<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-9c9757cc-7fff-9d0b-8c57-cf04a1514ff2" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><font size="2" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear Ish</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">I acknowledge receipt of your email addressed to me.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Please allow me to reply in-line</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start; white-space: normal;" class=""><div class="">On 21 Apr 2021, at 21:58, Ish Sookun <<a href="mailto:ish@lsl.digital" class="">ish@lsl.digital</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi Arthur,<br class=""><br class="">On 22 February 2021 you tweeted [1] about a fruitful meeting between<br class="">AFRINIC and the ICT Authority of Mauritius on initiatives to leverage<br class="">Internet development in Mauritius.<br class=""><br class="">I asked whether those initiatives would be made public and you replied<br class="">that they will be when finalized. Are those initiatives finalised yet?</div></blockquote><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div>The AFRINIC’s initiatives proposed to ICTA are still under review at their level.<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; text-align: start; white-space: normal;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start; white-space: normal;" class=""><br class="">The ICT Authority published a Consultation Paper [2] on proposed<br class="">amendments to regulate Social Media in Mauritius. Section 11.2 of the<br class="">paper provides details on the infrastructure that the regulator proposes<br class="">to set up in order to do a Man-In-The-Middle styled decryption of all<br class="">Facebook traffic in Mauritius.<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size: 12px; text-align: start; white-space: normal;" class="">This does not give the impression of leveraging Internet development in<br class="">Mauritius. On the contrary it sounds like restricting development.<br class=""></blockquote><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><br class=""></div></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">By reading it, should I understand that you would like to know whether AFRINIC's meeting with the ICTA would have contributed to the adoption of this ICTA’s </span><a href="https://www.icta.mu/docs/2021/Social_Media_Public_Consultation.pdf" class="">Consultation Paper on proposed amendments to the ICT Act for regulating the use and addressing the abuse and misuse of Social Media in Mauritius</a><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">?</font></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">For your information, please note that on 22 February 2021, AFRINIC met ICTA in line with the framework of AFRINIC’s engagement with Internet ecosystem stakeholders, which include public organisations, civil society groups and private sectors. The said meeting was about the review of the adoption and deployment of IPv6 in Mauritius. Both parties seized this opportunity to foster initiatives to accelerate the effective deployment of this protocol on the government and operators networks to allow Internet users in Mauritius to take full advantage of the IPv6.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In the light of the above, AFRINIC has neither been consulted for nor participated in the elaboration of this consultation paper. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Furthermore, please note that as the African Internet Registry, AFRINIC values its neutrality by refraining itself to interfere in </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">the formulation of any national policies to be adopted by a government or an ICT regulator, which may be out of the scope of its </span><a href="https://www.afrinic.net/history" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">mission.</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">However, AFRINIC strives to advocate for a secure and open Internet (ref :</span><a href="https://afrinic.net/2017-04-05-keep-the-internet-open-to-all" style="text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> </span><span style="color: rgb(18, 79, 146); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">https://afrinic.net/2017-04-05-keep-the-internet-open-to-all</span></a><span style="color: rgb(18, 79, 146); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">)</span></div><br class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Hoping to have answered your concern,</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(24, 25, 27); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Kind regards</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""> </p></font></span><div class=""><div>_______________________________________________________________<br class=""><br class="">Arthur Carindal N.<br class=""><br class="">Head of Stakeholder Engagement , AFRINIC Ltd.<br class=""><br class="">t: +230 403 5100 | f: +230 466 6758 | tt: @afrinic | w: <a href="http://www.afrinic.net" class="">www.afrinic.net</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://facebook.com/afrinic" class="">facebook.com/afrinic</a> | <a href="http://flickr.com/afrinic" class="">flickr.com/afrinic</a> | <a href="http://youtube.com/afrinicmedia" class="">youtube.com/afrinicmedia</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br class="">_______________________________________________________________<br class=""><br class=""></div>
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 Apr 2021, at 21:58, Ish Sookun <<a href="mailto:ish@lsl.digital" class="">ish@lsl.digital</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Arthur,<br class=""><br class="">On 22 February 2021 you tweeted [1] about a fruitful meeting between<br class="">AFRINIC and the ICT Authority of Mauritius on initiatives to leverage<br class="">Internet development in Mauritius.<br class=""><br class="">I asked whether those initiatives would be made public and you replied<br class="">that they will be when finalized. Are those initiatives finalized yet?</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">The ICT Authority published a Consultation Paper [2] on proposed<br class="">amendments to regulate Social Media in Mauritius. Section 11.2 of the<br class="">paper provides details on the infrastructure that the regulator proposes<br class="">to set up in order to do a Man-In-The-Middle styled decryption of all<br class="">Facebook traffic in Mauritius.<br class=""><br class="">This does not give the impression of leveraging Internet development in<br class="">Mauritius. On the contrary it sounds like restricting development.</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class=""><br class="">Ish Sookun<br class=""><br class="">[1] <a href="https://twitter.com/carindaln/status/1363872993743679492" class="">https://twitter.com/carindaln/status/1363872993743679492</a><br class="">[2] <a href="https://www.icta.mu/docs/2021/Social_Media_Public_Consultation.pdf" class="">https://www.icta.mu/docs/2021/Social_Media_Public_Consultation.pdf</a><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>