente <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys > > Forgive the cross posting. does anyone have any information regarding > Uganda's current status
<rant> Sorry to be a bit shirty, but I really object to the notion of talking in terms of nation states adopting v6 (except in terms of gov't networks of course, and policy incentives, etc). Network operators decide when and how to deploy, they just happen to operate in nation states. </rant> pertaining to IPv6 under the following > sub-categories? > > a) Government initiatives (Policy papers, Law, Bill) I don't know, Badru was trying to get them to get a v6 alloc for the gov't fiber, haven't heard if this happened. AFAIK, BoU is the only gov entity that has any v4 space! $whois -h whois.afrinic.net is your friend. > b) Commercial undertakings (ISPs, Telecos, SMEs') 4 have v6, zero in use (announced to world): https://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/dfp/all/?country=ug > c) Advocacy / Promotion and sensitization ventures UG/EAIGF? i-network has has some discussions around it, and AfriNIC has conducted some trainings in UG over the last 5 years. It could be good if LUG/UIXP did a workshop for folks who want an introduction. People like Tinka, Ernest, Hari, Noah are all pretty conversant with it....one of them should be in town eventually, if not now! > d) Research and Technical activities Talk to the REN organisation: ORG-RANO1-AFRINIC org-name: RESEARCH ANDEDUCATION NETWORK OF UGANDA org-type: EU-PI country: UG address: Makerere University address: Lincoln Flat A2 address: P O Box 7062 address: Kampala e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] phone: +256 414 554 804 admin-c: PM5-AFRINIC tech-c: AN7-AFRINIC mnt-ref: AFRINIC-HM-MNT mnt-by: AFRINIC-HM-MNT notify: [email protected] changed: [email protected] 20090211 source: AFRINIC > e) Lessons learned so far It's not rocket science. Tinka did a great prezo on his lessons learned at last AfNOG, Google should know where it is. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
