Re: Africa & Icann

[Charles Musisi <cmusisi at uol.co.ug>]

At 04:49 PM 10/26/00 +0200, Ant Brooks wrote:
>"Wawa A. Ngenge" wrote:
>
> > May I add the issue of unequal payment for access to the internet 
> backbone by
> > African countries relative to the USA.  My understanding is that we now 
> pay 100%
> > of that access so that US information consumers can come and consume 
> information
> > that is stored in Africa.  There is an ITU recommendation concerning this
> > somewhere.  I think it is an issue that ICANN should definitely take up.
>
>Some comments:
>
>1. I don't think this is an issue for ICANN to take up at all. ICANN is the
>    Internet Corporation for Assigned _Names_ and _Numbers_. ICANN is *not* an
>    organisation for dealing with general global Internet issues. I believe
>    that ICANN is already suffering from mandate-bloat, and I don't think it
>    should be encouraged to get involved in even more tangential issues.


may I suggest we move this conversation to the aig list. afnog at afnog.org
is really one for technical, networking &  infrastructure  issues..

thanks veryone.

___________________________________________________
Charles Musisi, East Africa Help Desk/Uganda OnLine
Tel:+256(41)340451, Cell:+256(75)707096, Kampala -Uganda


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