Thanx Mwende for the link, ...but cant help but share what transpired in today's morning session in the Plenary. The discussion on critical internet resources brought out the daggers from both ITU (Internaitional Telcomms Union) and ICANN (Internet Coporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). ICANN currently controls the management of IP numbers, the unique identifiers necessary to connect devices on the internet - and as the current numbers (ver 4) continue getting depleted, ITU (read governments/regulators) have seen an opportunity to grab control over the next version of numbers (ver 6). ITU basically feels that the monopoly ICANN has over the management of IP numbers should be broken - and equitably distributed accross governments, to be managed ultimately by individual countries (most likely regulators). ...which reminded me, there are some clauses in the currently proposed CCK regulations about Users/ISPs reporting the IP numbers of their servers/email systems. Could this be a coincidence or the first stage in a concerted effort in line with ITU of sharing control over these numbers....is this a good thing for the industry? walu. --- On Mon, 11/16/09, mwende njiraini <[email protected]> wrote: From: mwende njiraini <[email protected]> Subject: [kictanet] 4th IGF live reporting To: [email protected] Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, November 16, 2009, 12:57 PM Dear all, If you would like to follow live reporting of the 4th IGF in Sharm el Sheikh through various new media: twitter, flicker, blip.tv, IGF session transcripts. Available at; http://www.netvibes.com/igf09#Welcome Kind regards Mwende -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/jwalu%40yahoo.com