[kictanet] Breaking News: Kenyan Internet Community comes face to face

[Gakuru Alex]

Harry, all,

If asked who told us what Kenic board proposed was right, how can we
answer that?
I'm ready to lead a delegation to Director General, CCK to find out
the official position.

If necessary the same delegation would also visit the Permanent
Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communications. We shall
thereafter report back to the various lists.

Could volunteers come forward to enable us wrap up this conclusively
and soonest.

Regards,

Alex

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:11 PM,  <harry at inds.co.ke> wrote:
>
> Fellow discussants,
>
> I read that act, and as I argued some time back - I felt when the
> debate was at the time generating some online storm that seemed to
> pit the media vs the ICT fraternity,while we at the same time seemed
> to close our eyes on the various clauses in there that just doesn't
> add up for the consolidation of gains so far made in the ICT industry.
> While the media voiced out their own concerns, we were contended to
> sit back perhaps in some bemusement at what this fuss was all about.
>
> >From what I gather, most of us really never went through this document,
> to understand it's implications to this sector. A number of clauses
> are outrightly punitive, especially to the upcoming entrepreneurs. The
> clause on the .KE 2nd level name space resellership is a case in point.
> In fact as Alex has argued, it would make more sense to resell the global
> domains if licensing in addition to the current maintenance costs
> threatens to choke out whatever is left in terms of incentives for
> registrars. This Act also introduces some stringent requirements in
> order to acquire the licensing. Am just wondering, is this really
> necessary or we are working to choke the relatively young industry...?
> IMHO, this being a multistakeholder industry, a point of convergence
> is quite important that would leave all (if not, a majority of) parties
> involved and satisfied. Really, am not sure what amount of input from the
> stakeholders went in to draft this legislation.
>
> Urgently, the matters raised on this debate by the various discussants
> need to be addressed. Now, can we please move to convening a meeting forum
> to deal with this.I do sincerely hope we will not become the proverbial
> ostrich and bury our heads in the sand...
>
> Harry
>