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Hi All Despite our current troubles we still hope that ICANN will choose Kenya to celebrate its birthday at the ICANN Africa meeting scheduled for November 2008. Note dates for this years IGF have changed. Now taking place in December. alice -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And Nation States Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:48:23 +0100 From: Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel@gmail.com> Reply-To: africann@afrinic.net To: africann@afrinic.net Intellectual Property Watch 28 January 2008 Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And Nation States By Monika Ermert for /Intellectual Property Watch/ The future of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will remain an important topic in Internet governance in 2008, the tenth anniversary of the private global coordination body for Internet addresses and domain names. Yet Internet governance experts also expect security in its different facets to be on the rise in Internet governance debates and point to the further growing interest of nation states in exercising their sovereign governance rights in cyberspace. And it is increasingly the case that governance of the Internet can affect access to online content. The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) <http://www.intgovforum.org/index.htm> organised by the United Nations - which in December will hold its third gathering in New Delhi - likely will see more issues related to cybercriminality, anonymity and privacy, said Jeanette Hofmann, researcher at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics, and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, and member of the IGF Advisory Group. New ICANN Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush announced a "busy year" <http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan08.htm> and a "birthday party" to take place at the annual meeting of ICANN, which will be held not in the United States but in Africa in November 2008. The location for the birthday party may be seen as a small symbol for ICANN's emphasis on its declared internationality. It has been the United States' privileged position in ICANN and root server oversight that gave the primary original impulse for the Internet governance debate that has evolved so much over the past few years. Weakening US Influence over Internet? More and more governments have called for change in the oversight structure for this tiny yet core part of the Internet and will call for that again in the newly launched consultation of the US Commerce Department National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on "The Continued Transition of the Technical Coordination and Management of the Internet's Domain Name and Addressing System." The consultation (deadline for statements 15 February) is part of the midterm review of the "Joint Project Agreement (JPA)" - the current agreement that binds ICANN to US government oversight - and may allow the full privatisation of domain name system (DNS) coordination after 2009. ICANN posted its comment to the NTIA in January, declaring: "The JPA is not longer necessary. Concluding it is the next step in transition of the coordination of the domain name system to the private sector." ICANN's Board wrote to NTIA official Suzanne Sene and said the JPA had been a necessary instrument in ICANN's formative years. "But now," the board said, "the JPA contributes to a misperception that the DNS is managed and overseen on a daily basis by the US government. Ending the JPA will provide long-term stability and security for a model that works." The Board underlined that the JPA would not affect the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract that allows the US administration to check on changes in the root zone, the heart of the DNS. The incoming US administration could withdraw from ICANN oversight, yet control over changes in the root zone, where vital information on the Internet address system is kept, might be too sensitive for any US administration. In fact, the US keeps arguing that it has to ensure the stability and security of the system that underlies a billion-dollar economy and has long become a key critical infrastructure. "The whole issue of security is drawing more and more attention, not only from nation states, but also from civil society," said Hofmann. The relationship between surveillance and privacy, data protection and transparency remains to be clearly worked out, she added. Identity management and authentication mechanisms rose much higher on the Internet governance agenda last year, and are expected to continue to do so, Hofmann said. Fight for IP Rights Intellectual property issues are in some aspects also intermingled with security. Whether the registries for country-code domains (such as .uk for the United Kingdom) should be granted special rights over new country-code-oriented top-level domain address zones, and be able to ask to be allocated the right to manage these zones via a fast track procedure, is one of ICANN's questions in this regard. Observers warn against possible domain islands under strict state control. At least some observers have followed anxiously developments in Russia where some in the administration have been reported to have shown interest in walling off the "Russian Internet." ICANN has accepted that there is a strong demand for ccTLDs in native scripts from a number of countries like China and several Arabic states and a special working group has started talks about the possible fast track procedure. But ICANN Chair Dengate Thrush spoke of a single procedure for all new top-level domains coming up. The introduction of new TLDs is a major issue for ICANN this year. Meanwhile, the longstanding fight over how personal data of individual domain name holders should be published in the so-called Whois databases of domain name registries and registrars might calm down, Hofmann said. ICANN staff finalised the procedure for dealing with exemptions for registries and registrars from jurisdictions with strong privacy regulation. Even if the United States keeps pushing for open Whois, registries and registrars from other countries can point to the need to adhere to their own national laws. Yet according to a representative for the registrars in ICANN's Generic Name Supporting Council it is not that easy at all. It was all but clear what registries and registrars had to present to be eligible for the exemptions as the procedure reads that only a lawsuit or administrative procedure against them allowed to apply for exceptional treatment. Also, settlements of disputes over ownership of domain names will continue to be important at ICANN and at the World Intellectual Property Organization. Debate over Governance Structure Changes may also come in 2008 to the institutional structure of Internet governance debates, Hofmann said. While the IGF was established as a focal point for the wider Internet governance debate - and ICANN will be kept under observation - she felt that there was a shift of a lot of discussion to intergovernmental institutions, back from self-governing bodies like the Internet Engineering Task Force (a peer standardisation body for all Internet protocol-related standards) to the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU has, for example, become more involved in security issues, last year announcing a global cybersecurity agenda <http://www.itu.int/osg/csd/cybersecurity/gca/> after years of rivalry with ICANN. More structural manoeuvring on who does what in Internet governance is expected this year, according to Wolfgang Kleinwächter, special advisor to the IGF Chair Nitin Desai. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has invited UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon to give a keynote at its June meeting on the "Future of the Internet Economy" <http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_38415463_1_1_1_1_1,00.html>, and Kleinwächter said this could be used by Ban for positioning of the UN in Internet governance. /Monika Ermert may be reached at info@ip-watch.ch <mailto:info@ip-watch.ch>./ _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann
Colleagues, Kenya needs to get the decisions around the National Coalition or whatever the solution agreed upon as soon as possible. ICANN is limited on planning time as regards managing the possible insecurity of holding a meeting in a location where security is a concern for the larger internet community. In fact this should be said the other way, we cannot (ICANN) risk having a meeting in a location where the internet community will not attend, due to the current status which today seems not clear since the media itself has now been quiet on the possible security issue, although indicates a possible forward improvement which is not indicative of stability etc. ICANN public meetings are very critical in engaging participants from an Internationalization perspective. Therefore, the decision for the cancellation was based on the turn of events that took place in Kenyan. So, like Alice I am hopeful that we can at list host the 10th Anniversary Internet party which can possibly be held away from the actual ICANN conference and broadcasted to the rest of the world from Kenya, although they are no guarantees. This is harder to do and in fact affects budgets etc. This said, the party was all planned for the Kenya meeting this November 2008. Which currently has been scheduled to happen in another unannounced location. I am hoping that a country in the Sub Sahara will put in a bid quickly enough, otherwise we will hold the meeting in a location that has already held this meeting before.... Njeri, On 2/5/08 8:35 AM, "alice" <alice@apc.org> wrote:
Hi All
Despite our current troubles we still hope that ICANN will choose Kenya to celebrate its birthday at the ICANN Africa meeting scheduled for November 2008. Note dates for this years IGF have changed. Now taking place in December.
alice
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And Nation States Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:48:23 +0100 From: Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel@gmail.com> Reply-To: africann@afrinic.net To: africann@afrinic.net
Intellectual Property Watch
28 January 2008
Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And Nation States
By Monika Ermert for /Intellectual Property Watch/ The future of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will remain an important topic in Internet governance in 2008, the tenth anniversary of the private global coordination body for Internet addresses and domain names.
Yet Internet governance experts also expect security in its different facets to be on the rise in Internet governance debates and point to the further growing interest of nation states in exercising their sovereign governance rights in cyberspace. And it is increasingly the case that governance of the Internet can affect access to online content.
The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) <http://www.intgovforum.org/index.htm> organised by the United Nations - which in December will hold its third gathering in New Delhi - likely will see more issues related to cybercriminality, anonymity and privacy, said Jeanette Hofmann, researcher at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation at the London School of Economics, and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, and member of the IGF Advisory Group.
New ICANN Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush announced a "busy year" <http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan08.htm> and a "birthday party" to take place at the annual meeting of ICANN, which will be held not in the United States but in Africa in November 2008. The location for the birthday party may be seen as a small symbol for ICANN's emphasis on its declared internationality. It has been the United States' privileged position in ICANN and root server oversight that gave the primary original impulse for the Internet governance debate that has evolved so much over the past few years.
Weakening US Influence over Internet?
More and more governments have called for change in the oversight structure for this tiny yet core part of the Internet and will call for that again in the newly launched consultation of the US Commerce Department National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on "The Continued Transition of the Technical Coordination and Management of the Internet's Domain Name and Addressing System."
The consultation (deadline for statements 15 February) is part of the midterm review of the "Joint Project Agreement (JPA)" - the current agreement that binds ICANN to US government oversight - and may allow the full privatisation of domain name system (DNS) coordination after 2009.
ICANN posted its comment to the NTIA in January, declaring: "The JPA is not longer necessary. Concluding it is the next step in transition of the coordination of the domain name system to the private sector."
ICANN's Board wrote to NTIA official Suzanne Sene and said the JPA had been a necessary instrument in ICANN's formative years. "But now," the board said, "the JPA contributes to a misperception that the DNS is managed and overseen on a daily basis by the US government. Ending the JPA will provide long-term stability and security for a model that works." The Board underlined that the JPA would not affect the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract that allows the US administration to check on changes in the root zone, the heart of the DNS.
The incoming US administration could withdraw from ICANN oversight, yet control over changes in the root zone, where vital information on the Internet address system is kept, might be too sensitive for any US administration. In fact, the US keeps arguing that it has to ensure the stability and security of the system that underlies a billion-dollar economy and has long become a key critical infrastructure.
"The whole issue of security is drawing more and more attention, not only from nation states, but also from civil society," said Hofmann. The relationship between surveillance and privacy, data protection and transparency remains to be clearly worked out, she added. Identity management and authentication mechanisms rose much higher on the Internet governance agenda last year, and are expected to continue to do so, Hofmann said.
Fight for IP Rights
Intellectual property issues are in some aspects also intermingled with security. Whether the registries for country-code domains (such as .uk for the United Kingdom) should be granted special rights over new country-code-oriented top-level domain address zones, and be able to ask to be allocated the right to manage these zones via a fast track procedure, is one of ICANN's questions in this regard. Observers warn against possible domain islands under strict state control.
At least some observers have followed anxiously developments in Russia where some in the administration have been reported to have shown interest in walling off the "Russian Internet." ICANN has accepted that there is a strong demand for ccTLDs in native scripts from a number of countries like China and several Arabic states and a special working group has started talks about the possible fast track procedure. But ICANN Chair Dengate Thrush spoke of a single procedure for all new top-level domains coming up. The introduction of new TLDs is a major issue for ICANN this year.
Meanwhile, the longstanding fight over how personal data of individual domain name holders should be published in the so-called Whois databases of domain name registries and registrars might calm down, Hofmann said. ICANN staff finalised the procedure for dealing with exemptions for registries and registrars from jurisdictions with strong privacy regulation. Even if the United States keeps pushing for open Whois, registries and registrars from other countries can point to the need to adhere to their own national laws.
Yet according to a representative for the registrars in ICANN's Generic Name Supporting Council it is not that easy at all. It was all but clear what registries and registrars had to present to be eligible for the exemptions as the procedure reads that only a lawsuit or administrative procedure against them allowed to apply for exceptional treatment.
Also, settlements of disputes over ownership of domain names will continue to be important at ICANN and at the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Debate over Governance Structure
Changes may also come in 2008 to the institutional structure of Internet governance debates, Hofmann said. While the IGF was established as a focal point for the wider Internet governance debate - and ICANN will be kept under observation - she felt that there was a shift of a lot of discussion to intergovernmental institutions, back from self-governing bodies like the Internet Engineering Task Force (a peer standardisation body for all Internet protocol-related standards) to the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU has, for example, become more involved in security issues, last year announcing a global cybersecurity agenda <http://www.itu.int/osg/csd/cybersecurity/gca/> after years of rivalry with ICANN.
More structural manoeuvring on who does what in Internet governance is expected this year, according to Wolfgang Kleinwächter, special advisor to the IGF Chair Nitin Desai. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has invited UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon to give a keynote at its June meeting on the "Future of the Internet Economy" <http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_38415463_1_1_1_1_1,00.html>, and Kleinwächter said this could be used by Ban for positioning of the UN in Internet governance.
/Monika Ermert may be reached at info@ip-watch.ch <mailto:info@ip-watch.ch>./
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I concur with your suggestions Njeri. It's unfortunate to lose hosting the ICANN meeting in November but let's try and make the best of it. Kind Regards, Waudo On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:59:52 +0300, "Njeri Rionge" <njeri.rionge@igniteco nsulting.co.ke> said: Colleagues, Kenya needs to get the decisions around the National Coalition or whatever the solution agreed upon as soon as possible. ICANN is limited on planning time as regards managing the possible insecurity of holding a meeting in a location where security is a concern for the larger internet community. In fact this should be said the other way, we cannot (ICANN) risk having a meeting in a location where the internet community will not attend, due to the current status which today seems not clear since the media itself has now been quiet on the possible security issue, although indicates a possible forward improvement which is not indicative of stability etc. ICANN public meetings are very critical in engaging participants from an Internationalization perspective. Therefore, the decision for the cancellation was based on the turn of events that took place in Kenyan. So, like Alice I am hopeful that we can at list host the 10th Anniversary Internet party which can possibly be held away from the actual ICANN conference and broadcasted to the rest of the world from Kenya, although they are no guarantees. This is harder to do and in fact affects budgets etc. This said, the party was all planned for the Kenya meeting this November 2008. Which currently has been scheduled to happen in another unannounced location. I am hoping that a country in the Sub Sahara will put in a bid quickly enough, otherwise we will hold the meeting in a location that has already held this meeting before.... Njeri, On 2/5/08 8:35 AM, "alice" <alice@apc.org> wrote: > Hi All > > Despite our current troubles we still hope that ICANN will choose Kenya > to celebrate its birthday at the ICANN Africa meeting scheduled for > November 2008. > Note dates for this years IGF have changed. Now taking place in December. > > alice > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And > Nation States > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:48:23 +0100 > From: Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel@gmail.com> > Reply-To: africann@afrinic.net > To: africann@afrinic.net > > > > Intellectual Property Watch > > > 28 January 2008 > > > Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And Nation States > > By Monika Ermert for /Intellectual Property Watch/ > The future of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers > (ICANN) will remain an important topic in Internet governance in 2008, > the tenth anniversary of the private global coordination body for > Internet addresses and domain names. > > Yet Internet governance experts also expect security in its different > facets to be on the rise in Internet governance debates and point to the > further growing interest of nation states in exercising their sovereign > governance rights in cyberspace. And it is increasingly the case that > governance of the Internet can affect access to online content. > > The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) > [1]<http://www.intgovforum.org/index.htm> organised by the United Nations - > which in December will hold its third gathering in New Delhi - likely > will see more issues related to cybercriminality, anonymity and privacy, > said Jeanette Hofmann, researcher at the Centre for Analysis of Risk and > Regulation at the London School of Economics, and at the > Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, and member of the IGF > Advisory Group. > > New ICANN Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush announced a "busy year" > [2]<http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan08.ht m> and a > "birthday party" to take place at the annual meeting of ICANN, which > will be held not in the United States but in Africa in November 2008. > The location for the birthday party may be seen as a small symbol for > ICANN's emphasis on its declared internationality. It has been the > United States' privileged position in ICANN and root server oversight > that gave the primary original impulse for the Internet governance > debate that has evolved so much over the past few years. > > Weakening US Influence over Internet? > > More and more governments have called for change in the oversight > structure for this tiny yet core part of the Internet and will call for > that again in the newly launched consultation of the US Commerce > Department National Telecommunications and Information Administration > (NTIA) on "The Continued Transition of the Technical Coordination and > Management of the Internet's Domain Name and Addressing System." > > The consultation (deadline for statements 15 February) is part of the > midterm review of the "Joint Project Agreement (JPA)" - the current > agreement that binds ICANN to US government oversight - and may allow > the full privatisation of domain name system (DNS) coordination after 2009. > > ICANN posted its comment to the NTIA in January, declaring: "The JPA is > not longer necessary. Concluding it is the next step in transition of > the coordination of the domain name system to the private sector." > > ICANN's Board wrote to NTIA official Suzanne Sene and said the JPA had > been a necessary instrument in ICANN's formative years. "But now," the > board said, "the JPA contributes to a misperception that the DNS is > managed and overseen on a daily basis by the US government. Ending the > JPA will provide long-term stability and security for a model that > works." The Board underlined that the JPA would not affect the Internet > Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) contract that allows the US > administration to check on changes in the root zone, the heart of the DNS. > > The incoming US administration could withdraw from ICANN oversight, yet > control over changes in the root zone, where vital information on the > Internet address system is kept, might be too sensitive for any US > administration. In fact, the US keeps arguing that it has to ensure the > stability and security of the system that underlies a billion-dollar > economy and has long become a key critical infrastructure. > > "The whole issue of security is drawing more and more attention, not > only from nation states, but also from civil society," said Hofmann. The > relationship between surveillance and privacy, data protection and > transparency remains to be clearly worked out, she added. Identity > management and authentication mechanisms rose much higher on the > Internet governance agenda last year, and are expected to continue to do > so, Hofmann said. > > Fight for IP Rights > > Intellectual property issues are in some aspects also intermingled with > security. Whether the registries for country-code domains (such as .uk > for the United Kingdom) should be granted special rights over new > country-code-oriented top-level domain address zones, and be able to ask > to be allocated the right to manage these zones via a fast track > procedure, is one of ICANN's questions in this regard. Observers warn > against possible domain islands under strict state control. > > At least some observers have followed anxiously developments in Russia > where some in the administration have been reported to have shown > interest in walling off the "Russian Internet." ICANN has accepted that > there is a strong demand for ccTLDs in native scripts from a number of > countries like China and several Arabic states and a special working > group has started talks about the possible fast track procedure. But > ICANN Chair Dengate Thrush spoke of a single procedure for all new > top-level domains coming up. The introduction of new TLDs is a major > issue for ICANN this year. > > Meanwhile, the longstanding fight over how personal data of individual > domain name holders should be published in the so-called Whois databases > of domain name registries and registrars might calm down, Hofmann said. > ICANN staff finalised the procedure for dealing with exemptions for > registries and registrars from jurisdictions with strong privacy > regulation. Even if the United States keeps pushing for open Whois, > registries and registrars from other countries can point to the need to > adhere to their own national laws. > > Yet according to a representative for the registrars in ICANN's Generic > Name Supporting Council it is not that easy at all. It was all but clear > what registries and registrars had to present to be eligible for the > exemptions as the procedure reads that only a lawsuit or administrative > procedure against them allowed to apply for exceptional treatment. > > Also, settlements of disputes over ownership of domain names will > continue to be important at ICANN and at the World Intellectual Property > Organization. > > Debate over Governance Structure > > Changes may also come in 2008 to the institutional structure of Internet > governance debates, Hofmann said. While the IGF was established as a > focal point for the wider Internet governance debate - and ICANN will be > kept under observation - she felt that there was a shift of a lot of > discussion to intergovernmental institutions, back from self-governing > bodies like the Internet Engineering Task Force (a peer standardisation > body for all Internet protocol-related standards) to the UN > International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU has, for example, > become more involved in security issues, last year announcing a global > cybersecurity agenda [3]<http://www.itu.int/osg/csd/cybersecurity/gca/> > after years of rivalry with ICANN. > > More structural manoeuvring on who does what in Internet governance is > expected this year, according to Wolfgang Kleinwächter, special advisor > to the IGF Chair Nitin Desai. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation > and Development (OECD) has invited UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon to > give a keynote at its June meeting on the "Future of the Internet > Economy" > [4]<http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_38415463_1_1_1 _1_1,00.html>, > and Kleinwächter said this could be used by Ban for positioning of the > UN in Internet governance. > > /Monika Ermert may be reached at info@ip-watch.ch > [5]<mailto:info@ip-watch.ch>./ > > _______________________________________________ > AfrICANN mailing list > AfrICANN@afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann > > _______________________________________________ > kictanet mailing list > kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke > [6]http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet > > This message was sent to: njeri.rionge@igniteconsulting.co.ke > Unsubscribe or change your options at > [7]http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/njeri. rionge%40ignitecons > ulting.co.ke =================================================== Njeri Rionge Chief Executive Officer Ignite Consulting Limited Eden Square 7th Floor Chiromo Rd, Westlands P. 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References 1. http://www.intgovforum.org/index.htm 2. http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan08.htm 3. http://www.itu.int/osg/csd/cybersecurity/gca/ 4. http://www.oecd.org/site/0,3407,en_21571361_38415463_1_1_1_1_1,00.html 5. mailto:info@ip-watch.ch 6. http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet 7. http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/njeri.rionge%40ignitecons 8. http://www.igniteconsulting.co.ke/ -- waudo siganga emailsignet@mailcan.com
Hey all,
Apologies for having to resurrect this post. I had not
appreciated the full impact of Kenya missing out on the
above opportunity until after I attended the recent
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) preparatory meeting in GVA.
I was totally overwhelmed by the dissapointment felt by all
delegates, but especially the AFRICAN delegates who had
voted for Kenya to hold the above conference. The lose was
definately more AFRICAN than KENYAN. How ironic!
It pains me to note that as other nations and states are
fighting about partitioning and sharing the Internet (the
ultimate resource) we are still busy fighting about and
partitioning "ancestral" land.
I want to be the first one to stand accused for having
surrendered my country to a small group of politicians who
seem determined to drive the remaining little sense of our
nationhood out of our minds. And I want also want to remind
each of us, that it is time reclaim our right to be Kenyan
- the Pride of Africa? Each of us must take up this
challenge in their own little way (use your business,
networks, friends on both sides, influence, whatever) in
order to pull us away from that point of no return.
Sorry Alice i now this is not ICT but I just didnt know how
important Kenya was until i stepped out of it after Dec
31st 2007 and really needed to ventilate abit.
walu.
--- waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com> wrote:
> I concur with your suggestions Njeri. It's unfortunate to
> lose
> hosting the ICANN meeting in November but let's try and
> make the
> best of it.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Waudo
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:59:52 +0300, "Njeri Rionge"
> <njeri.rionge@igniteco
> nsulting.co.ke> said:
>
> Colleagues,
> Kenya needs to get the decisions around the National
> Coalition
> or whatever the solution agreed upon as soon as
> possible.
> ICANN is limited on planning time as regards managing
> the
> possible insecurity of holding a meeting in a location
> where
> security is a concern for the larger internet
> community. In
> fact this should be said the other way, we cannot
> (ICANN) risk
> having a meeting in a location where the internet
> community
> will not attend, due to the current status which today
> seems
> not clear since the media itself has now been quiet on
> the
> possible security issue, although indicates a possible
> forward
> improvement which is not indicative of stability etc.
> ICANN
> public meetings are very critical in engaging
> participants
> from an Internationalization perspective. Therefore,
> the
> decision for the cancellation was based on the turn of
> events
> that took place in Kenyan.
> So, like Alice I am hopeful that we can at list host
> the 10th
> Anniversary Internet party which can possibly be held
> away
> from the actual ICANN conference and broadcasted to the
> rest
> of the world from Kenya, although they are no
> guarantees. This
> is harder to do and in fact affects budgets etc.
> This said, the party was all planned for the Kenya
> meeting
> this November 2008. Which currently has been scheduled
> to
> happen in another unannounced location. I am hoping
> that a
> country in the Sub Sahara will put in a bid quickly
> enough,
> otherwise we will hold the meeting in a location that
> has
> already held this meeting before....
> Njeri,
> On 2/5/08 8:35 AM, "alice" <alice@apc.org> wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Despite our current troubles we still hope that
> ICANN will
> choose Kenya
> > to celebrate its birthday at the ICANN Africa meeting
> scheduled for
> > November 2008.
> > Note dates for this years IGF have changed. Now
> taking place
> in December.
> >
> > alice
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Governance:
> ICANN,
> Security And
> > Nation States
> > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:48:23 +0100
> > From: Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel@gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: africann@afrinic.net
> > To: africann@afrinic.net
> >
> >
> >
> > Intellectual Property Watch
> >
> >
> > 28 January 2008
> >
> >
> > Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And Nation
> States
> >
> > By Monika Ermert for /Intellectual Property Watch/
> > The future of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
> Names
> and Numbers
> > (ICANN) will remain an important topic in Internet
> governance in 2008,
> > the tenth anniversary of the private global
> coordination
> body for
> > Internet addresses and domain names.
> >
> > Yet Internet governance experts also expect security
> in its
> different
> > facets to be on the rise in Internet governance
> debates and
> point to the
> > further growing interest of nation states in
> exercising
> their sovereign
> > governance rights in cyberspace. And it is
> increasingly the
> case that
> > governance of the Internet can affect access to
> online
> content.
> >
> > The Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
> > [1]<http://www.intgovforum.org/index.htm> organised
> by the
> United Nations -
> > which in December will hold its third gathering in
> New Delhi
> - likely
> > will see more issues related to cybercriminality,
> anonymity
> and privacy,
> > said Jeanette Hofmann, researcher at the Centre for
> Analysis
> of Risk and
> > Regulation at the London School of Economics, and at
> the
> > Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, and
> member
> of the IGF
> > Advisory Group.
> >
> > New ICANN Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush
> announced a
> "busy year"
> >
>
>
[2]<http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan08.ht
> m> and a
> > "birthday party" to take place at the annual meeting
> of
> ICANN, which
> > will be held not in the United States but in Africa
> in
> November 2008.
> > The location for the birthday party may be seen as a
> small
> symbol for
> > ICANN's emphasis on its declared internationality. It
> has
> been the
> > United States' privileged position in ICANN and root
> server
> oversight
> > that gave the primary original impulse for the
> Internet
> governance
> > debate that has evolved so much over the past few
> years.
> >
> > Weakening US Influence over Internet?
> >
> > More and more governments have called for change in
> the
> oversight
> > structure for this tiny yet core part of the Internet
> and
> will call for
> > that again in the newly launched consultation of the
> US
> Commerce
> > Department National Telecommunications and
> Information
> Administration
> > (NTIA) on "The Continued Transition of the Technical
> Coordination and
> > Management of the Internet's Domain Name and
> Addressing
> System."
> >
> > The consultation (deadline for statements 15
> February) is
> part of the
> > midterm review of the "Joint Project Agreement (JPA)"
> - the
> current
>
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Walu and all
And its not just the ICANN meeting, we have lost UPU among many others.
alice
-----Original Message-----
From: kictanet-bounces+wanjira=cck.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke on behalf of John Walubengo
Sent: Wed 27/02/2008 19:56
To: Wanjira, Alice Munyua
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya loses the ICANN meeting scheduled for November2008
Hey all,
Apologies for having to resurrect this post. I had not
appreciated the full impact of Kenya missing out on the
above opportunity until after I attended the recent
Internet Governance Forum (IGF) preparatory meeting in GVA.
I was totally overwhelmed by the dissapointment felt by all
delegates, but especially the AFRICAN delegates who had
voted for Kenya to hold the above conference. The lose was
definately more AFRICAN than KENYAN. How ironic!
It pains me to note that as other nations and states are
fighting about partitioning and sharing the Internet (the
ultimate resource) we are still busy fighting about and
partitioning "ancestral" land.
I want to be the first one to stand accused for having
surrendered my country to a small group of politicians who
seem determined to drive the remaining little sense of our
nationhood out of our minds. And I want also want to remind
each of us, that it is time reclaim our right to be Kenyan
- the Pride of Africa? Each of us must take up this
challenge in their own little way (use your business,
networks, friends on both sides, influence, whatever) in
order to pull us away from that point of no return.
Sorry Alice i now this is not ICT but I just didnt know how
important Kenya was until i stepped out of it after Dec
31st 2007 and really needed to ventilate abit.
walu.
--- waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com> wrote:
> I concur with your suggestions Njeri. It's unfortunate to
> lose
> hosting the ICANN meeting in November but let's try and
> make the
> best of it.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Waudo
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:59:52 +0300, "Njeri Rionge"
> <njeri.rionge@igniteco
> nsulting.co.ke> said:
>
> Colleagues,
> Kenya needs to get the decisions around the National
> Coalition
> or whatever the solution agreed upon as soon as
> possible.
> ICANN is limited on planning time as regards managing
> the
> possible insecurity of holding a meeting in a location
> where
> security is a concern for the larger internet
> community. In
> fact this should be said the other way, we cannot
> (ICANN) risk
> having a meeting in a location where the internet
> community
> will not attend, due to the current status which today
> seems
> not clear since the media itself has now been quiet on
> the
> possible security issue, although indicates a possible
> forward
> improvement which is not indicative of stability etc.
> ICANN
> public meetings are very critical in engaging
> participants
> from an Internationalization perspective. Therefore,
> the
> decision for the cancellation was based on the turn of
> events
> that took place in Kenyan.
> So, like Alice I am hopeful that we can at list host
> the 10th
> Anniversary Internet party which can possibly be held
> away
> from the actual ICANN conference and broadcasted to the
> rest
> of the world from Kenya, although they are no
> guarantees. This
> is harder to do and in fact affects budgets etc.
> This said, the party was all planned for the Kenya
> meeting
> this November 2008. Which currently has been scheduled
> to
> happen in another unannounced location. I am hoping
> that a
> country in the Sub Sahara will put in a bid quickly
> enough,
> otherwise we will hold the meeting in a location that
> has
> already held this meeting before....
> Njeri,
> On 2/5/08 8:35 AM, "alice" <alice@apc.org> wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > Despite our current troubles we still hope that
> ICANN will
> choose Kenya
> > to celebrate its birthday at the ICANN Africa meeting
> scheduled for
> > November 2008.
> > Note dates for this years IGF have changed. Now
> taking place
> in December.
> >
> > alice
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Governance:
> ICANN,
> Security And
> > Nation States
> > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:48:23 +0100
> > From: Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel@gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: africann@afrinic.net
> > To: africann@afrinic.net
> >
> >
> >
> > Intellectual Property Watch
> >
> >
> > 28 January 2008
> >
> >
> > Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And Nation
> States
> >
> > By Monika Ermert for /Intellectual Property Watch/
> > The future of the Internet Corporation for Assigned
> Names
> and Numbers
> > (ICANN) will remain an important topic in Internet
> governance in 2008,
> > the tenth anniversary of the private global
> coordination
> body for
> > Internet addresses and domain names.
> >
> > Yet Internet governance experts also expect security
> in its
> different
> > facets to be on the rise in Internet governance
> debates and
> point to the
> > further growing interest of nation states in
> exercising
> their sovereign
> > governance rights in cyberspace. And it is
> increasingly the
> case that
> > governance of the Internet can affect access to
> online
> content.
> >
> > The Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
> > [1]<http://www.intgovforum.org/index.htm> organised
> by the
> United Nations -
> > which in December will hold its third gathering in
> New Delhi
> - likely
> > will see more issues related to cybercriminality,
> anonymity
> and privacy,
> > said Jeanette Hofmann, researcher at the Centre for
> Analysis
> of Risk and
> > Regulation at the London School of Economics, and at
> the
> > Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, and
> member
> of the IGF
> > Advisory Group.
> >
> > New ICANN Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush
> announced a
> "busy year"
> >
>
>
[2]<http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan08.ht
> m> and a
> > "birthday party" to take place at the annual meeting
> of
> ICANN, which
> > will be held not in the United States but in Africa
> in
> November 2008.
> > The location for the birthday party may be seen as a
> small
> symbol for
> > ICANN's emphasis on its declared internationality. It
> has
> been the
> > United States' privileged position in ICANN and root
> server
> oversight
> > that gave the primary original impulse for the
> Internet
> governance
> > debate that has evolved so much over the past few
> years.
> >
> > Weakening US Influence over Internet?
> >
> > More and more governments have called for change in
> the
> oversight
> > structure for this tiny yet core part of the Internet
> and
> will call for
> > that again in the newly launched consultation of the
> US
> Commerce
> > Department National Telecommunications and
> Information
> Administration
> > (NTIA) on "The Continued Transition of the Technical
> Coordination and
> > Management of the Internet's Domain Name and
> Addressing
> System."
> >
> > The consultation (deadline for statements 15
> February) is
> part of the
> > midterm review of the "Joint Project Agreement (JPA)"
> - the
> current
>
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Dear All, Amidst this gloom, Im pleased to say that although we had to postpone our Banking Technology Conference to 1-3 April, due to international speakers not being able to attend, that event is still on track and we have an extensive conference programme lined up for the rest of the year. Our programme is attached for your reference. Yours sincerely, Sean Moroney Chairman AITEC Africa <mailto:seanm@aitecafrica.com> seanm@aitecafrica.com UK Tel: +44(0)1480-880774 UK Fax: +44(0)1480-880765 UK Mobile: +44(0)7973-499224 Kenya Mobile: +254(0)721-845674 Nigeria Mobile: +234(0)802-0571766 SA Mobile: +27(0)724-577887 Skype: seanmoroney <http://www.aitecafrica.com> www.aitecafrica.com Please visit our discussion group on The Banking Technology sector in Africa at: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africanbankingtech> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/africanbankingtech Registered as:AITEC Conferences Ltd at Companies House, No. 4698475. Address: Cromer House, Caxton Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2DF, UK _____ From: kictanet-bounces+seanm=aitecafrica.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+seanm=aitecafrica.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Wanjira, Alice Munyua Sent: 28 February 2008 05:14 To: seanm@aitecafrica.com Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya loses the ICANN meeting scheduled forNovember2008 Walu and all And its not just the ICANN meeting, we have lost UPU among many others. alice -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-bounces+wanjira=cck.go.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke on behalf of John Walubengo Sent: Wed 27/02/2008 19:56 To: Wanjira, Alice Munyua Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya loses the ICANN meeting scheduled for November2008 Hey all, Apologies for having to resurrect this post. I had not appreciated the full impact of Kenya missing out on the above opportunity until after I attended the recent Internet Governance Forum (IGF) preparatory meeting in GVA. I was totally overwhelmed by the dissapointment felt by all delegates, but especially the AFRICAN delegates who had voted for Kenya to hold the above conference. The lose was definately more AFRICAN than KENYAN. How ironic! It pains me to note that as other nations and states are fighting about partitioning and sharing the Internet (the ultimate resource) we are still busy fighting about and partitioning "ancestral" land. I want to be the first one to stand accused for having surrendered my country to a small group of politicians who seem determined to drive the remaining little sense of our nationhood out of our minds. And I want also want to remind each of us, that it is time reclaim our right to be Kenyan - the Pride of Africa? Each of us must take up this challenge in their own little way (use your business, networks, friends on both sides, influence, whatever) in order to pull us away from that point of no return. Sorry Alice i now this is not ICT but I just didnt know how important Kenya was until i stepped out of it after Dec 31st 2007 and really needed to ventilate abit. walu. --- waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com> wrote: > I concur with your suggestions Njeri. It's unfortunate to > lose > hosting the ICANN meeting in November but let's try and > make the > best of it. > > Kind Regards, > Waudo > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:59:52 +0300, "Njeri Rionge" > <njeri.rionge@igniteco > nsulting.co.ke> said: > > Colleagues, > Kenya needs to get the decisions around the National > Coalition > or whatever the solution agreed upon as soon as > possible. > ICANN is limited on planning time as regards managing > the > possible insecurity of holding a meeting in a location > where > security is a concern for the larger internet > community. In > fact this should be said the other way, we cannot > (ICANN) risk > having a meeting in a location where the internet > community > will not attend, due to the current status which today > seems > not clear since the media itself has now been quiet on > the > possible security issue, although indicates a possible > forward > improvement which is not indicative of stability etc. > ICANN > public meetings are very critical in engaging > participants > from an Internationalization perspective. Therefore, > the > decision for the cancellation was based on the turn of > events > that took place in Kenyan. > So, like Alice I am hopeful that we can at list host > the 10th > Anniversary Internet party which can possibly be held > away > from the actual ICANN conference and broadcasted to the > rest > of the world from Kenya, although they are no > guarantees. This > is harder to do and in fact affects budgets etc. > This said, the party was all planned for the Kenya > meeting > this November 2008. Which currently has been scheduled > to > happen in another unannounced location. I am hoping > that a > country in the Sub Sahara will put in a bid quickly > enough, > otherwise we will hold the meeting in a location that > has > already held this meeting before.... > Njeri, > On 2/5/08 8:35 AM, "alice" <alice@apc.org> wrote: > > Hi All > > > > Despite our current troubles we still hope that > ICANN will > choose Kenya > > to celebrate its birthday at the ICANN Africa meeting > scheduled for > > November 2008. > > Note dates for this years IGF have changed. Now > taking place > in December. > > > > alice > > > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Internet Governance: > ICANN, > Security And > > Nation States > > Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:48:23 +0100 > > From: Anne-Rachel Inné <annerachel@gmail.com> > > Reply-To: africann@afrinic.net > > To: africann@afrinic.net > > > > > > > > Intellectual Property Watch > > > > > > 28 January 2008 > > > > > > Internet Governance: ICANN, Security And Nation > States > > > > By Monika Ermert for /Intellectual Property Watch/ > > The future of the Internet Corporation for Assigned > Names > and Numbers > > (ICANN) will remain an important topic in Internet > governance in 2008, > > the tenth anniversary of the private global > coordination > body for > > Internet addresses and domain names. > > > > Yet Internet governance experts also expect security > in its > different > > facets to be on the rise in Internet governance > debates and > point to the > > further growing interest of nation states in > exercising > their sovereign > > governance rights in cyberspace. And it is > increasingly the > case that > > governance of the Internet can affect access to > online > content. > > > > The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) > > [1]<http://www.intgovforum.org/index.htm> organised > by the > United Nations - > > which in December will hold its third gathering in > New Delhi > - likely > > will see more issues related to cybercriminality, > anonymity > and privacy, > > said Jeanette Hofmann, researcher at the Centre for > Analysis > of Risk and > > Regulation at the London School of Economics, and at > the > > Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, and > member > of the IGF > > Advisory Group. > > > > New ICANN Board Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush > announced a > "busy year" > > > > [2]<http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-03jan08.ht > m> and a > > "birthday party" to take place at the annual meeting > of > ICANN, which > > will be held not in the United States but in Africa > in > November 2008. > > The location for the birthday party may be seen as a > small > symbol for > > ICANN's emphasis on its declared internationality. It > has > been the > > United States' privileged position in ICANN and root > server > oversight > > that gave the primary original impulse for the > Internet > governance > > debate that has evolved so much over the past few > years. > > > > Weakening US Influence over Internet? > > > > More and more governments have called for change in > the > oversight > > structure for this tiny yet core part of the Internet > and > will call for > > that again in the newly launched consultation of the > US > Commerce > > Department National Telecommunications and > Information > Administration > > (NTIA) on "The Continued Transition of the Technical > Coordination and > > Management of the Internet's Domain Name and > Addressing > System." > > > > The consultation (deadline for statements 15 > February) is > part of the > > midterm review of the "Joint Project Agreement (JPA)" > - the > current > === message truncated ===> _______________________________________________ > 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 > ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? 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participants (6)
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alice -
John Walubengo -
Njeri Rionge -
Sean Moroney -
Wanjira, Alice Munyua -
waudo siganga