Apologies for cross-posting; @Barrack, it was about time these Internet Governance (IG) issues were reviewed and am glad you have offered to moderate the discussions since I have been on some temporary self-imposed "minimized" mode... But allow me to jump ahead of the scheduled topics and go to the management of the .KE namespace which is scheduled for later - I just have an update from yesterday's KENIC AGM (www.kenic.or.ke) where the Chair, Sammy Buruchara made some clarification on the role of the regulator (CCK) with regards to the management of the 2nd level Kenyan domain name space. While he conceded that the Kenya Comm. Act (2009) does mandate the Regulator to oversee these subdomains, the Minister had yet to issue regulations on how it would be done because most stakeholders have shown concern and reservations on that specific clause...meaning status quo remains where the multistakeholder, public private partnership that makes up KENIC still manages and oversees all levels of the .KE namespace untill hopefully some consensus is reached on the way forward... That notwithstanding, one of the Registrars (those who register domains) had already felt the heat, when she reported that KENIC had recovered a name she registered in favour of a "bigger" player using dispute resolution mechanisms that were yet to be made public... walu. nb: With the recent Govt handing over the management of the National Optical Fiber Backbone (+the TEAMS gateway?) to one of the Operators, the impact of the mandatory requirement for Mobile SIM card registrations, the launch of the M-Kesho (eMoney bank account) amongst other regular ICT issues such as Internet Prices, Security, IPv6 etc, I do believe you have your plate full and I look forward to these discussions. --- On Fri, 7/2/10, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote: From: Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya IGF 2010 Mailing List Discussions To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 11:01 PM Dear Listers, The Kenya ICT Network KICTANet is pleased to announce commencement of the Kenya IGF Mailing list discussion. The discussion will provide input to the Kenya National IGF that will be held on 29th July 2010. The discussions are aimed at identifying and exploring National level Internet Governance Issues. As key players in the Internet Industry, it is my pleasure to invite you to the online discussions which start on Monday 5th July 2010 and will end on 17 th July and will be moderated by myself and Judy Okite. Discussions will focus on Critical Internet Resources which is the theme in this years regional discussions to be held as from 11th to 13th August in Kampala Uganda, other topics on the agenda include: Impact of the undersea cable and the National Fibre optic Backnbone --Lessons Learnt Impact of the Unified Licensing ModelManagement of the dotke CCTLD---Challenges and MilestonesAdopting IPv6 ----Challenges and Milestionese--crimes, Privacy, Data SecurityLooking forward to an interesting discourse over the two weeks period. Thank you -- Barrack O. Otieno +41767892272 Skype: barrack.otieno -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: jwalu@yahoo.com Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com