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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br>
Le 30/10/2012 08:37, Pierre Lotis NANKEP a écrit :<br>
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Narku Quaynor <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:quaynor@ghana.com"><quaynor@ghana.com></a><br>
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On Oct 30, 2012, at 5:30, Pierre Lotis NANKEP <<a
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style="font-weight:bold;">Nii</span> : "So,
exactly what is to be regulated about Internet
in a country ?"<br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;">Quick answer</span>
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class="yiv1809442247hps">- Domain Names</span><span>;</span></span></div>
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class="yiv1809442247hps">- IP Addresses</span><span>;</span><br>
- C<span class="yiv1809442247hps">ontents</span><span
class="yiv1809442247"> (very complex).<br>
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What do you want to regulate about domain names and
IP addresses? You have to get specific.<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);"><span
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lang="en"><span class="hps">The answer is</span>
<span class="hps">trivial</span><span
class="">!</span> <span class="hps">Not</span><span
class="">?</span></span></span></span></span><br>
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Pierre, personally I don't like this word especially when it comes
from a government's organization like ANTIC. In general, this means
that regulation is a set of rules and decisions that are taken by
the government without taking into account interests and points of
view of all stakeholders (civil society, academia, private sector,
etc). And in general, the interest of government doesn't totally
coincide with those of other stakeholders. An example in Cameroon is
the national fiber optic backbone's issue.<br>
In summary, I don't have any problem with regulation as far as the
process of regulating take into account the widest audience
expectations about the resource to be regulate.<br>
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Once this (regulation) is done in a collaborative and transparent
way, its results have more chances to be accepted by all parties and
that in my opinion is what we are looking for. Internet resources
are well managed once the decisions that rule them are accepted by
all parties.<br>
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Another danger is in the process to forget that even if we are
discussing issues of Internet in a national framework, what we
decide has an impact even out of the national territory. Websites
that are identified by domain names are visited from other countries
too, as an example. So the International Internet community is a
stakeholder to include in the discussion.<br>
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This is just an opinion from a non expert ;-)<br>
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Regards<br>
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