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Day Two- role of stakeholders in ccTLD management in Africa
 
9:16
wanjiku -  Welcome to day two
8:45
Dawit Bekele from Ethiopia is talking about the multi-stakeholder model in the management of ccTLDs
8:49
The domain is a national resource interesting to regulators and stakeholders
9:22
wanjiku -  Vincent Ngundi
admin manager of KENIC
KENIC has been manager since 2002 when ICANN redelegated the domain

objectives

manage and operate .ke ccTLD
Promote use of .ke
Support ICT4D
represent local community in local and international fora
build DNS capacity in Kenya
Internship, regiustrar training, public forums

9:26
wanjiku -  Will send Vincent's presentation.....lost my posts when the internet went down....
sorry for that
9:28
wanjiku -  Presentation by Adiel Akplogan CEO of AfriNIC
9:32
wanjiku -  Talking about exhaustion of IPv4 and adoption of IPv6
9:36
wanjiku -  AfriNIC is the org that allocates IP addresses as a number resource

9:41
wanjiku -  Domains facilitate comm for end users because we are more at ease using names and not numbers
9:41
wanjiku -  There is the Name resource e.g the ccTLD
9:55
wanjiku -  ARIN, LACNIC, RIPENCC, APNIC and AfriNIC are the five registries in the world; AfriNIC is the youngest
Allocation is on regional basis and basid on the IP blocks

10:03
wanjiku -  The registries are in charge of managing the IPs in their region
IANA manages/ allocates the entire pool of number resources
We use the same process as ISPs, we follow a criteria set by IANA because IPs are limited resources that must be allocated in a responsible way
AfriNIC has IP analysts
16 million IP addreses- managed by AfriNIC
AfriNIC is managing two IPv6 address blocks

All the different registries have different blocks

AfriNIC policies are defined by the community through an open and transparent process.

policies under discussion
IPv4 soft landing policy
IPv6 allocations to non profit networks

2009 budget- US$ 1.7 million

From 2012, the pool of IPv4 will be exhausted
10:03
wanjiku -  Ndukwe Kalu
President Nira
NCC created a license class for management of .ng


10:04
wanjiku -  Obasanjo had to intervene in the redelegation of .ng and asked for the domain to be handed from an individual to an institution
10:05
wanjiku -  People felt neglected, representation was an issue; who controls the domain
govt was bothered about its authority
10:06
wanjiku -  there were various levels advise given; like setting up several registries
12:10
wanjiku -  Adiel speaking about Domain Name Security
12:11
wanjiku -  Avoids replacement between the server and the client
12:13
wanjiku -  @ McTim, I will fwd your question to one of the panelists from yesterday and give you an answer
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