<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Dear Barrack and all</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Apologies for cross posting.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Thanks for taking this up. Would be a good idea to get some really good background to this so that we can put all this in context.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">I mean from the historical Randy Bush and Dr.Shem Ochuodho days to the discussions that culminated in the Multi- Stakeholder MOU. The link below is instructive:-</div><div><br><p align="center" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; "><b><font style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IANA Report</font></b></p><table width="100%" border="0"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td width="7%"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Subject:</span></td><td width="93%"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Request of Kenya Network Information Center for Redelegation of .ke Top-Level Domain</span></td></tr><tr valign="top"><td width="7%"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Date:</span></td><td width="93%"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">20 December 2002</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (the IANA), as part of the administrative functions associated with management of the domain-name system root, is responsible for receiving requests for delegation and redelegation of top-level domains, investigating the circumstances pertinent to those requests, and reporting on the requests. In June 2002, the IANA received a request for the redelegation of the .ke (Kenya) country-code top-level domain (ccTLD). This report gives the findings and conclusions of the IANA on its investigation of that request....</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Read on for more background:-</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-family: '.HelveticaNeueUI'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.iana.org/reports/2002/ke-report-20dec02.html">http://www.iana.org/reports/2002/ke-report-20dec02.html</a></span><br><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Its important that stakeholders understand why there is concern among certain quarters on this issue.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Regards</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Ali Hussein</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">CEO | 3mice interactive media Ltd</span></div><div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Principal | Telemedia Africa Ltd</div></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 713 601113/ 0770 906375</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">"The future belongs to him who knows how to wait." - Russian Proverb</span></div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br>On Jul 18, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Barrack Otieno <<a href="mailto:otieno.barrack@gmail.com">otieno.barrack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Colleagues,<br><br></div>Many thanks to all those who have expressed concern over the above mentioned issue, i would like to invite all of you to submit your contributions to <a href="mailto:info@isoc.or.ke">info@isoc.or.ke</a> for more information please read <a href="http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CCK-sets-standards-for-next-registrar-of-top-level-domain/-/1248928/1917976/-/q4dk0tz/-/index.html">http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/CCK-sets-standards-for-next-registrar-of-top-level-domain/-/1248928/1917976/-/q4dk0tz/-/index.html</a>. During the Kenya IGF we will issue a common position as the Internet Society Kenya Chapter, we will relay the same to the Communications Commission of Kenya and the Government of Kenya. We will have a session during the Kenya IGF to discuss the issue and you are all welcomed on 26 July 2013 at Strathmore University Business School.<br>
<br></div>Best Regards<br clear="all"><div><div><div><br>-- <br>Barrack O. Otieno<div>+254721325277</div><div>+254-20-2498789<br>Skype: barrack.otieno</div><div><a href="http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/" target="_blank">http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/</a>
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