Let the ideas and contributions coming...

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Hello all, Firstly, a formal meeting announcement: Event: ILUG-Delhi meeting Date: Fri., May 9th Time: 6.30pm Agenda: o Brainstorming for working with NIXI. Please see details below. Participants: All on this list. Venue: BB/3G, DDA flats, Munirka. Contact: Me (9868527992)

We had an interesting meeting today with some people from NIXI, the National Internet Exchange of India, which is now set up as a not-for-profit company. Briefly, NIXI wishes to play the role of a bridge between industry, government, and the FOSS community, and has certain advantages over normal government agencies when it comes to funding projects in this area.

Here are some ideas mooted from their side. Please note that these are open to people from anywhere in India, and they would like to see country-wide participation: 1. Preparing for roll-out of internationalised top-level domain names, i.e., web URLs entirely in Indian languages. ICANN should be approving this in some 6 months time, so NIXI wants people to participate in an experimental setup on a private (to India) network which can go public on the Internet on ICANN approval. This work would include the preparation of a write-up on potential issues involving canonical representations for Unicode names, phishing and other security loopholes, etc. Sarai might be hosting an informal seminar to introduce this topic, in a week or two. 2. ipv6 roll-out: NIXI would like to have a parallel ipv6 network in 1-2 months time. They have already done training and awareness sessions for ipv6 routing, but largely using proprietary tools. They would like community folk to hold training sessions for (a) MCA-level students, and (b) technical folk in small/medium enterprises, universities, or other institutions. 3. Software for, and management of .in domain name registry: Currently, they use proprietary software, and databases, and would like to switch to open-source alternatives.