[governance] Fw: [india-gii] Fwd: [PRC] [X-Post] Interaction with Nixi: Planning meeting Fri., 9

Thu May 8 01:38:51 EDT 2008

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From: Sandip Bhattacharya <lists at sandipb.net>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 09:58:16 +0530
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Subject: [india-gii] Fwd: [PRC] [X-Post] Interaction with Nixi: Planning
	meeting Fri., 9
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(Didn't see this here. For those who are interested - Sandip)

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  From: Gora Mohanty gora at sarai.net
  Date: Wed May 7 23:53:51 IST 2008

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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.
4. Community participation in the Internet Governance Forum
    (IGF) meeting to be held in Hyderabad from 3-6 Dec., 2008:
    http://www.intgovforum.org/ NIXI wants the community to be
    there, as this is supposed to be a meeting for public
    comment, and I think that it is important that we take
    part. In particular, names are being solicited for
    be part of the advisory group, and the deadline for that
    is May 21st. For more on the IGF, please see
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Governance_Forum
5. Of particular interest to IndLinux is that NIXI is willing
    to (a) fund localisation work carried out by distributed
    community groups in the country, (b) fund projects aimed
    at polishing open-source Indian language tools, and deploying
    them, e.g., making sure that OpenOffice, and Mozilla
    Indian language packs get built, and distributed, and
    (c) provide bandwidth, and hosting to such open-source
    projects.
6. Deployment of Indian language, and other open-source
    software developed in India, and/or targeted at an Indian
    population. Their examples were Hindawi, Dhvani, etc.
    The goal here would be to (a) put together software that
    demonstrates the use, and (b) convince people using
    proprietary alternatives to switch.
7. Survey of sites in the .in domain: Someone to carry out
    a study of .in sites (which are currently some 4.5 lakh
    in number), categorise them, and give awards to the best
    sites in various categories, e.g., best Hindi/Indian
    language blogging site, best open-source site, etc.
8. Rework syllabi at elementary, and middle school levels
    to replace references to proprietary applications with
    generic teaching, and/or references to open-source
    alternatives.
9. Bring your own ideas: NIXI is also very interested in
    hearing about your ideas for possible open-source
    projects. Please feel free to contact us at Sarai,
    or to directly get in touch with Mr. Rajesh Aggarwal,
    IAS, Additional CEO, NIXI, or Mr. Ajay Tripathi,
    Technical Officer, NIXI. (Their email addresses are
    in the list of recipients.)

Regards,
Gora

-- 
Sandip Bhattacharya
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