On Jul 6, 2010, at 9:32 PM, Joseph Abdi wrote:
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:26:30 +0300, Wire James <[email protected]
> wrote:
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...
The above already happens with the current situation ....
In-fact it can better be controlled in the arms of UCC than
individual ...
Give me one example when it actually happened that way. making
unfounded accusations should not be permitted on such public mailing
lists.
I for one ..I support the government to have control over the
registry,
however the registry be RUN by companies like CFI on termly basis
for efficiency...
Just like the current .com / .net situation ...Controlled by ICANN
but run by verisgn or
any another bid winner based on 5/7 year terms.
ICANN is not a government. In fact if you had ever actually
participated actively in ICANN processes or attended any actual ICANN
meetings you wouldn't be comparing ICANN's control of the TLDs to
having UCC a government regulator having control of the .ug ccTLD.
Believe me or NOT Noah, the brighter future for .UG is being run by
a NON profit
organization ...The main reason .UG is unsuccessful, is because we
all compete with the owner ...
(This doesn't make any sense ...and this is where CFI went wrong)
I wouldn't agree with this analysis. Infact .com was very successful
even pre-ICANN when verisign which was running the name servers for
the zone at the time was also competing with other registrars for
registrations for the zone. It comes down to marketing. Not who
actually puts records into the zone file. Also I am very leery of
people who assure me of a brighter future just on their say so.
Wishing it does not make it so.
***At minimum, we need to have what is done in Kenya ...
I find this fascination of doing what the Kenyans are doing strange.
The fact is that the internet and ISP industry in kenya is very
different from the one here. They have a very strong ISP association,
and the many seasons they spent fighting their regulator brought the
operators together in unity plus the fact that they had to get
together as a community to forcefully wrest control of their ccTLD
from the manager at the time who had actually been convicted and sent
to jail. The situation was very different and the people involved are
very different.
I remember due to a lot of insistence, the first suggestions for the
UIXP was to try the Kenya model which totally failed because of the
above reasons. We had to come up with an approach that actually let us
have a working IX on Ugandan terms. Stop assuming that just because it
works in Kenya it should work well in Uganda too.
Noah.
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