Noah The trend this issue has taken cannot be reversed. You just need to embrace Govt influence however minimal or much. The writing is on the wall and we have no choice as Ugandans to work out a Public Private Partnership with Govt on this issue. Isnt the UIXP operating very well with UCC's assistance? Why dont you want them to participate in this process too?
Wire On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 16:02 +0300, Noah Sematimba wrote: > On Jul 6, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Wire James wrote: > > > McTim > > > > Thanks for quoting the RFC. However, just a quick reminder, while in > > school, we were taught about evolution. What may not have been > > anticipated at the start of this whole internet thing is probably > > taking center stage. While the RFC may have been ideal for the > > circumstances 15 years ago, alot of water has passed under the > > bridge and the importance that these TLDs carry today can no longer > > be under-estimated. While the principle of the RFC still applies > > today, it should also be revised to integrate not only individuals > > managing but also organisations. I dont see what is hard there > > especially if it is the very internet community asking for this > > change. If democracy be the virtue of what we do, then we can always > > agree to modify what one man or a few select people envisaged > > decades ago shouldnt be a problem at all. > > There is a very clear and open process for getting RFCs updated. > Infact you can author a new draft, submit it to the IETF and get the > relevant WGs to discuss it and possibly adopt it if there is > consensus. ranting on this and other mailing lists will not change > the RFC. > > > > > My proposal is that lets engage UCC as civil society or private > > sector and see to it that we achieve a middle ground on the issues > > where our fears are manifesting. > > I find your trust in UCC very amusing. While many of the people in UCC > are very nice as individuals and are even friends to many of us, we > must not forget that they are employed by UCC which is a government > body that MUST obey the instructions and orders of its political > masters. So when you propose to allow the regulator a lot of control > over an internet resource like the ccTLD, you are in effect allowing > the politicians to them they report to control the resource. > Personally the idea of allowing an politicians control over something > like this is scary. > > We've seen what happens to free speech and open access to internet > resources when the government of the day is given too much control > over the internet. CHina and Iran are quite a clear example. I really > do not see what would stop some zealous political apparatchik in the > house at Nakasero from giving instructions to disable fdc.orug or > jeema.or.ug during presidential campaigns... and no amount of > apologies afterwards and dummy commissions would make any difference > anyway! For those who would want to claim that those people would then > simply go and register another domain in the com, net or org TLDs, you > must consider that if a site becomes sufficiently popular, getting the > information out to all the people who were previously using it is not > a simple task. > > As for fears manifesting, I haven't yet seen any of these fears that > are being talked about manifesting. All I see is a lot of speculation > on what ifs.. > > Noah.
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