Another ipv6 related article about the US government paying more attention.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/us-government-getting-more-interested-in-ipv6.ars

- Martin -

On 2011-01-04, at 8:47 AM, Rocco Radisch IT-Doc24 Ltd wrote:

> Some more background information in which country the v4 addresses will be 
> exhausted first. Which industry will be impacted first and ....
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/2010-in-ip-addresses-225-million-down-496-million-to-go.ars
> 
> Rocco
> 
> On 04/01/2011 5:07 AM, Daniel Bwente wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:50 AM, McTim <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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>
>> Agree, but in countries where the state has taken the initiative to be an 
>> enabler and not enforcer IPv6 adoption has progressed much faster than in 
>> those that have waited for the Network operators, China for instance. 
>>  
>>  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!
>> 
>> Agree as well, actually Mark, Noah, Badru and a couple of others I have 
>> previously engaged off list have been very helpful thus far :) 
>> 
>> > 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
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