Dear Colleagues,

Many thanks @David Indeje and @John Walubengo for this timely piece. I have been seeing some videos on the Internet attributed to an organization that is domiciled in Kenya which has a lot of interest in this matter. It might be a good idea for us at KICTAnet to convene a Kamukunji to appraise ourselves on the going ons and move towards a rough consensus on an amicable solution to the impasse. I am confident solutions will be found once we agree to talk with each other and not at each other and we may not need to involve the governments in this matter.

Thank you

Best Regards

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 10:10 PM Benson Muite via KICTANet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Hopefully much of AFRINICs work can move online.  This would
significantly reduce participation cost (both time and money).  IETF
does well for this - participation of companies such as Huawei in this
has been of very high quality.  Some of the behavior in online AFRINIC
meetings and mailing lists has been very disappointing.  Many of the
governments are elected, but the citizens probably do not know enough to
hold them to account and/or have more immediate concerns.

>From https://stats.afrinic.net/member/ Kenya has 160 Afrinic members,
South Africa 662, Nigeria 234, Ghana 93 and Egypt 74.  These are the
countries likely to exert most pressure to get things resolved.

If control moves out, we may end up in one of the situations described at:
https://archive.psg.com/150613.on-technocolonialism.html

On 3/20/23 14:51, Ali Hussein via KICTANet wrote:
> George
>
> You are on point. What surprises me more than anything else is the
> silence of ALL AFRICAN GOVERNMENTS in the unfolding event. A Chinese
> National, hiding behind a Seychelles based company employing Africans is
> behind this fiasco. 
>
> I have just one question for all of us - What is wrong with us? Is there
> a more valuable resource today than IP Addresses? This article by John
> Walubengo should make us all sit and pay attention.
>
> Regards
>
> *Ali Hussein*
>
> Fintech | Digital Transformation
>
>
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>
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>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 2:33 PM George Morara Nyabuga via KICTANet
> <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>>
> wrote:
>
>     I had not finished typing ... my apologies.
>
>     ... I hope AFRINIC survives and continues to serve Africans because
>     the resources belong to Africans. The worst case scenario is that it
>     is taken over by another RIR which means the resources will not be
>     managed by Africans for Africans. It will also perhaps demonstrate
>     our inability to take care and safeguard our resources.
>
>
>     ----
>     Prof. George Nyabuga
>     Department of Journalism & Mass Communication
>     Faculty of Social Sciences
>     University of Nairobi
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>
>     On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 2:29 PM George Morara Nyabuga
>     <gnyabuga@uonbi.ac.ke <mailto:gnyabuga@uonbi.ac.ke>> wrote:
>
>         I worked at AFRINIC and I should say the problem started when
>         the company reclaimed some IPV4 resources held by some Asian
>         company with deep pockets. The Asian company has employed all
>         sorts of tactics, including of course going to court, to
>         challenge the decision which has frustrated the work of AFRINIC.
>         It is such a sad state of affairs. I hope AFRINIC 
>
>
>         ----
>         Prof. George Nyabuga
>         Department of Journalism & Mass Communication
>         Faculty of Social Sciences
>         University of Nairobi
>         Education Building
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>         Nairobi, Kenya
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>         www.uonbi.ac.ke <http://www.uonbi.ac.ke/>
>
>
>         On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 2:17 PM Benson Muite via KICTANet
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>
>             This is quite sad.  Courts should generally be a last
>             resort.  Locally
>             funded community driven organizations seem to be difficult
>             to develop in
>             Africa, many are quite weak. Perhaps documenting good
>             examples of strong
>             organizations (ideally in Africa, but also other parts of
>             the world
>             where income is not high) is a good starting point. AFRINIC
>             seems to
>             have a lot of infighting, and long term participation
>             requires financial
>             resources that usually only large companies or governments
>             can provide.
>             Much of the participation is driven by telecommunication
>             companies,
>             which is different from other parts of the world.  Part of
>             the problem
>             may be that not enough discussion is open and subject to
>             external
>             inspection.  This allows creation of community norms and
>             enables easy
>             compliance.  Maybe it is worth comparing with LACNIC? 
>             Should KICTANET
>             and other organizations participate? The communications
>             authority does
>             not seem to play an active role, but perhaps should.
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