[AfrICANN-discuss] Internet regulation at national level?

[Ben Fuller Gmail]

These are very relevant questions. Or, does one just have a webinar because one has a free afternoon? 

Has anyone been paying attention to the WHOIS accuracy discussions at ICANN?

Ben

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On Nov 1, 2012, at 9:00, Badru Ntege <badru.ntege at nftconsult.com> wrote:

> Out of curiosity what is the Agenda for this webinar ??
>  
> And what would be the end in mind.  What exactly do we want to achieve ???
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> From: africann-bounces at afrinic.net [mailto:africann-bounces at afrinic.net] On Behalf Of adamou s. nacer
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 9:29 AM
> To: africann at afrinic.net
> Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet regulation at national level?
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> I am interested too.
> Regards
> 
> On 31 October 2012 21:25, Y Mshana2003 <ymshana2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Me too... Count me in:-)
> can it be after 1700hrs West African time please? 
> Cheers
> Yassin
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> From Yassin . Sent from samsung mobile. On O2.
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> Pierre Lotis NANKEP <lnankep at yahoo.fr> wrote:
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> 
> Adiel,
> 
> Thanks for your input.
> Regarding the webinar, I am ready. Count me amongst the participants.
>  
> Best Regards.
>  
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> Pierre Lotis NANKEP
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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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