[AfrICANN-discuss] Breaking the Internet HOWTO: The Unintended Consequences of Governmental Actions

Eric M.K Osiakwan emko at internetresearch.com.gh
Tue Dec 20 17:53:18 SAST 2011


On 20 Dec 2011, at 12:52, Ntege Badru wrote:

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> You submission begs the question "should the internet conform or be conformed", i beg to differ.....
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> [Ntege Badru]
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> The internet cannot be conformed or controlled but the pipes can be conformed and controlled.  So the argument is not about the internet but the pipe that delivers it to your end point and what it should or not deliver. 
> Which begs the question, "what makes up the internet and by extension are the pipes part or not?"
> [Ntege Badru]
> Interesting is it chicken or egg issue.  Are the pipes not infrastructure ??  so we have infrastructure and content
Which begs the question is "infrastructure and content the internet?" 

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> So in the good old days of national gateways all this was possible but today with fully distributed and mirrored networks it has become more and more difficult.  So the whole issue of control to me becomes an academic exercise, a race between those who want to control and an internet which is always a few years ahead of the control freaks.  On the financial side, im afraid the issue of charging for the type of content is inevitable as long as we live in a capitalist economy which we all dearly love until we have to pay for something we do not want to pay for.
> .....hmm, i would rather go with the school of thought that we should rather figure out "a better way or who and how" to pay for the infrastructure that carries the content.
> [Ntege Badru]  good and noble notion but unfortunately will not work since it needs loads of cash which will always come with a price.
.....the last time i checked, thats how it is being funded, no?

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> Thus my view that neutrality as a concept is unsustainable.
> Am indifferent.
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> badru
> Eric here
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> [Ntege Badru]  
Eric here

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: africann-bounces at afrinic.net [mailto:africann-bounces at afrinic.net]
> On Behalf Of Nacer Adamou Saidou
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 12:45 PM
> To: africann at afrinic.net
> Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Breaking the Internet HOWTO: The
> Unintended Consequences of Governmental Actions
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> This was my question: what are we doing/considering to do to ensure
> Internet neutrality.
> These are not the exact words I used as I cannot remember exactly how I
> stated the question, but that was the idea.
> I received only one answer from Mr NII NARKU QUAYNOR who was one of
> the panelist. As far as I undestood him, his answer was barely this: this
> is not
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> really an issue.
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> Regards
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> Le 20/12/2011 09:26, SM a écrit :
> At 23:49 19-12-2011, Nacer Adamou Saidou wrote:
> I tried to open a breach on this during the Afrinic-15 meeting when
> asking about the Internet Neutrality issue, but there was no real
> interest on this I guessed.
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> What was the question you asked?
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