The IPv6
Council Nigeria has inaugurated its Communications and Advocacy Committee (CAC)
as part of efforts to ensure that Nigerian networks migrate to the Internet
protocol at good time. IPv6 is Internet Protocol version 6.
Muhammed
Rudman, Chairman, IPv6 Council Nigeria, while inaugurating the committee
decried the low level of IPv6 ready networks as well as usage in Nigeria even
as the country occupies first and seventh positions in Internet usage in Africa
and the world respectively.
“We
don’t want Nigeria to be left behind in the migration to IPv6, this is why we
need to step up the awareness and advocacy campaign to ensure that ISPs,
telecommunications operators, Banks, educational institutions among others
migrate to IPv6,” he said.
Rudman
however, attributed the low level of uptake of IPv6 in the country to lack of
technical know-how, core equipment compatibility issues, lack of IPv6 upstream
service providers in the country and non-requests from end users among others,
adding that for the use of IPv6 to grow in the
country, there should be IPv6
awareness and capacity building through seminars and trainings, as well as incorporating
IPv6 into university curriculum.
He
stressed the need to provide some profit incentives to Internet Industry to
encourage them to adopt IPv6 based Infrastructure. “These incentives could
include reduction in regulatory fee and tax rebates”.
Remmy
Nweke, chairman, Communications and Advocacy Committee of the Council, said
that some Nigerians are very tired of hearing the country leapfrogging to
catch up with the rest of the world, even in Africa, following the clear
depletion of IPv4, which makes advocacy pertinent.
“When
the IPv6 Council Nigeria was given birth to after series of discussions,
especially with the global IPv6 Forum led by a longtime friend, Mr. Latif
Ladid, I had no doubt we are making progress but slowly. For those who have
seen to this day, I must say it’s a new dawn, especially those of us coming
from the communication and advocacy background to up our games and wear our
IPv6 swimming suits by way of embracing the 21st century IP concept, which
is IPv6 so as to learn and impact our generation as we move along,” he said.
He
gave assurance that the committee will do everything possible to promote
Internet Protocol version Six (IPv6) in Nigeria and in the sub region as well
as the continent and world at large.
Other
members of the committee include, Bayero Agabi, Chike Onwuegbuchi, Nahimah Ajikanle
Nurudeen and Martin Ekpeke.
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