DoT wants control over India's internet registry

Over three years after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) issued its recommendation on transition to the next generation internet protocol in India (from IPv4 to IPv6), the Department of Telecom (DoT) has said that a National Internet Registry (NIR) should be set up under its own purview for the purpose.

Trai had in its recommendation of January 2006 said NIXI (National Internet Exchange of India) could perform the role of the national registry for enabling the transition to the next-gen protocol. But the government in a recent communication struck the proposal down.
DoT said NIXI has commercial contracts with internet service providers for providing exchange of internet traffic, and does not satisfy the criterion for NIR set by the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC). Australia-based APNIC is responsible for IPv6 resource allocation in the region.

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Jeff said:

Thanks! Looks like a power play of some sort, but I really have no clue what the practical implications are...

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