[AfrICANN-discuss] Re: ? - online place to follow the live ICANN meeting

[Dr Paulos Nyirenda]

Gabi,

Just to indicate that I was able to follow the ccNSO Council meeting 
quite well on the conference call today and the quality of the 
connection was acceptable. Thanks for the effort to have the 
connection made.

Paulos
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Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
.mw ccTLD
http://www.registrar.mw


On 13 Feb 2008 at 10:45, Dr Paulos Nyirenda wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> On 13 Feb 2008 at 8:27, Gabriella Schittek wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Paulos,
> > 
> > I asked Steve Conte, who is responsible for the technical matters during
> > meetings to explain why these problems occurred. See below.
> > 
> > Gabi  
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Conte [mailto:steve.conte at icann.org] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 8:15 AM
> > To: gabriella.schittek at icann.org
> > Subject: Re: [ccnso-council] Re: ? - online place to follow the live ICANN
> > meeting
> > 
> > Hi Gabriella,
> > 
> > Thanks for giving me a chance to respond to this.
> > 
> > We have been faced with many challenges here.
> > 
> > The week before the meeting there were a total of five undersea fibre  
> > cuts in the asia/pacific region.  Because of this, a lot of the  
> > traffic of the region has been aggregated and is all traveling through  
> > the remaining fibre paths (all at capacity at the moment).  As the  
> > fibres are replaced, it will certainly impact the region (in a  
> > positive way!) but unlike when your computer crashes at home,  
> > deploying the "tech support" to a cut undersea fibre can take up to a  
> > week to arrive at the destination.
> > 
> > We've run into some hurdles with the local transit as well in the way  
> > of trying to get them to sort out our AS number and properly announce  
> > (and transit) our traffic.
> > 
> > We  have also had a challenge with stable power in the hotel.  There  
> > have been a number of power outages (either partial or full) and blown  
> > circuits.  Some of these have directly impacted the ability to feed  
> > power to the routers we are using to egress the hotel.  Though we have  
> > UPS (uninterruptible power supplies), we've found a number of them  
> > have been mis-wired ore plugged into the hotel UPS, which can cause a  
> > "blowback" and cut the power.
> > 
> > Although service has not been stable, the team that is here locally  
> > has done an amazing job of adapting to each new challenge and  
> > providing a solution in the most timely fashion that they were able to.
> > 
> > I do apologize for any inconvenience your council has experienced  
> > (both local and remote).  I assure you we are doing everything within  
> > our power to try to keep the services running so that the meetings can  
> > be effective.
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-ccnso-council at icann.org [mailto:owner-ccnso-council at icann.org 
> > > ]
> > > On Behalf Of Dr Paulos Nyirenda
> > > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:41 AM
> > > To: Pierre Ouedraogo; africann at afrinic.net
> > > Cc: ccnso-council at icann.org
> > > Subject: [ccnso-council] Re: ? - online place to follow the live ICANN
> > > meeting
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > All,
> > >
> > > I think the quality of the ICANN meeting webcast from New Delhi has
> > > been poor, many of the webacst links do not work and when they work
> > > quality is poor in both audio and video.
> > >
> > > We have a great opportunity this week of compairing this ICANN
> > > meeting webcast with the live webcast for the NASA Atlantis space
> > > shuttle launch and flight that you can view, with alternatives, at
> > > http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
> > >
> > > The poor webcasting service hurts participation. This is further
> > > complicated by the significant difficulties being faced this week to
> > > use teleconferencing services for this meeting as well.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Paulos
> > > ======================
> > > Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
> > > .mw ccTLD
> > > http://www.registrar.mw
> > >