The Managing Director, Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria
(IXPN) and Vice President, Nigeria
Internet Registration Association
(NIRA), Mr. Muhammed Rudman has called for the formation of a joint task force that will
ensure the deployment and utilization of
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPV6) across stakeholders, ITRealms
reports.
Rudman took this position on the 2nd day of
2015 DigitalSENSE Africa Media organized event titled: IPV6 and Broadband
Penetration, a Nigeria IPV6 Roundtable, in commemoration of the World IPV6 Day.
He
chronicled the events leading to the emergence of IPV6, while informing participants
that IPV6 which has about a zillion IP spaces was designed because the IP
spaces on the IPV4 which has 4.3 billion IP address spaces was about to be
exhausted and there was need to ensure that there is continuation of internet
usage globally.
He said
that Nigeria in particular and Africa in general, still have an abundant
unutilized IPV4 addresses and therefore are very hesitant to migrate to the
latest version of IP addresses. Consequently, he made an advocacy for a joint task force to ensure
that all core stakeholders
including internet service providers migrate to the IPV6, adding
that the latest technology comes with devices like security devices, high speed
and capacity which were lacking in its predecessor, ITRealms
gathered.
He stated that Nigeria will continue to lag behind if
there is no application of force especially from the regulatory body like the
Nigerian Communications Commission
(NCC), even though it does not assign addresses. Besides government he saud should
make sure that equipment supplied to it are IPV6 compliant, even as he informed
participants
which included industry stakeholders, students and the press, that the
International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is responsible for
allocating IP addresses, saying that South Africa has continued to maintain a
dominant position in the utilization of IP addresses in Africa with about 22
per cent of IPV6 addresses allocated to
it and Nigeria coming third from a distant 7th position on the IPV4 which, Rudman admitted,
was an indication of great improvement.
The Director, Public Affairs, NCC, Mr. Tony Ojobo, while
stating that the issue of migration from IPV4 to IPV6 is not a regulatory
matter, called for advocacy from stakeholders to enlighten and sensitize the core stakeholders to
migrate to the latest version, saying that IPV6 is faster and more improved
than IPV4.
Mrs. Nkem Nweke, the Executive Director, Operations,
DigitalSENSE Africa Media, publishers of DigitalSENSE Business News, ITRealms and NaijaAgroNet, the organizers of the
event, had earlier welcomed the guests while thanking Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA),
Microsoft Nigeria, Etisalat Nigeria Phase3, and other partners too numerous to mention,
for their immense supports, ITRealms
reports.
Cyriacus Nnaji/ GEE
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