[AfrICANN-discuss] Internet regulation at national level?

Thu Nov 1 09:17:50 SAST 2012

And Ben is too modest, we have really serious experience in our Registry
in this particular regards.

el

on 2012-11-01 08:31 Ben Fuller said the following:
> I think that as a matter of simple professionalism, anyone who is a
> custodian of data that might be on a WHOIS will ensure the correct and
> accurate information exists.
> 
> Why the need to have webinars and proposals, and all that gibberish?
> If the data base needs to be improved, start improving it. The sooner
> you begin the sooner it is completed.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Y Mshana2003 <ymshana2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Me too... Count me in:-)
>> can it be after 1700hrs West African time please?
>> Cheers
>> Yassin
>>
>>
>> From Yassin . Sent from samsung mobile. On O2.
>>
>>
>>
>> Pierre Lotis NANKEP <lnankep at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Adiel,
>>
>> Thanks for your input.
>> Regarding the webinar, I am ready. Count me amongst the participants.
>>
>> Best Regards.
>>
>> --
>> Pierre Lotis NANKEP
>> IT Engineer / ANTIC
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>> Email (Pro) : pierre.nankep at antic.cm
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>>
>> ________________________________
>> De : Adiel Akplogan <adiel at afrinic.net>
>> À : africann at afrinic.net
>> Envoyé le : Mercredi 31 octobre 2012 9h14
>> Objet : Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet regulation at national level?
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> First of all I think the discussion is getting real and start touching
>> on some fundamental questions that we need to address in our region and
>> which are the bottom-line for what we all seems to be looking for:
>> Internet (and maybe more generally ICT) development in Africa for a
>> sustainable socio-economical impact.
>>
>> In the mean time I have spot on an important issue raised several time
>> in recent posts, which I would like us to get specific about and try
>> to, in one hand understand the issue and in other hand look at way to
>> address them efficiently. It is about IP address **regulation**.
>>
>> On 2012-10-31, at 09:48 AM, Pierre Lotis NANKEP <lnankep at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>>
>> I also heard that we should regulate IP numbers and domain names at
>>
>> national level. Well and good but how could this be done when IPs are
>>
>> administered globally(iana/nro) and regionally through afrinic?
>>
>>
>>>> Please let us organise a Webinar on this topic... So some will
>>
>>>> have the opportunity to make some présentation in details.
>>
>>
>> Just before going further on this, AfriNIC has initiated a Government
>> Working Group open to Government Reps and Regulators with the goal to
>> proactively create a framework for discussion and dialogue at that level
>> on IP address and related issues. The working groups also have a mailing
>> list afgwg-discuss at afrinic.net and several countries have already
>> appointed liaison to that working group (http://meeting.afrinic.net/afgwg).
>> You can also use that forum to have this discussion with a wider Africa
>> regulators/governments audience.
>>
>> Coming back to the point, Pierre N. and others on the list who have
>> expressed concern in that area, can you be a bit more specify? Pierre has
>> mentioned WHOIS services and data accuracy that need to be regulated.
>> Putting aside the scary word "regulation" here, I will agree that WHOIS
>> related issues are important to look at in our region. So in order to
>> move the discussion forward, what are the "regulation" measures that you
>> think government should take to solve the problem of accuracy? What are
>> regulators doing right now to encourage Network Operator in their
>> respective jurisdiction to properly register and update their IP addresses
>> usage in the public WHOIS database already provided by AFRINIC? Can that
>> already be a starting point?
>>
>> In April this year we have received a Policy proposal "AfriNIC Whois
>> Database Clean-up" AFPUB-2012-GEN-001-DRAFT-01 (still under discussion)
>> which, if approved by the community, will trigger a process to cleanup
>> our IP address WHOIS database. That proposal in fact reinforced the fact
>> that the issue of WHOIS data accuracy is also of concern for operators
>> as well. How are regulators contributing to the debate and the elaboration
>> of such a policy? How can this be efficiently translated into the local
>> framework without creating unnecessary additional layer of bureaucracy
>> and/or complexity? Simply put, what is your take on the policy proposal?
>>
>> I would encourage you and anyone interested to contribute to the
>> discussion that is happening on that specific policy for instance by
>> joining AFRINC RPD mailing list at rpd at afrinic.net]. More about our
>> open Policy development Process can be found at:
>>
>> http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development
>>
>> Finally I would like to take on your suggestion to have a webminar session
>> on the topic. AFRINIC will be happy to provide the logistic for it. But in
>> order to plan it well, we will need to know how many people are interested
>> first.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> - a.
>>
>>
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