From eric at afrispa.org Fri Dec 3 12:27:59 2004 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Press Release - AfrISPA's Response to the current debate on Internet Governance Message-ID: <200412031227.AA45745284@afrispa.org> AfrISPA's Response to the current debate on Internet Governance 1) The term "Internet Governance" is very broad and covers a vast number of issues 2) Coordination of Internet unique identifiers is currently being handled very well in a multi-stakeholder Public / Private Partnership known as ICANN 3) As AfrISPA we support ICANN continuing to handle co-ordination of IP addresses and Internet Domain names 4) As AfrISPA we are supportive of the inclusive approach that ICANN structures provide all stakeholders 5) In Africa, we have an emerging RIR, AfriNIC, which handles the administration of IP addresses for Africans, by Africans. AfrISPA is supportive of AfriNIC handling this role in its current inclusive, bottom-up fashion 6) As AfrISPA we are concerned about issues related to cyber-crime, spam, child pornography and hate-oriented content, and the high costs of bandwidth in developing countries 7) We believe that these issues are a neglected area of Internet Governance and are the more urgent and focal areas for the WSIS, UN and ITU to address. These are cross-border problems that tend to span multiple jurisdictions 8) It is therefore necessary for the aforementioned bodies to find ways (within existing treaties, MoUs, bilateral and multilateral agreements) to address these concerns 9) In some cases model legislation may need to be drawn up. In others it may be necessary to enact new treaties on methods of dealing with offences that span multiple jurisdictions 10) We strongly object to any externally imposed adjustment in the role of ICANN or of AfriNIC 11) ICANN is NOT the body that can deal with the issues mentioned under 6) above 12) AfrISPA is in the process of preparing a comprehensive position paper in consultation with and on behalf of the African ISP community to sufficiently address this issue About AfrISPA AfrISPA is a continental association of African Internet Service Provider Associations @ www.afrispa.org. Our mission is promoting the growth of the Internet in Africa and its use as a tool for development and integration into the global knowledge economy through the strengthening of social and technical infrastructures. -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Mail: eric@afrispa.org Web: www.afrispa.org Handle: eosiakwan ICQ: 164125857 Pmb 208, Accra-North 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North, BusyInternet Facility Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html "Tomorrow Now" -- From eric at afrispa.org Fri Dec 3 17:56:43 2004 From: eric at afrispa.org (Eric Osiakwan) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] French translation of AfrISPA Press Release courtesy of Didier Kasole Message-ID: <200412031756.AA249168860@afrispa.org> La r?ponse d'AfrISPA ? la discussion courante sur la gouvernance d'Internet 1) le terme "gouvernance d'Internet" est tr?s large et couvre un vaste nombre d'issues 2) la coordination des identificateurs uniques d'Internet actuellement est tr?s bien manipul?e par un partenariat des parties prenantes publiques et priv?es nomm? ICANN 3) nous AfrISPA soutennont ICANN ? continuer la coordination des adresses IP et des noms de domaine d'Internet 4) nous AfrISPA soutennont l'approche incluse des structures d'ICANN et de ses d?positaires 5) en Afrique, nous avons un RIR naissant, AfriNIC, qui manipule l'administration des adresses d'IP pour les Africains, par les Africains. AfrISPA supporte AfriNIC dans son r?le et son mode inclusif de bas en haut. 6) comme AfrISPA nous sommes pr?occup?s par des probl?mes li?es au cyber-crime, au Spam, ? la pornographie d'enfant et au contenu tendancieux, et le manque de connectivit? ouverte et globale entre les pays en voie de d?veloppement et les pays developp?s. 7) nous croyons que ces points sont un secteur n?glig? par la gouvernance d'Internet et sont les points les plus pressants et plus focaux pour que le WSIS, l'ONU et l'ITU. Ce sont des probl?mes trans-frontaliers qui tendent ? enjamber des juridictions multiples 8) il est donc necessaire que les corps mentionn?s ci-haut trouvent des moyens (dans des trait?s existants, des accords, bilat?raux et multilat?raux) de s'occuper des ces points importants 9) dans certains cas des mod?les de l?gislation devraient ?tre ?labor?s. Dans d'autres il peut ?tre n?cessaire de signer des nouveaux trait?s sur les m?thodes de traiter les offenses qui enjambent des juridictions multiples 10) nous nous opposons fortement ? tout ajustement ext?rieurement impos? dans le r?le d'ICANN ou d'AfriNIC 11) ICANN n'est pas le corps qui peut traiter les points mentionn?es point 6) ci-dessus 12) AfrISPA est en cours de pr?parer un papier complet de position en consultation avec et au nom de la communaut? africaine d'ISP aborder suffisamment cette question AfrISPA est une association continentale des associations africaines de Internet Service Provider. Notre mission favorise la croissance de l'Internet en Afrique et son utilisation comme outil pour le d?veloppement et l'int?gration dans l'?conomie globale de la connaissance par le renforcement des infrastructures sociales et techniques. -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Mail: eric@afrispa.org Web: www.afrispa.org Handle: eosiakwan ICQ: 164125857 Pmb 208, Accra-North 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North, BusyInternet Facility Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html "Tomorrow Now" -- From kashoba at afrinet.cd Fri Dec 3 18:08:51 2004 From: kashoba at afrinet.cd (Aubin Kashoba Kalasa Nyanza) Date: Wed Nov 8 07:55:17 2006 Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Press Release - AfrISPA's Response to the currentdebate on Internet Governance References: <200412031227.AA45745284@afrispa.org> Message-ID: <010001c4d952$65c966a0$416310ac@NIC> OK, Thanks Eric. To All members of ISPA, could we agree to this. Thanks. ---------------------------- Aubin Kashoba Kalasa ISPA-DRC Pr?sident Mobile :+243 817 00 5162 Fax :+001 253 663 5563 akashoba@ispa-rdc.org http://www.ispa-rdc.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Osiakwan To: discuss@afrispa.org Cc: afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 11:27 AM Subject: [afrinic-discuss] Press Release - AfrISPA's Response to the currentdebate on Internet Governance AfrISPA's Response to the current debate on Internet Governance 1) The term "Internet Governance" is very broad and covers a vast number of issues 2) Coordination of Internet unique identifiers is currently being handled very well in a multi-stakeholder Public / Private Partnership known as ICANN 3) As AfrISPA we support ICANN continuing to handle co-ordination of IP addresses and Internet Domain names 4) As AfrISPA we are supportive of the inclusive approach that ICANN structures provide all stakeholders 5) In Africa, we have an emerging RIR, AfriNIC, which handles the administration of IP addresses for Africans, by Africans. AfrISPA is supportive of AfriNIC handling this role in its current inclusive, bottom-up fashion 6) As AfrISPA we are concerned about issues related to cyber-crime, spam, child pornography and hate-oriented content, and the high costs of bandwidth in developing countries 7) We believe that these issues are a neglected area of Internet Governance and are the more urgent and focal areas for the WSIS, UN and ITU to address. These are cross-border problems that tend to span multiple jurisdictions 8) It is therefore necessary for the aforementioned bodies to find ways (within existing treaties, MoUs, bilateral and multilateral agreements) to address these concerns 9) In some cases model legislation may need to be drawn up. In others it may be necessary to enact new treaties on methods of dealing with offences that span multiple jurisdictions 10) We strongly object to any externally imposed adjustment in the role of ICANN or of AfriNIC 11) ICANN is NOT the body that can deal with the issues mentioned under 6) above 12) AfrISPA is in the process of preparing a comprehensive position paper in consultation with and on behalf of the African ISP community to sufficiently address this issue About AfrISPA AfrISPA is a continental association of African Internet Service Provider Associations @ www.afrispa.org. Our mission is promoting the growth of the Internet in Africa and its use as a tool for development and integration into the global knowledge economy through the strengthening of social and technical infrastructures. -- Eric M.K Osiakwan Executive Secretary AfrISPA Tel: + 233.21.258800 Fax: + 233.21.258811 Cell: + 233.244.386792 Mail: eric@afrispa.org Web: www.afrispa.org Handle: eosiakwan ICQ: 164125857 Pmb 208, Accra-North 42 Ring Road Central, Accra-North, BusyInternet Facility Blog: http://afrispa.skybuilders.com/users/Eric/blog.html "Tomorrow Now" -- _______________________________________________ afrinic-discuss mailing list afrinic-discuss@afrinic.net http://196.216.2.1/mailman/listinfo.cgi/afrinic-discuss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/afrinic-discuss/attachments/20041203/028e3a21/attachment.htm