<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Good appreciation of events Victor. The writings are very clear on the wall. Nobody wants the ITU to control the internet. But the big question how do we fight against this threat from the ITU and its allies?<br><br><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Aminou Ndala TITA</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Intellectual Property Consultant</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Deputy Secretary General ISOC Cameroom</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">P.O Box 963</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Bamenda- NorthWest Region</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Cameroon</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Tel.+237 77364416</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">E-mail: aminou20022001@yahoo.com</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"> ndala@isoc-cameroon.org</span><br><br> </i><br><br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 8/8/12, Victor Ndonnang <i><ndonnang@isoc-cameroon.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Victor Ndonnang <ndonnang@isoc-cameroon.org><br>Subject: RE: [AfrICANN-discuss] ITU to control Internet?<br>To: africann@afrinic.net<br>Date: Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 9:00 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Dear Nacer,<br><br>Thank you for bringing this topic to the "AfrICANN" mailing list. Are you<br>part
of any UN or ITU policies discussing mailing list? I guess no.<br>First of all I would like to answer your subject question: No, the ITU is<br>not welcome to control the Internet. Why?<br><br>Simply because the ITU's policies development process is not open, not<br>transparent and not inclusive. Did you ever asked yourself where the great<br>success of the Internet came from? Because of its open structure. You don't<br>need the mandate of your country to participate in the IETF or ICANN work<br>for example. The governance of the Internet is mainly technical and we don't<br>need a voting organization to take care of it; we need a consensus based<br>organization (like IETF hosted by ISOC,ICANN, W3C...) to do the work. Let me<br>come back to your remarks and questions:<br><br>- We all agree that the Internet was born 100% US but today, It is 100%<br>global. Naturally, Its Governance has to be 100% global and inclusive. The<br>ICANN which is an important
part the Internet ecosystem today is in eyes of<br>many not 100% global but is working to become so. The WSIS calls for a<br>multi-stakeholder governance of the Internet and I can affirm that ICANN is<br>a model of a multi-stakeholder organization. I can agree that ICANN need<br>some ameliorations but I don't think the ITU can do better.<br><br>- Basically a ccTLD have to be run for the interest of the local Internet<br>Community and It is not always the case in many African Countries and that<br>is why many of our countries are facing the problem of redelegation.<br>Delegation and Redelegation policies are discussed within the ccNSO and<br>implemented by ICANN as the contractor of the IANA function. From my<br>knowledge redelegation is not dictated by the US DoC.<br><br>- ICANN deal with domain names and not web content and I think any web site<br>is subject to the law of the country where it is hosted.<br><br>Personally I cannot support the
proposal of putting the Internet under the<br>UN organization control. The Internet was built by engineers and not by<br>politicians, and Its governance is technical by nature. Today the Internet<br>Government is run with full participation of governments and I don't think<br>we need a member state organization to lead the Internet. We all know how<br>the UN works today and we can easily imagine how an UN's organization can<br>run the Internet...We all want the Internet critical resources and standards<br>to be managed with competence and excellence and not with bureaucracy and<br>political balance. <br><br>Hope you will find my comments helpful.<br>Best regards,<br>Victor.<br><br><br>-----Message d'origine-----<br>De : <a ymailto="mailto:africann-bounces@afrinic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=africann-bounces@afrinic.net">africann-bounces@afrinic.net</a> [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:africann-bounces@afrinic.net"
href="/mc/compose?to=africann-bounces@afrinic.net">africann-bounces@afrinic.net</a>] De<br>la part de Adamou Nacer<br>Envoyé : mercredi 8 août 2012 09:59<br>À : <a ymailto="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a><br>Objet : [AfrICANN-discuss] ITU to control Internet?<br><br>Hi all,<br>you have certainly already read this post [1] on the next ITU's WCIT <br>meeting by the end of this year. This week, this is certainly the fifth <br>post I read on the subject and I am asking myself some questions. So as <br>I am new on Internet Governance issues, I would finally look for answers <br>from you:<br>- I saw strong opposal from US representatives arguing that the current <br>governance model is working pretty well and don't need to be change. I <br>am agreing with that, except on some points. For a country to have its <br>ccTLD for exemple redelegated, we need approval from the US DoC.
A US <br>court's decision can seals the sort of any website as soon as this <br>website is hosted by a US law's ruled company. Even, ICANN in charge of <br>Internet Governance coordination is ruled according to US laws. These <br>are just some examples on the subject.<br>- I have even read an article a few days ago (than to our fellow Mamadou <br>Lo) on the fact that US government can take control of Internet in case <br>of emergency, as if Internet was like the US telephone system.<br><br>I don't ignore the huge positive impact US has had through the history <br>on the development of Internet as we know it nowadays, but we are <br>talking about something that is no longer belonging to a country, but <br>that is an universal resource where full openness and democracy are rules.<br><br>So now I am asking, how can we reject to China/Russia proposal of <br>putting Internet under the UN's ITU management and break its present <br>governance model while we
are not struggling to have a less US dependent <br>Internet which is an issue of same nature in my opinion?<br>What would be the african position (if there is any) on this issue?<br><br>Thanks in advance for your help.<br>Regards<br><br>[1] <br><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-board-trustees-expresse" target="_blank">http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-board-trustees-expresse</a><br>s-concern-about-potential-impact-world-conference <br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net" href="/mc/compose?to=AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net"
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