[AfrICANN-discuss] Ref: Kenya rejects bid to punish States for internet shutdown

[Arnaud AMELINA]

Well Said Big Boss, +1

Regards

Arnaud

2017-05-01 6:48 GMT+00:00 Badru Ntege <badru.ntege at nftconsult.com>:

>
> Unintended consequences of the Bottom up process, anyone can come up with
> an idea as baseless as it may be it goes through the peer review process,
> which hopefully will be rejected by the community since it does not make
> sense.
>
> The problem is while it has life going through the process those not aware
> of the policy development process can think it is how the community is
> thinking since at time the promoters might choose to use external avenues
> for publicity reasons.
>
> We can never plug all these avenues that can bring disrepute to our
> AfriNIC community, Nor can we normalize members intent.
>
> However I note the Cabinet secretary’s disappointment that the authors are
> from his juristiction.  I want to also add the disappointment that the
> authors are supposed to have been well versed with the mandate and
> responsibility of an organization like AfriNIC.  They are also office
> bearers or have stood to become office bearers in the past.
>
> As a community we need to be very active in selecting who we hand the
> mantle to lead our organization that opportunity comes up once every year
> in the AGM that will be held in Nairobi next month.
>
> I urge members to be active, we cannot control much what individual
> members propose but when we have office bearers and prospective bearers
> pushing individual or commercial agendas as the article seems to denote we
> need to keep those members away from holding any AfriNIC office.
>
> The future of our next generation cannot be left in those pushing self
> interest to the point of opening a battlefront with our African
> Governments.
>
> Badru Ntege
>
> On 4/30/17, 11:33 PM, "Noah" <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
>
> Some policies are just a waste of time...
>
> On 30 Apr 2017 8:53 p.m., "waudo siganga" <emailsignet at mailcan.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure how tit-for-tat will work. Secondly, how do you technically
>> identify the addresses being used by government; even if you block all
>> addresses assigned to .go.ke domains for example, you will be surprised
>> many government departments run their mail on yahoo, etc. Any attempt at
>> switching off government is just like throwing stones at a bee
>> hive. Also one has to take into account the impact on wananchi who rely
>> on government online services. This is a typical case of "there is a
>> problem, do something, anything. Because doing nothing you will be damned".
>> I prefer the CS suggestion of dialogue on such issues rather than switching
>> off government networks in retaliation.
>>
>> W.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017, at 05:58 PM, Christopher Momanyi wrote:
>>
>> I found this interesting
>>
>> http://www.nation.co.ke/news/1056-3908658-2snvkpz/index.html
>>
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