[afripv6-discuss] First tests with IPv6

[Victor Ndonnang]

Hi,
First of all, I would like to congratulate Willy and others behind this excellent initiative that will for sure contribute to an effective adoption and use IPv6 in Cameroon from the end-user perspective.

The fact that today we have many ISPs and other organizations in Cameroon with IPv6 blocs (even if they are not effectively use) is a result of a Projet named "Impact IPv6 CM" initiated by ISOC Cameroon Chapter back in 2011. The project was focused on awareness and trainings at the ISPs level.  I hope Janvier Ngnoulaye (ISOC Cameroon chair) who lead that project is following this user-centric initiative and will join to share the outcomes of the Impact IPv6 CM project. 

To answer Nishal's question: "Institut de la Gouvernance Numerique Universitaire" is an institute of the University of Yaounde. It is supposed to be the LIR for all Cameroon universities. Most of the training sessions of Impact IPv6 CM was organized at that institute and by the way, Janvier Ngnoulaye is it's technical manager. 

I was part of the project before I moved to the US and I'm so happy to see that things are moving forward and now end users are  join the movement and putting more pressure on local ISPs.

Less than 20% of the Cameroon population is connected to the Internet and we do need IPv6 to connect and offer innovate services to the 80% that is not yet online.

All the best.
Victor. 


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> On Jul 16, 2015, at 5:53, "Nishal Goburdhan" <nishal at controlfreak.co.za> wrote:
> 
>> On 16 Jul 2015, at 8:52, Willy Ted MANGA wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Nishal,
> 
> hi,
> 
> 
>> Yep, Camtel has at least 8 IPv6 prefixes and I will bug them soon on
>> that purpose :)
> 
> not according to afrinic:
> katala:~ nishal$ grep 'CM|ipv6' delegated-afrinic-latest
> afrinic|CM|ipv6|2001:4268::|32|20060613|allocated
> afrinic|CM|ipv6|2c0f:f660::|32|20131127|allocated
> afrinic|CM|ipv6|2c0f:f6a0::|32|20140129|allocated
> afrinic|CM|ipv6|2c0f:f6c8::|32|20140311|allocated
> afrinic|CM|ipv6|2c0f:f7d0::|32|20141230|allocated
> afrinic|CM|ipv6|2c0f:fae0::|32|20111124|allocated
> katala:~ nishal$
> 
> ….but that does mean that there are six other organisations - likely all LIRs - in cameroon with IPv6.
> perhaps, as an exercise, you can look them up, and try to get IPv6 to each of them.
> 
> “org-name:  Institut de la Gouvernance Numerique Universitaire”
> is this a university?  that’s probably a good place to start.  disappointing to not see more universities on that list, so maybe you can think about how to get more of them using v6?
> 
> as a second step, perhaps you have friends at other organisations in cameroon (i can see no end-user - or more correctly to me, end-site assignments).  that may not be ISPs, that could also go through the effort of requesting address space from afrinic, and getting this routed.  so instead of trying to force the CAMTELs/MTNs of the world, who have interests other than IPv6 it seems, you can get the “small guys” communicating instead?
> 
> 
>> That's why I start by a tunnel and suggest some informal lab like this
>> one https://pad.april.org/p/labcnfy this saturday  with cmNOG folks.
> 
> it’s good to see cmnog taking off.
> i admit i stopped listening in here when nothing happened for a long time.
> 
> good luck moving forward.
> 
> —n.
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