Re: [alac] Africa Position Marrakech

[Annette Muehlberg <annette.muehlberg@xxxxxx>]

Thank you, Pierre, for this important advice.

All,
up to now, ICANN folks travel around the world from meeting to meeting, 
but it is not really clear what this hopping from region to region is 
actually good for.

I would like to make real use of the regional presence by focusing in 
each meeting on some regional issues - within an ALAC workshop and in 
the Public Forum.

So, Pierre and others, keeping the list of issues below in mind, could 
you think of a list of demands we should present to the public and are 
worth discussing within a workshop (either as one part of a more general 
workshop or one specific workshop only on africa specific issues)?

How important is the IDN issue in Africa? Examples, studies?

And who is going to take care of the financing of local ALSes to come? 
Do we get another funding?

Best
Annette



Pierre Dandjinou wrote:

> 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. 
> > >      
> >
> >    
>
>
>