Hi again,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Lohento</b> <<a href="mailto:klohento@panos-ao.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">klohento@panos-ao.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font color="black" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">AfriNIC does numbering resources, not naming</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">
…</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">What
connection do you see?</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;" lang="EN-GB"></span></font></p></span>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">KL : Well, Of course, the core activity of Afrinic is
about numbering resources. But what organization is specialized on naming in
Africa? </span></font></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br>AfTLD<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB">Should not Afrinic be involved or interested in technical internet
governance issues in Africa?</span></font></span></p></div></blockquote><div>Well yes, that's their role, they are an RIR. <br><br>However, they can't do ALL of the IG issues, they aren't supposed to.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN-GB"> My answer is yes. And more over, taking into
account the feebleness of technical capacity in Africa<br>AfriNIC should be like a
"supporting organization" in relation to Internet technical issues, especially
when it's about naming, root servers, even if it's not it's core business.</span></font></span><br></p></div></blockquote><div>If you can convince the AfriNIC membership to fund these activities, more power to you!!<br></div>
</div><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>$ whois -h <a href="http://whois.afrinic.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">whois.afrinic.net</a> mctim<br>