NIRA’s view on IPV6

Muhammed Rudmanm.rudman@ixp.net.ngwww.nira.org.ng

NIRA’s view on IPV6

About NIRA

NIRA

NIRA is the registry for .ng Internet Domain Names and maintains the database of names registered in the .ng country code Top Level Domain.

NIRA is an independent not-for-profit organizations that manages the .ng country code Top Level Domain(ccTLD) name space in the public interest of Nigeria and global internet communities.

NIRA is not a governing or regulatory body, but are managers of the .ng national resource.

For additional information – www.nira.org.ng

NIRA Structure

General Assembly 9 BOT 9 Executive Board 7 Permanent Staff Committees

Technical Auction & Policy Communication &Publicity Establishment Accreditation & Evaluation

NIRA is a Not-For-Profit , Multi- stakeholder, Membership based Organization.

Secondary Name Servers for .ng ns1.nic.net.ng 194.0.1.29 I

2001:678:4:0:0:0:0:1d

Internet Computer Bureau-

Anycast in Lagos ns2.nic.net.ng 204.61.216.40

WoodyNet (PCH) ns3.nic.net.ng 208.78.70.93

Dynamic Network Services ns4.nic.net.ng 204.13.250.93

Dynamic Network Services nsa.nic.net.ng 41.222.79.3

Nigeria

NIRA

Towards IPv6

NIRA

NIRA is not an Local Internet Registry (LIR)- Do not assign IP address to its customers.

NIRA has already applied for IPv6 address block from AfriNIC.

One of the secondary DNS on IPv6 which has a local Anycast.

Working towards IPv6 awareness campaign to all the registrars, so that Nigerian sites can be reachable via IPv6.

Challenges: No IPv6 Enabled Networks in Nigeria

NIRA

Good News:Moved from the 6th position in 2009 to the 3rd in 2010 based on the number of allocated IPv6 within AfriNIC region.

Bad New:Not yet visible in the Internet

http://v6asns.ripe.net/v/6?s=ZA;s=KE;s=NG;s=MU;s=EG

Reasons why ISPs are not implementing IPv6 in Nigeria

NIRA

ISPs need a business case

Lack of technical know how

Core equipment compatibility issues Lack of IPv6 upstream service providers-

Non requests from end users

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