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

Wed Apr 12 10:43:01 EAT 2017

Morning, 

The implications mentioned in the draft policy are severe considering that organisations like KeNIC may be affected, this would be a major setback for the growth/ uptake of the .Ke domain name space. 
On the flip side though, it can be seen as a major step to keep Governments in check to avoid shutdowns like those seen in Cameroon so that before they consider shutting down the internet they have an idea of the effects it may have directly on government services that are available online. It would be ironical for the government to push for digital growth, use of ICT to better lives and improve services and not see the implications of shutting down access to the internet. 

Kind regards, 
Brian M. Nyali. 
brian at kenic.or.ke 

From: "Ali Hussein via kictanet" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> 
To: "Brian Nyali" <brian at kenic.or.ke> 
Cc: "Ali Hussein" <ali at hussein.me.ke> 
Sent: Tuesday, 11 April, 2017 23:27:35 
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Interesting Internet Anti-shutdown policy draft floated at AFRINIC PDWG 

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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Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya 
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