Dear All,<div><br></div><div>maybe we have already switched to the 'weekend mode'....:-)...</div><div><br></div><div>looking at the KENIC situation, with the equipment/infrastructure/ capacity that they have, they are way up above a registrar....so what does that make them?</div>
<div>Any knowledgeable person to give us a peek into this matter?</div><div><br></div><div>Secondly, the high prices of domain registration:</div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">KENIC's pricing of .<a href="http://co.ke/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 51); ">co.ke</a> is Ksh 2000/ and that for .ac & .sc is Ksh 500/- P/A</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">KENIC' s administrator ,Kiragu, mentioned during one of the sessions in the ICANN 38,Nairobi....that the prices are normally agreed and passed during KENIC's AGM.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Was there any changes to that effect, this year?</span></font></div>
<div><br></div><div>Querries, comments, corrections are welcomed!</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards,</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Judy Okite <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:judyokite@gmail.com" target="_blank">judyokite@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">Greetings All,</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">Thank you, for all your
inputs to the previous threads.</font><span><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span><font face="'courier new', monospace">Feel
free to</font></span><font face="'courier new', monospace"> post your belated remarks on the previous themes, by </font><span><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span><font face="'courier new', monospace">clicking </font><span><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span><font face="'courier new', monospace">on the correct subject/title.</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">Today, we
continue to discuss Critical Internet Resources,</font></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><span><font face="'courier new', monospace">1.</font><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font face="'courier new', monospace"><span style="font-size:small">
</span></font></span></span></span><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">DNSSEC</font></span></p>
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</span></font></span></span></span><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">IPV6- the regulatory angle,</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">Yesterday,on Regulation McTim,said and I quote “</font></span><span><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">I am of the opinion that if a person or org wants to live in a v4 world,
then a nation state sholdn't preclude them from doing that. Having said that, I
think it would be useful to point out that most (if not all) kit imported (new
and used) is either v6 ready or with a few software changes, can be made v6
ready.</font></span><font face="'courier new', monospace">”</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">What is your thought?</font><span><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span><font face="'courier new', monospace">Should we be concerned about e.g the hardware
getting into our country ?</font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><span style="color:black"><span><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span><font face="'courier new', monospace">And if
we should, who should be in charge of that?</font></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span></span><font face="'courier new', monospace">Reactions?</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><span><font face="'courier new', monospace"> T</font></span><font face="'courier new', monospace">oday , we add </font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">3. .ke ccTLD
management (Kenya Country Top Level Domain)</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><em><span style="color:#333333"><font face="'courier new', monospace">Kenya
Network Information Center (KENIC)</font></span></em><span><span style="color:#333333"><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span></span><span><span style="color:#333333"><font face="'courier new', monospace">was
borne through a broad based consultative process of the "Local Internet
Community" with an aim to institute a local non-profit organization to
manage and operate the .KE ccTLD. This was an initial step to facilitate growth
of the Internet sub-sect and foster the uptake of ICT's in the country through
a public private partnership (ppp's).</font></span></span><span><span style="color:#333333"><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span></span><a href="http://www.kenic.or.ke/" target="_blank"><span><font face="'courier new', monospace">www.kenic.or.ke</font></span></a><font face="'courier new', monospace"><span style="color:black"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">KENIC has
been managing the .ke , since its inception, but last year,</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><font face="'courier new', monospace">The Kenya Communications (Amendment) Act of 2009 mandated the
Commission to provide public policy oversight on the administration and
management of the dot KE country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD).</font></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><span><a href="http://www.e-" target="_blank"><font face="'courier new', monospace">http://www.e-</font></a><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font><a href="http://government.go.ke/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_details&gid=1&Itemid=119" target="_blank"><font face="'courier new', monospace">government.go.ke/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_details&gid=1&Itemid=119</font></a></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.75in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span><span><font face="'courier new', monospace">1.</font><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><font face="'courier new', monospace"><span style="font-size:small">
</span></font></span></span></span><font face="'courier new', monospace">A message sent by Mr. Walubengo, before the
discussions begun and I quote </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">“ I just have an update from yesterday's KENIC AGM (</font></span></span><a href="http://www.kenic.or.ke/" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(51, 102, 51)"><font face="'courier new', monospace">www.kenic.or.ke</font></span></a><span><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">) where the Chair, Sammy Buruchara made some clarification on the
role of the regulator (CCK) with regards to the management of the 2nd level
Kenyan</font></span></span><span><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span></span><span><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">domain name</font></span></span><span><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span></span><span><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">space.</font></span></span></div>
<span style="color:black"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:'courier new', monospace"><br></span></div>
<span><div style="text-align:left"><span><font face="'courier new', monospace">While he conceded that the</font></span><span><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span><span><font face="'courier new', monospace">Kenya</font></span><span><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span><span><font face="'courier new', monospace">Comm. Act
(2009) does mandate the Regulator to oversee these subdomains, the
Minister had yet to issue regulations on how it would be done because most
stakeholders have shown concern and reservations on that specific
clause...meaning status quo remains where the multistakeholder, public private
partnership that makes up KENIC still manages and oversees all levels of the
.KE namespace untill hopefully some consensus is reached on the way forward...”</font></span></div></span></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace"> </font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">Why has
it taken this long for the Minister to act? Is there a system/process and is it
underway?</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">I would love
to hear from the knowledgeable people, what effect has this had in the market,
more especially for the Registrars.</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:1.5in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="color:black"><font face="'courier new', monospace">Your
thoughts, inputs, corrections, are most welcome…</font></span></p>
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Regards,</font></span></p>-- <br><font color="#888888">“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.” Kofi Annan<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.” Kofi Annan<br>
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