[AfrICANN-discuss] Management of African ccTLDs: Panne du .td?

[Nii Narku Quaynor]

Paulos,

Agreed. Best practices for ccTLD institutions include community for policy

Regards
Nii

On Sep 18, 2012, at 12:16, "Dr Paulos Nyirenda" <paulos at sdnp.org.mw> wrote:

> On 18 Sep 2012 at 10:55, nii quaynor wrote:
> 
>> Paulos,
>> 
>> The questions are very interesting however situations do change. 
> 
> Hopefully for the better but it happens that sometimes it is for the worse.
> 
>> Firstly, it seems there
>> was no institution responsible and therefore no institutional capacity in place. Perhaps
>> those running ns were the right chosen ones at a time but no more available. Although
>> these kinds of situations would be catered for by a 'substantial misbehavior' program I
>> think it argues more for institutionalizing ccTLD operations
> 
> I think it may be more important in a case like this to build the Internet community 
> behind the ccTLD.
> 
> If you institutionalise without a community then most likely there will be no one to 
> support the institution as seems to be the case here where no one has complained from 
> within Chad, nor does there appear to be anyone pushing the institutions SOTEL and OTRT 
> who appear to be at the heart of this.
> 
> We have even tried to send them a fax, even the listed numbers do not work.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paulos
> ======================
> Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
> NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
> http://www.registrar.mw
> 
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards
>> 
>> Nii
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>> 
>> From: "Dr Paulos Nyirenda" <paulos at sdnp.org.mw>
>> 
>> 
>> Date: September 18, 2012 10:23:09 AM GMT
>> 
>> 
>> To: africann at afrinic.net
>> 
>> 
>> Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Management of African ccTLDs: Panne du .td?
>> 
>> 
>> Reply-To: paulos at sdnp.org.mw, africann at afrinic.net
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> We got a report of this issue at .td at the AFTLD Annual Meeting in Livingstone,
>> Zambia
>> in July 2012 and many of us have attempted to get in touch with .td without much
>> success.
>> 
>> What may also be noted is that it seems that there have been not complaints or reports
>> from within Chad. It hence seems necessary to ask whether this is a problem for the
>> Internet community within Chad. Are there "significantly interested parties" in this
>> issue within Chad?
>> 
>> We have also tried to contact those that seem to have been running the secondary DNS
>> services, not much luck there either - no one replies to the addresses in the SOA,
>> even
>> from servers on .fr - so why were they chosen to run secondary DNS services?
>> 
>> The FOIWG of the ccNSO is discussing what may be interpretted as "substantial
>> misbehaviour" of a ccTLD manager and the conditions that must exist for them to be
>> interpretted as adequate for IANA intervention as stipulated in RFC1591. Are we there
>> yet
>> for this case?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Paulos
>> ======================
>> Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
>> NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
>> http://www.registrar.mw
>> 
>> 
>> On 18 Sep 2012 at 9:21, Adamou Nacer wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Hi Nigel,
>> 
>> Le 17/09/2012 17:03, Nigel Roberts a écrit :
>> 
>> I don't want to make this sound like a commercial (and there are
>> 
>> others - also inside Africa - who no doubt can offer to assist as
>> 
>> well) but just to mention we may be able to help any African ccTLDs
>> 
>> who maybe need additional resources -- from a simple secondary
>> 
>> nameserver right through to a complete backend registry.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Happy to be contacted at any time. Off list, probably, best.
>> 
>> In fact the problem is not only technical. I think they have support
>> 
>> from afnic. But you see, that isn't enough. I called a friend of mine
>> 
>> close to that file and he promised to introduce me to SOTEL and OTRT. I
>> 
>> will come back with more information on that issue as soon as possible.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Also, is this mailing list the right place to get assistance on this
>> 
>> kind of issue?
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
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