[AfriNIC-rpd] IPV6 Adoption

Wed Apr 16 18:16:46 UTC 2008

Hi all

The issue of IPv6 in africa is very serious. we should not do as all things 
are moving smoothly ahead.
As we all know AINA has allocated two IPv6 addresses blocs (2001:4200::/23 
and 2c00::/12) to Afrinic, but only a very few african 
institutions/organisations have barely requested the sub-blocs
To encourage the deployment of IPv6 in Africa, Afrinic has set up many 
policies and initiatives. Prices were dropped; consciousness-raising 
lectures and training are being organized in many countries.
Indespite of that the tendency is not a good sign! THERE IS A PROBLEM. Our 
role as a afrinic community is to find the way to solve this problem.

> AfrINIC cannot do this alone and thus needs our support.
Who is AfrINIC? It is a community, you and me...

Back to the situation. Even for the little of sub-blocs (/32) allocated in 
the region, only a part is presented in the internet routing tables, this 
means that a part of the allocated addresses is not actually in use. One 
also note that only one or two countries in the continent are active in the 
deployment of IPv6 networks, as they are using the most of the allocated 
IPv6 addresses.
As we are all aware with,  only South Africa, to a least extent Egypt, which 
is active in the deployment of IPv6 networks in Africa. This show that some 
think can be make in other countries in the continent.

WHY IT IS NO SO IN OTHER COUNTRIES?

Anyway, many IPv6 tests have been made and proved conclusive. This was done 
by using some available techniques in connection with local constraints:

-         IPv6-over-IPv4, communication with ipv6 sites by using the 
existent ipv4 infrastructure(RFC4213, RFC4891)

-         Tunnel broker, for the isolated IPv6 machines (in ipv4 network) 
which want to connect to an existent ipv6 network

-         Teredo (RFC4380), designed to robustly enable ipv6 traffic through 
the NAT keeping then the end-to-end principle even in both sides of the NAT.

     > IMO, I think the issues we need to urgently address are as follows:
>
> (a) Deployment

This shows that the techniques are to certain extent knowned in the 
countinent. WHAT IS MISSING?

> (d) Policy
> IMO, the current v6 policies for the AfriNIC region will suffice,
I agree, at this stage the problem is not the policy

>> the resources in the region but the question is how long and thus  for 
>> future
>> sustainability are we ready for V6 transition ?
It is not a transition-as this means to left v4 ans switch to v6-rather a 
deployment of ipv6...

>> 3) Are you aware of any government supported initiatives around the V6
>> adoption

>> 5) Any suggestions on what we should be doing as a community ??

We all in the community are aware of the obstacles to the deployment of IPv6 
in Africa; to refresh they are the following:

  a.. The lack of information (many ISPs, privates, policymakers are still 
unaware of IPv6)
  b.. The cost of the migration and deployment
  c.. The lack of stimulus
  d.. The unaware of commercial advantages and benefits
  a.. The Lack of public sector commitment

Now the problem is WHAT SHOULD BE DONE? WHO SHOULD DO WHAT?

 Sorry for being so long.

Regards

Philemon

KISSANGOU Jean Philemon
Directeur Technique DRTVnet (ISP)
BP. 2852 Brazzaville Congo
Tel. 002425360396
www.drtvnet.cg
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vincent Ngundi" <vincent at kenic.or.ke>
To: "AfriNIC Resource Policy Discussion List" <rpd at afrinic.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [AfriNIC-rpd] IPV6 Adoption

> Hi Badru et al,
>
> IMO, I think the issues we need to urgently address are as follows:
>
> (a) Deployment
> Let's all walk the talk and lead by example.
>
> - KENIC has deployed IPv6 (dual stack).
>
> (b) Awareness - who should we target? IMO, the decision makers from  the 
> various ICT stakeholders - govt's, private sector, academia, n/w 
> operators).
> AfrINIC cannot do this alone and thus needs our support.
>
> - KENIC held an ICT stakeholders IPv6 sensitisation seminar in March  that 
> brought together members from the above interest groups. We had  over 80 
> participants 70% of whom had not heard about IPv6 before the  seminar!
> - We plan to hold another sensitisation seminar in May this year.
> - KENIC has made presentations on v6 deployment locally/regionally 
> (latest being AfTLD AGM is SA last week) and welcomes such  opportunities.
>
> (c) Capacity Building - who should we target? IMO, the techies and 
> engineers who do the actual deployment
> AfrINIC cannot do this alone and thus needs our support.
>
> - We've organised, in conjunction with AfriNIC, a hands-on IPv6  workshop 
> in Nairobi Kenya in June this year that will see 200 local  engineers 
> trained on the deployment of v6. Then we'll see how to  develop more 
> capacity using local resources.
>
> (d) Policy
> IMO, the current v6 policies for the AfriNIC region will suffice, at 
> least for the foreseeable future. However, v6 related policies like  the 
> "Global Policy for the Allocation of the Unallocated Address  Space" need 
> to be addressed. We should come up with a position on  this, as a region, 
> and I suggest we consider this a target milestone  for the forthcoming 
> AfriNIC public meeting in Rabat.
>
> PS: IMHO, the fees is not an issue, and I think AfriNIC has been  quite 
> proactive/fair on this.
>
> Regards,
>
> -v
>
> On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Badru Ntege wrote:
>> Members
>>
>> On a secondary note I'm curious on how many operational IPv6  networks we
>> have on the continent.  When you look around the continent there are a
>> number of government and Private backed broadband projects which  will 
>> spur
>> demand for existing V4 allocations.  However if as planned the
>> infrastructure growth stimulates the expected economic activity we  will 
>> see
>> demand for Ip resources escalate in the short time we might be able  to 
>> have
>> the resources in the region but the question is how long and thus  for 
>> future
>> sustainability are we ready for V6 transition ?
>>
>> On this I would like to pose a few questions again
>>
>> 1) Are you currently running IPv6 in either test or production mode
>>
>> 2) Are you aware of any Network operators on the continent with either
>> published or internal V6 plans
>>
>> 3) Are you aware of any government supported initiatives around the V6
>> adoption
>>
>> 4) If you are not doing anything now is the reason due to lack of 
>> awareness
>> or is it a deliberate action to sit and wait
>>
>> 5) Any suggestions on what we should be doing as a community ??
>>
>> If anyone can add to or modify the questions above please do so
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Badru
>>
>>
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