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India update

IPv6 World Congress, Feb 21 2006

Latif Ladid on behalf of IPv6 Forum India

Prepared by Hemanth Dattatreya,

Vice President, IPv6 Forum India

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Agenda• Regulatory & Policy• Government• Industry• Academia

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Hemanth D

VP IPv6 Forum

India

Minister  Maran Mr. Satyen Gupta, TRAI

           

  

INDIA Dr. Govind, MCITTen Point Agenda

Point 6 is IPv6 by 2006

May 2004

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Regulatory & Policy: TRAI• Active driver in aggregating public policy opinion on IPv6;

encouraged Ministry to pursue important IPv6 policy discussions and decisions

• Consultation Paper on Issues Relating to transition of IPv4 to IPv6 in India (Aug 2005)– http://www.trai.gov.in/conspaper26aug05.pdf

• Recommendations on Transition from IPv4 to IPv6 in India (Dec 2005) – http://www.trai.gov.in/recom9jan06.pdf

• Consultation Paper on 'Issues Pertaining to Next Generation Networks (NGN)'( Feb 2006) – http://www.trai.gov.in/cpaper12jan06.pdf

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Government: MCIT• Ten Point Agenda

Declared by Hon'ble Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Shri Dayanidhi Maran on 26.05.2004

– http://www.mit.gov.in/tenpointagenda.asp

• National Internet Registry of India (NIRI)

• Promotion of .in registry

• Detailed IPv6 Country Roadmap under preparation

• Under serious consideration– Mandating IPv6 in Union & State e-Governance projects– IPv6 in Indian Armed Forces (Ministry of Defence)

• A reinvigorated Inter-Agency IPv6 Implementation Group (IPIG): Members –

– DIT/MCIT, IDBRT, MoD/DRDO, National Security Council, ISP Assc of India, Cellular Operators Assc of India, IPv6 Forum India, IIT-Kanpur, BITS-Pilani

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Industry• Formation of IPv6 Forum India Technology Board (Jan 2006)

– Chaired by Sai Sree, Technology Head, Wipro Technologies– Reporting into the IPv6 Forum India BoD

• Active participation by the following Indian organisations– HP, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Infineon, Wipro, Infosys,

Celstream, Sify

• Indian Industry contributes to IPv6 outsourcing: Much of the outsourced IPv6 related work (stack development, writing apps etc) in North America / EU markets happen out of Indian IT locations (Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon/Noida). These include IT Services companies such as Wipro, Infosys, HCL and offshore centers of MNC vendors such as HP, Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft, Infineon, IBM, Sun Microsystems

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Industry• Samsung & Huawai have IPv6 R&D center in

Bangalore

• Sify released IPv6 ISP Service nationwide

• VSNL bought Teleglobe and therefore India has second largest IPv6 International ISP (2 to NTT-Com)

• • ASEAN Leadership Summit on IPv6 -

Bangalore - April 24-25, 2006

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Academia• ERNET IPv6 testbed• Participation of the following organisations in the

activities of IPv6 Forum India– Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur– BITS, Pilani– Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore– Educational & Research Network (ERNET), Delhi– Many South Indian Engineering Universities (student

projects and activities)