Its about consumer protection, legitimate companies operating in that area, encouraging new entrepreneurs etc Best Alice ------Original Message------ From: Calvin Browne Sender: africann-bounces@afrinic.net To: africann@afrinic.net ReplyTo: africann@afrinic.net Subject: Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Re: kenya amendment act and KENIC Sent: May 11, 2009 2:43 PM On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 11:05 +0000, alice munyua wrote:

There seems to be some misunderstanding about what the kenya communication amendment act 2009 (KCA 2009) and what it proposes to introduce, which is basically the era of convergence.

It is the introduction of liberalisation at the sub domain level by creating a competitive registrar model. KENIC remains the ccTLD manager of the whole dot KE namespace and registry operator. What the KCA ammendment requires is if a registered company wants to manage/sell the second level, i.e. .co.ke, sc.ke etc. they would need to get a license from CCK to become an registarar. This is encouraging competition at the sub domain level and from my interpretation that is progress..there has been a discussion on some lists that the government takes on a larger than life oversight role, this is not correct and please note that the regulatory authority CCK has always been a major stakeholder in KENIC

Best Alice

Alice, Thanks for the clarification - there is always lots of ambiguity when it comes to interpreting legislation and the effects thereof. I'm curious - how does placing a barrier to entry (the requirement to get a licence) encourage competition? Sincerely --Calvin _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann