The Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) has inaugurated three path-breaking initiatives for the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI).

What is NIXI?

National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) is a not-for-profit organization (section 8 of the Companies Act 2013) working since 2003 for spreading the internet infrastructure to the citizens of India through the following activities:

1. Internet Exchanges through which the internet data is exchanged amongst ISP’s, Data Centers and CDNs.
2. .IN Registry, managing and operation of .IN country-code domain and .भारत IDN domain for India.
3. IRINN, managing and operating Internet protocol (IPv4/IPv6).

Which are the three new initiatives?

(1) IPv6 Expert Panel (IP Guru) (https://nixi.in):

• IP Guru is a group to extend support to all the Indian entities who are finding it technically challenging to migrate and adopt IPv6.
• In addition to this, the IPv6 expert group will help in identifying & hiring an agency that will help end customer by providing necessary technical support to adopt IPv6.
• This panel will guide all such Indian entities and help in increasing IPv6 adoption.

Note: An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication. An IP address serves two main functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing.

(2) NIXI Academy (https://training.nixi.in):

• NIXI Academy is created to educate technical/non-technical people in India to learn and relearn technologies like IPv6 which are normally not taught in Educational Institutes.
• NIXI academy comprises an IPv6 training portal which is developed with the help of various technical experts in order to provide mass training to the community.
• The easy-to-use platform helps network operators and educators understand networking best practices, principles and techniques; manage Internet resources better; and use appropriate Internet technologies more effectively.

(3) NIXI-IP-INDEX (https://ipv6.nixi.in):

• NIXI has developed an IPv6 index portal for the Internet community.
• NIXI-IP-INDEX portal will showcase the IPv6 adoption rate in India and across the world.
• It can be used to compare the IPv6 Indian adoption rate with other economies in the world.
• NIXI will populate this portal with web adoption in IPv6, IPv6 traffic etc. in the coming days.
• This portal will motivate organisations to adopt IPv6, provide inputs for planning by technical organisations and research by academicians.

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