Action Points : Meeting with Additional Secretary, MeitY

1. Open, Safe, Trusted & Accountable definition is not clear as per AS, Meity. CEO,
NIXI will discuss with stakeholders and define. Action: GM(BD)

Update : A stakeholder consultation to be organized involving MeitY officials, Legal

fraternity and civil society.  

Proposed audience - Shri Pavan Duggal, Shri T. Santhosh, Shri TVR, Dr. Jaijeet
Bhattacharya, CERT-IN Representative, Shri Anupam Agarwal and other.

2. Check with STPI regarding establishing incubation centers in the northeast. As both
are under Meity and there should not be any competition between the two entities.
Action : GM(BD)
STPI Incubation Centres (IC)
State No. of IC City
Arunachal Pradesh 0 -
Assam 1 Guwahati
Manipur 1 Imphal
Mizoram 1 Aizwal
Nagaland 1 Kohima
Sikkim 1 Gangtok
Tripura 2 Agartala Indranagar & Agartala Lichubagan

3. The organization that develops & designs websites should be influenced and motivated
for the promotion.IN domains. Action: Entire BD Group
Draft reply : The actions taken by NIXI in this regard :
a) NIXI ran a promo for the website developers 29 th May to 2nd June’22 and
witnessed a growth in new creates.
b) Empaneled 5 Website developers to promote .IN domains adoption by the end
users.

4. Target needs to be set for 1 lakh domains for .Bharat. Action :ccTLD/BD Group

Draft reply : NIXI along with Ministry of Culture is working to give digital identity to 6.5
L villages along with email id.
5. NIXI should check with ERNET about the IPv6 academy funded by e-infra so that
publicity must not be there. Action:
CEO/AM(IRINN)

Reply: As per communication with ERNET, IPv6 training funded by MeitY was
conducted on a per participant basis and since the fund get exhausted so no further
training was conducted by ERNET after 2016.

6.. We should not mention or talk about ITES, but our focus should only be Internet.
Action : CEO/Mktg.

7. Tutorial videos and FAQs to be included in IPv6 Expert Group to minimize the
queries. Action :
AM(IRINN)
Reply: FAQs is included in IPv6 Expert group and will be updated on monthly basis.
Tutorial and training videos are uploaded on NIXI academy portal.
www.training.nixi.in

8. .IN should reach in No.1 or No.2 in domain business. Action : BD/Mktg.

Reply : a) NIXI is meeting regularly with the Registrars through in person and virtual
meetings.
b) Regular promo plans are rolled out for Registrars.
c) A promo for non-active domains is introduced to popularize the usage of .in domains.

9. Advantages and disadvantages of not having a Root-Server in India. Action :M(R)

Reply : Technical Advantages of Root server

 Reduce the latency for local users.
 Improve the overall network performance
 Improved Resiliency.
 Establishing a RS cluster will significantly reduce the overall network congestion
and improve the stability of Internet.

10. Work out to connect/onboard more CDNs/ISPs with NIXI Action : GM(BD)

Reply : The following initiatives are taken :

 NIXI has 14 CDNs connected at its major nodes in Metros. Requesting them to start
peering at other nodes with substantial traffic.
 Requesting them to place their cache servers.
 NIXI is expanding its IX footprint in other Data centres in metro cities where CDNs are
already present.
 Appointed a CDN partner to onboard CDNs at different nodes.
  Direct outreach activity by NIXI and its Partners to all the CDNs.

11. How to save the vice chairmanship of GAC- what are the options, it should be linked
with the post and not with name Action: MeitY

12. How to reduce the legal cases, we should approach court to have alternative remedy
Action: CEO/LO

13. Aspirations should be there to become No 2 (.in) in next ten years, since Indian
population will cross China by that time Action: GM(BD)/Mktg.

BD Input : NIXI has taken it as a mission to be among the top 10 ccTLDs. Various
initiatives are taken :
a) A letter to Government both central and state government and the organizations under
them to adopt .IN domains.
b) An offer for MSMEs to adopt a digital identity including a domain and an email id
which will be offered free of cost by NIXI.
c) Regular promo for Registrars.
d) Digital Village – working with Ministry of culture to offer digital identity to 6.5 lakh
villages free of cost for first year.

14. A meeting may be arranged with META since they have approached Ministry for
IIGF Collaborations Action: CEO/GM(BD)
Draft input : META’s officials were part of various panels during IIGF2022.

15. Based on G-20 meetings, NIXI should educate people in cyber threats.
Action: M(R)
Draft input : Training through webinars on various topics pertaining to cyber security and
mitigation are conducted regularly. Refer Annexure A.

16. Course preparation and teachings for academic courses on internet governance
Action: CEO/MeitY