[kictanet] Interesting Internet Anti-shutdown policy draft floated at AFRINIC PDWG

[Mwendwa Kivuva]

The last part is equally important :

13.2 In the event of a government performing 3 or more such shutdowns in a
period of 10 years – all resources to the aforementioned entities shall be
revoked and no allocations to said entities shall occur for a period of 5
years.
On Apr 11, 2017 11:27 PM, "Ali Hussein" <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> Interesting.
>
> Let's pose for a minute to think this through.
>
> What does it mean to say a country like Kenya?
>
> 1. No government services?
> 2. What happens if say CA is denied such resources? Any effect on Telcom
> services? Or monitoring of such services?
> 3. How about KeNIC? Will this affect KeNIC because maybe someone can argue
> there's ia Government stake in KeNIC?
> 4. National Security?
> 5. Signet?
>
> Very interesting conversation.
>
> Thanks for sharing Kivuva.
>
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> On 11 Apr 2017, at 10:33 PM, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
> An interesting policy on anti-Internet shutdown which the authors
> think is "Draconian" in nature has been floated at the AFRINIC Policy
> Development Working Group.
>
> The draft policy says
>
> 13.0 Internet shutdown order by governments
>
> An internet shutdown is deemed to have occurred when it can be proved
> that there was an attempt, failed or successful, to restrict access to
> the internet to a segment of the population irrespective of the
> provider or access medium that they utilize.
>
>
> 13.1 In the event of an internet shutdown performed at the order of a
> government that is either total or partial:
>
> a) For a period of 12 months following the end of the shutdown –
> AFRINIC will allocate no resources to the government of the
> countryThis also applies to all government owned entities and entities
> that have direct provable relationships with said government.
> b) In the event of a transfer policy existing, AFRINIC shall not
> assist or participate in any transfers to any of the entities above.
> c) All sub-allocations of space within said country involving the
> referred to entities shall equally cease for a period of 12 months.
>
>
> Published in this link
>
> https://afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/
> policy-proposals/2061-anti-shutdown-01
>
> Regards
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