IPv6 Activities

NIXI has taken up a number of steps to encourage IPv6 activities in the country. These include:

• Since IPv4 addresses are exhausting, IRINN team continually encourage their affiliates to make their network dual stack and move to IPv6 technologies. IRINN can provide ample IPv6 addresses to Affiliates and help them maintain scalable Internet for everyone and IRINN policy is drafted accordingly in which Minimum delegation size for IPv6 address is /32 for ISP & /48 for Corporate Affiliates.

• NIXI has setup dual stack routers at IX locations Mumbai,Delhi(Noida), Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Guwahati.

• IPv6 security, Internet resource management(IRM) and Internet Routing Registry(IRR) training organised by NIXI, ISOC Kolkata and APNIC at Kolkata (30-31 July, 2012).

• IPv6 Workshop organised by NIXI and APNIC at Mumbai (25-27 July, 2012).

• IPv6 & Internet resource management essentials (IRME)training organised by NIXI, STPI and APNIC at Bangalore(4-6 November,2011).

• IPv6 & Internet resource management essentials (IRME training organised by NIXI, ISOC Chennai and APNIC at Chennai (July, 2011).

• Making NIXI website(www.nixi.in) IPv6 compatible (2011).

• IPv6 & Internet resource management essentials (IRME) training organised by NIXI, ISOC Kolkata and APNIC at Kolkata (1-3 June, 2010).

• IPv6 & IRME training organised by NIXI, ISPAI and APNIC in Bangalore (23-25 March, 2009) and Hyderabad (26-28 March, 2009).

  IPv6 Hands-on Workshop - Bangalore Details
  IPv6 Hands-on Workshop - Hyderabad Details

• Awareness seminar on IPv6 road ahead with APNIC held in Delhi (12 September, 2008) and Mumbai (10 September, 2008).

  Awareness Seminar on IPv6 (“Road Ahead”) - Delhi Details
  Awareness Seminar on IPv6 (“Road Ahead”) - Mumbai Details

• Setting up parallel IPv6 Exchange Routers in Mumbai and Delhi Exchange points (2008)

• Hands-on training on IPv6 configuration, in association with APNIC. Two training workshops have been held, in Delhi (22-25 April, 2008) and Mumbai (9-11 June, 2008).

  IPv6 Hands-on Workshop - Delhi Details
  IPv6 Hands-on Workshop - Mumbai Details

• NIXI has sponsored free of cost training program to 115 engineers across the country for IPV6 online training which include virtual labs for hands on training in association with NIIT (2008).