Hi All I would like to concur with Badru on this argument. Believe you me, Charles Musisi the MD of CFI (the current managers of the .ug ccTLD) is a close personal friend and business associate. From the emails I am seeing, there is an insinuation that Badru is trying to arm wrestle the management of this ccTLD from CFI by bringing up this discussion.
I would like to say that much as I cant rule out his desire to arm wrestle the ccTLD management from CFI, that reason does not water down the points he is advancing of having a community backed approach to a national resource like the ccTLD of .ug. Lets separate personal or is it private interests from common good. If I may ask right now how do we determine the emergence of sub domains under the .ug like .or.ug, .ne.ug, etc? Is there a set procedure? Who is responsible for making the final decision on this? In the event that a dispute came up to do with the .ug domain(s), who handles such disputes? What level of powers do they have and what is the level of recognition of their decisions? Due to time I can not fully express the numerous questions I have over domain management issues in Uganda. Without going technical, I can assure you that there is a big need to streamline the way issues are done. As to whether CFI remains the .ug managers that is not the crux of the matter to me because the technical and business element is only a subset of the whole picture. I personally believe we need to have a non profit body that can offer the overall control of the .ug issues as opposed to vesting such powers in a private company. Remember once again that I am saying all this for the good of the industry without any personal leanings. Many thanks Wire James Linux Solutions On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 10:08 +0300, Badru Ntege wrote: > Ernest and All > > Please find my comments inline > > > On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:58:03 +0200, "Ernest Byaruhanga (AfriNIC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Badru, > > > > In an attempt to be more practical, I have a few unanswered questions: > > > > If there is something i missed in some posting, please inform me, as mail > > to read these days can be too much ;) > > > > o CFI has invested quite a lot in running and operating the ccTLD > > If this function is to be rotated, i would need some kind of > > compensation for my investments if i were CFI. We're talking > > training, coders' salaries, equipment, intellectual property, > > etcetera. Who will take care of this? (I theoretically see it as > > a 'buyout' or 'takeover', and a legal battle may potentially > > arise) > > In no way have i suggested that CFI be replaced. i have repeatedly said that they do a good technical job however i did suggest that maybe we get them to handle over one second level domain maybe like .or.ug to another party this is good for the market. You are all the same people who argued for the end of telecom monopoly how were those questions answered ??. Yes they have invested but they have also earned. All i'm suggesting is that .ug is a national resource and though it is run on a "cost recovery basis" we should use some of that revenue and plug it back into the community. ( And please lets not mention RCDF). > > > > > > o Reading through the IANA document ICP-1 and RFC1591, IANA assigns > > the ccTLD to an entity, with some operational requirements that > > must be fulfilled. Please see: http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-1.htm > > and http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1591.txt . Moving the ccTLD > > management from one org to another needs full consent of the > > current entity managing the cctld, and this can be done ONLY if > > the current cctld manager has 'misbehaved' as the document states. > > Generally, IANA cannot transfer management to another entity if > > there is no consent from the current manager. > > > > please read the rest for your info... > > The problem here is that most of the respondents here believe that this thread is aimed at wrestling the control away from CFI. My intention is to hopefuly change the current status quo for the better of all but not to replace the current cctld. We unfortunatley even if we wanted could not do it since you do not have a resource to do that. We have not done any capacity building. sharing second level domains would enable the country to build that capacity. > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
