Re: africa gTLD

[Dr Nii Narku Quaynor <quaynor@ncs.com.gh>]

African registries should not be different from the rest of the world.
That will be a dangerous precidence.

Michael Dillon wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Tierno S. Bah wrote:
> 
> [self-serving political diatribe deleted]
> 
> > vital piece of the TCP/IP Stack and of Internet services. A country
> > assessment for Rwanda should indicate whether the domain name space in
> > that country is in the hands of its rightful holder, the Government of
> > Rwanda,
> 
> The government of a country is *NOT* the rightful holder of an ISO3166
> TLD. The TLD is intended for the collective benefit of Internet users
> within that country and can be managed by anyone who will do the job
> to their satisfaction. If they don't like who is doing the job, they can
> organize a group and petition to take over the TLD.
> 
> In Canada, the government has nothing to do with the management of the
> .CA TLD. In the USA, the government has nothing to do with the .US TLD.
> Same thing in many other countries.
>

True.
 
> Why should an African country be different? Why should the taxpayers of
> Rwanda or Burundi be paying for a government bureaucracy to do the job
> that a handful of volunteer Internet users could do for free. In most
> countries the TLD starts out being managed by people in the educational
> sector. Later on, people in the commercial sector who cause the largest
> workload, join in but it is still generally a cooperative venture outside
> of government.

We want to pay our way ourselves and be true partner in the development
of the Internet worldwide.

> 
> Yes, there are some aberrations from this like the UAE, but I don't think
> we should be encouraging this kind of aberration.
> 
>
Nii