Providers discussed current business issues at the 2nd annual Telecom Innovation Forum 2011

The 2nd annual Telecom Innovation Forum 2011 “Innovations for the business of service providers and telecom operators” was held in Kyiv.

The event was attended by over 200 executives from telecommunications companies, including the largest telecom operators and providers, as well as representatives of the small and medium telecom segment.

Svetlana Tkachenko, Head of Research and Development, and Dmitry Kokhmanyuk, .UA domain administrator from Hostmaster, spoke at the conference, discussing the current state and future developments of the domain market. Their presentations highlighted the need to reorganize the .UA domain space to define and contractually formalize the rights and obligations of public domain administrators, registrars, and registrants in line with international practice.

Serhiy Polischuk, technical administrator at UA-IX, discussed the situation with IPv6. He noted that the technological readiness of Ukrainian specialists to implement IPv6 addresses is a significant challenge, despite the fact that equipment from the vast majority of global manufacturers has supported the IPv6 standard for some time.