India is getting ready for IPv6
India’s Department of Telecom will set up a National Internet Registry to create more web addresses as the country’s existing resources will run out of capacity in one year.
Initailly, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) had recommended NIXI (National Internet Exchange of India), a public-private partnership body, to perform the role of the national registry for enabling the transition to the next-gen protocol but since NIXI has commercial contracts with Indian ISP for providing exchange of internet traffic, and it does not satisfy the criterion for NIR set by the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC).Australia-based APNIC is responsible for IPv6 resource allocation in the region.
Striking down regulator TRAI’s above proposal, DoT said today that
the registry involves licensing issues from APNIC and only the department is empowered to set up such a body.
From long time, India Inc. was expecting such move from Department of Telecom.
All existing IPv4 addresses will run out by April 2010 because of the sheer volume growth.
Currently, India has around 6.22 million broadband subscribers in the country and the government has targeted 20 million in the year 2010.
IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol that can supports a total of 16 billion (2128) IP addresses compared to 4 billion addresses (232).
(Via The Hindu)
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