Dear All;<br>I wonder if we can find the way to work at sub-regional lebel to be able to accelerate progress within W, E, N, S, C regions.<br>Best Regards,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/28 Hisham Ibrahim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hisham@afrinic.net">hisham@afrinic.net</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Dear all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">I am glad to announce that the African IPv6 Task Force AF6TF will
should be up and running by mid Feb.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">I am sharing some initial thoughts to the mailing list and am
waiting on your feedback and of curse your participation to the TF.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">The idea of establishing a regional task force that that focuses its
efforts on the uptake of IPv6 deployment within the region has been discussed
for sometime in the African region.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">To achieve this goal the
African IPv6 Task Force (AF6TF) divided its work scope among several focus
groups to provide a more specialized approach and measurable targets.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Focus groups</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family:Arial"><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial">National and Governmental Focus Group</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">The Mandate:<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">This FG will
assist governmental members and policy makers in defining and promoting a clear
dated roadmap for the IPv6 implementation strategies on their large national
networks and backbones.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family:Arial"><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Transit and Peering Focus Group</span></b></p><p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">The Mandate:<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">This FG will
assist transit and peering providers in developing and implementing processes
and best practice scenarios to assist with the proper and efficient deployment
of IPv6 in their networks.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family:Arial"><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial">DNS and Web Focus Group</span></b></p><p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">The Mandate:<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">This FG will
assist ccTLDs, host and content providers in promotion and </span><span style="font-family:Arial">diffusion of IPv6 capable services on their networks.</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family:Arial"><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Security and applications Focus Group</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">The
Mandate:</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black"></span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">This FG will </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">facilitate<span> collaboration between academic and research
organizations in the development of IPv6 tools, applications and devices. The FG
will attempt to actively contribute to the international standards and
specification bodies tasked with IPv6 matters.</span></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family:Arial"><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Mobile Focus Group</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">The Mandate:<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">This FG will
assist Mobile operators in defining and promoting a clear dated roadmap for the
IPv6 implementation strategies on their networks in preparation for Mobile
Internet and LTE services.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">All of these FGs will report back to a steering committee elected from the active members
participating in the different FG.<span> </span><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p><font face="Arial">The
Secretariat
will be provided by AfriNIC and will work with the Steering Committee to
support each of the FGs, the scope will include also material preparation, meeting
organization, maintaining a mailing list for discussion, along side with
hosting and publishing the Task Force website.</font><u></u><u></u></p><p><font face="Arial">I am waiting on your comments and input</font></p><div>Regards</div><div>Hisham Ibrahim</div><font color="#888888"><div>IPv6 PM, AfriNIC</div>
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