Njeri R, I know everyone seems mute on this issue but your silence is loudest given your insider advantage at ICANN. what is your take on these clauses on internet domain administration? Even before looking at the potential technical and administrative overload at CCK for registering and monitoring internet domain administrators in the country, i still couldnt get the spirit of, or motive for these clauses. Could it be that the country needs a way of controlling potential cyber sqautters? and if so, is this the best way to go about it? or might there be another function this clauses aim to serve that we are not aware of. walu. --- Rebecca Wanjiku <rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com> wrote:
Kenyan techies headed to jail... By Rebecca Wanjiku
If the new Kenya Communications Amendment bill becomes law, all Kenyan techies and computer owners with pay a fine of shs 1 million, or risk a jail term or both.
Why? Section 86 of the KCA bill states that...
No person shall Operate an electronic Certification system Update a repository Administer a sub-domain in the ccTLD To do the above one requires a license, or face the penalties.
Michuki Mwangi, the chief executive officer of KENIC, reckons that there are many Kenyan techies who have been infringing on this rule and will face the full force of the law once its assented.
In interrogating these issues, Michuki asks, what is a repository? He argues that a repository could constitute a computer hard disk, mainly because the bill has not defined what a repository is.
I have a self signed certificate, I create sub-domains and so many other Kenyans do. The government will have to give 32million potential sub-domain users. Thats a whole load of licenses to issue, said Michuki.
Section 87 and 88 provides that: The dot KE registry and the Digital Certificate Registry need a license
Michuki reckons that .KE model is globally recognized and in deed South Africa wants to follow up but adds that the new law will open room for subdivision of the registry, provided one can pay the license.
For instance in south Africa, the .CO.ZA , .AC.ZA and other domains were operated by different entities and this is the time they are trying to integrate registry operations under one registry.
It has the right intentions but just needs a bit of tweaking and rewording. The bill could have captured other areas of IT like local content matters were not well addressed, said Michuki.
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