<html><head><base href="x-msg://3169/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all,<div>Based on the useful Feedback tips I have been receiving on what the FGs should start of with doing here is a quick summary of the FG (some have been added or combined)</div><div><br></div><div>1) Policy and Government</div><div>2) Core, Transit & Peering</div><div>3) Mobile, CPE & Access</div><div>4) Web & Application</div><div><br></div><div>If these FGs seem as a good starting point that covers the needs of the region then we move on to the next step which will be calling put for volunteers to contribute to the TF </div><div>Regards</div><div>Hisham</div><div> <br><div><div>On Jan 30, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Ngundi, Vincent wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="Section1" style="page: Section1; "><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Dear Hisham, team;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Thanks for forming this vital forum. Looking forward to participating and contributing to the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Vincent</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div style="border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; position: static; z-index: auto; "><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:afripv6-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">afripv6-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:afripv6-discuss-bounces@afrinic.net]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Hisham Ibrahim<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday, January 28, 2012 5:10 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>IPv6 in Africa<br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[afripv6-discuss] The African IPv6 Task Force<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Dear all,</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">I am glad to announce that the African IPv6 Task Force AF6TF will should be up and running by mid Feb.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">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><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">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><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">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><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Focus groups</span></b><o:p></o:p></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">1.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">National and Governmental Focus Group</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">The Mandate:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; 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><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">2.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Transit and Peering Focus Group</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">The Mandate:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; 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><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">3.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">DNS and Web Focus Group</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">The Mandate:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">This FG will assist ccTLDs, host and content providers in promotion and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">diffusion of IPv6 capable services on their networks.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">4.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Security and applications Focus Group</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">The Mandate:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">This FG will<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">facilitate 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><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-indent: -0.25in; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">5.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 7pt; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Mobile Focus Group</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">The Mandate:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: justify; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; 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><o:p></o:p></p><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; 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></strong><o:p></o:p></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">I am waiting on your comments and input</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Regards<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Hisham Ibrahim<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">IPv6 PM, AfriNIC<o:p></o:p></div></div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></p></div>_______________________________________________<br>afripv6-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:afripv6-discuss@afrinic.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">afripv6-discuss@afrinic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afripv6-discuss" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afripv6-discuss</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>