[kictanet] Fw: KENIC set to be wound up

Tue Jul 16 13:36:43 EAT 2013

@Adam,

I beg to differ. We can look at it in different interesting angles.

ccTLDS might belong to the days of yore but it is often used as a tool for
expressing identity and national pride, a sense of belonging, combined with
the very important aspect of root independence, and also controlling the
balance of trade by preventing capital flight, even if we are talking at
the level of 0.00001%. That is not something you ignore.

Multi-stakeholderism has been on the cross for a while in many sectors in
the region, that is scary. It's important to note that at ICANN47 in
Durban, everybody is throwing buzzwords how "bottom up", "PPP" are good
models for running public resources. Actually Mr. Fahdi the ICANN president
was so proud of the fact that ICANN is the only "true" multistakeholder
organisation in the world. Is this dying in Kenya?

On the commercial value, we are talking about 58M/year (Public info through
end year reports), and if we open up the second level, which will happen
one day, we will be talking 0.5B for the first year.

That is not something to ignore.

Warm Regards,
______________________
Mwendwa Kivuva
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On 16 July 2013 12:04, Adam Nelson <adam at varud.com> wrote:

> Let's not overthink it.  .za does not compete at the world level and .de
> serves a market that is 100x larger than what .ke serves:
>
> http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=kenya+gdp+vs+germany+gdp
>
> Generic TLDs are where stuff is happening.  Country code TLDs are just a
> vestige of the old Internet and while they will always have a place
> (government sites, locally focused domains, etc...), they are not something
> to be spending much time on.
>
> I think KENIC (or whomever) should just fix the three obvious problems and
> then move onto other issues.  Worrying about country code TLDs is just not
> worth much effort.
>
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> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>wrote:
>
>> Astonishing news, as preposterous as it sounds.
>>
>> We need a very balanced approach and meaningful engagement in getting
>> into the issues at play here.
>> I am sure most of us wants what is best for the Kenyan society and the
>> business community. I look forward to a time when the preferred domain in
>> Kenya will be .ke. Probably somebody with information can give us a
>> background overview.
>>
>> I am sure the IT Director at CCK Michael Katundu who has been a long
>> serving KENIC director wants the best out of the our ccTLD, including
>> competing at a world level like .za and .de  I am also sure in his
>> difficult and challenging task as chief IT advisory to the Director
>> General Mr. Francis Wangusi and the CCK board, the advice and outcome that
>> will be fronted will be a progressive and selfless one.
>>
>> It's interesting to note that the President of Kenya, H.E Uhuru Kenyatta
>> in his speech to business community and civil society in May 2013 during
>> swearing in of cabinet secretaries encouraged  public private partnerships
>> and fostering dialog. Nobody would like to be seen to undermine the
>> performance of the President, or his humble decree barely 100 days after he
>> took office.
>>
>> Before the re-delegation of our ccTLD, we need know what works, what does
>> not work, what effort and approaches have been employed, any working group
>> that has been constituted, how the working groups were reconstituted,
>> reports and recommendations of the working group, and finally the concrete
>> basis for the re-delegation.
>>
>> Long live .KE
>> ______________________
>> Mwendwa Kivuva
>> twitter.com/lordmwesh
>> google ID | Skype ID: lordmwesh
>>
>>
>> On 16 July 2013 08:32, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Walu and all,
>>>
>>> I really look forwad to a full public engagement process before any
>>> major decision can be made, is this the best that we can do as a nation? as
>>> the Internet society we are looking forwad to a public process that will
>>> examine possible solutions to this debacle that has dragged on for years,
>>> we are not short of case studies from Africa and globally and we will seek
>>> to demonstrate this. We welcome all stakeholders to the Kenya Internet
>>> Governance Forum to be held at Stathmore University Business School on July
>>> 26th 2013 where we shall make our position on this matter known.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Grace Mutung'u (Bomu) <
>>> nmutungu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ever since matters KENIC ceased being public.....
>>>>
>>>> On 16/07/2013, Walubengo J <jwalu at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> > Not sure if this is true...but I thought only the KENIC AGM can wound
>>>> up
>>>> > KENIC.  Not sure of the Regulator can do this single-handedly...
>>>> >
>>>> > read more...
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Kenyan regulator looks to decommission domain registrar
>>>> > The country's communications agency is looking to put in place a new
>>>> > registry, but the process is controversial
>>>> >
>>>> http://www.itworld.com/internet/365167/kenyan-regulator-looks-decommission-domain-registrar?page=0,0
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > walu.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Kenya
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