[AfrICANN-discuss] Internet regulation at national level?

Fri Nov 2 08:35:28 SAST 2012

It's always good to know where we come from.
Here is the way we followed to get at this idea of organizing a Webminar:
- step 1 : Debate on "The ICANN Africa Strategy" Is Not the Same as the 'African Agenda" (introduce by Gideon)
- Step 2 : New subject "Let's be proactive" base on the previous debate (introduce by Pierre D.)
   2.1 ICT Policy (introduce by Yassin)
   2.2. Internet Regulation (introduce by Pierre N.)
- Step 3 : New subject "Internet regulation at national level?" base on the compilation on the above outcome (introduce by Nii)
   3.1 Here come the idea of a webinar (introduce by Pierre N.)
   3.2 Support by AfriNICto organise that webinar (introduce by Adiel)

Dear Badru, that is a brief summary of our discussions.
Your question "Out of curiosity what is the Agenda for this webinar ??" : We are all invited to contribute to the development of the Agenda. 

Today, another subject was proposed by Nii : "African Governments, Internet and Governance". And then it starts to get embarrassing. Why not stay focused on a topic until a specific result?

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> De : Badru Ntege <badru.ntege at nftconsult.com>
>À : "africann at afrinic.net" <africann at afrinic.net> 
>Envoyé le : Jeudi 1 novembre 2012 8h00
>Objet : RE: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet regulation at national level?
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>Out of curiosity what is the Agenda for this webinar ??
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>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,
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>Thanks for your input.
>Regarding the webinar, I am ready. Count me amongst the participants.
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>Best Regards.
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>>________________________________
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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?
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>>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:
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>>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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