RE: Comments ......

[Rob Gipman <gipmanr@mtn.co.ug>]

I agree James,

Besides if we already start to find only the cheapest option then Uganda
will still be a long way from being part of the internet community. Costs
have to be made by all isp's and believe me it will benefit you all in the
future. Don't forget that your internet pipe will not grow that fast in the
IXP setup thus lesser expense and additional services can be offered to
where customers can subscribe and pay money for.

-----Original Message-----
From: Lunghabo James [mailto:lunghabo@afsat.com]
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 2:34 PM
To: techies@uixp.co.ug
Subject: Comments ......




Seems I have to develop a habit of checking mail :---)

Anyway I am just jumping into the deep end of the discussion by asking:

1. Why should we start off with the Randy kind of set up ?
2. If we are truly going to benefit from support offered by Cisco,
dont you all think that we could as well go in for the proposal 
#2 (refer to last meeting) ?
3. Since the routers to be bought by ISP's are the same in either 
scenario and from the best of my knowledge Cisco is willing to give 
us the Central router, dont you think that we are better off going 
ahead with such a setup now other than wait ?

I have not yet really seen any technical draw back regarding Randy's 
approach or the #2 approach we suggested in the meeting, apart from 
the fact that it Randy's is abit more basic and simpler in approach 
(especially financially).

Unless otherwise I beg to listen to other ideas.

Lunghabo 




At Monday, 30 April 2001, you wrote:

>I would imagine that the other services like wen dns can be on
>another router also connected to the IXP and as well any other NGOs
>interested can also put a router in place and host their services 
there.
>The individual ISPs can then decide whether they want to peer with 
them.
>They would thus be in effect taken like any other provider. Other 
services
>required like say ntp dns can also be put on a router connected to the
>switch.
> I remember that Barry's white paper and its problems was discussed on
>afnog ) http://www.aafnog.org) some months ago ( http://www.uol.
co.ug/afnog-
>archives)
>and according to some people many folks in the first world laughed
>at it except the colonialists of course. Also note that it is by
>cisco and it sells more routers as a result.
>regards,
>Sematimba Noah
>ksemat@eahd.or.ug
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Lunghabo Wire James

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