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

[Barrack Otieno]

Hi Kivuva,

I would like to know what the Afrinic Government working group has to say
about this proposal. Have they endorsed it?
On Apr 12, 2017 1:33 AM, "Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet" <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> 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
>> ______________________
>> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya
>> twitter.com/lordmwesh
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