<p dir="ltr">It is good to hear of this development. We need such support now.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Thanks Omo for sharing this information.<br>
Thanks WACREN for this great drive.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 21 Jun 2016 1:10 pm, "Omo Oaiya" <<a href="mailto:Omo.Oaiya@wacren.net">Omo.Oaiya@wacren.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="quoted-text"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 21 Jun 2016, at 14:14, Mukom Akong T. <<a href="mailto:tamon@afrinic.net" target="_blank">tamon@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-family:CorisandeLight;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><b><br>Phase I:</b><span> </span>Now it makes sense to push our tertiary and research institutions to lead the IPv6 deployment campaign in our region.  Why? They are the perfect playground and research environment. A typical premier public university in our region has over 15000 students on the average. We need to have a program to at least select one from our region to guide and collaborate to deploy IPv6 campus wide, collect feedback and other metrics, rinse, revise, and replicate deployments region wide.</div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">If there’s a CTO from one of those universities willing to accept this challenge … get in touch with us and we’ll help you mount the project to get it done. </div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px">We’ve had a couple of false starts but are looking forward to some concrete stuff from WACREN</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><br></div></div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word">Indeed!  And from AfricaConnect2 which will provide v6 transit for connected NRENs and universities.   Interested parties are invited to visit the WACREN website and respond to the tender for regional links which is still open for another couple of weeks. <div><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br>—</div><font color="#888888"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Omo Oaiya<br></div></font></div></div></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><br><br></div>
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