RE: [alac] Africa Position Marrakech

[Pierre Dandjinou <dandjinou.pierre@xxxxxxxx>]

Annette and all,

Some of the issues that are specific to the African community would include
the following :

- The high entry cost for operating registries. (50 k i believe) makes it
difficult for African operators to be fully part of the industry; thus, only
recently did an african operator (from South Africa) managed to obtain an
accreditation from Icann.
- Management of cctlds : most african users do not have the appropriate
informations as to the development of these and most NIC are not
transparently managed.
- Dispute resolution /redelegation as relates to the domain names

Agree with your point on having a few African ALSes in Marraketch. In the
past, we were able to bring a few of them (in tunis I think) thanks to a
funding from Infodev.

Regards to all and congrats for the good job done in Wellington.
Pierre


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-alac@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Annette Muehlberg
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 2:09 PM
To: alice@xxxxxxx
Cc: ALAC
Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Marrakech

Would be good to know, if we could address some specific issues and 
interests by the african community on ICANN issues in Marrakech meeting. 
Proposals?

Also, it would be nice if at least some member of african ALSes could 
join us there and give inputs in advance.

Annette

alice@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Would be interesting to know what mistakes  made in North America in 
> 1960s and how they were addressed. The desire by AfrISPA is not just 
> more bandwidth but use-value for internet, relevant content addresses 
> the use-value of the internet as illustrated in the paper
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John L" <johnl@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <shahshah@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <alice@xxxxxxx>; "ALAC" <alac@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 5:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [alac] Africa Position Paper on Internet growth through 
> content
>
>
>>> Well it isn't so clear that a statistical study was done. This seems 
>>> to be
>>> a call by African ISPs for what they consider important. They may be
>>> advocating more use of Internet for educating and informing, or a 
>>> call for
>>> 'content' may just mean a desire for more 'bandwidth'. Further, 
>>> because so
>>> much of email is web-based, it is hard to differentiate.
>>
>>
>> I can't tell from the report what they consider important either.
>>
>> I just hope they're not repeating the mistakes we made here in North 
>> America in the 1990s.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for 
>> Dummies",
>> Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Mayor
>> "I dropped the toothpaste", said Tom, crestfallenly. 
>
>
>