Re: .africa gTLD

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

Please, alot of the point dont support why we must create a  .africa
TLD.

Tierno S. Bah wrote:
> 
> John Palmer wrote:
> 
> >
> > Again - we will contribute resources if someone wants to organize the
> > administrative/policy part.
> 
> John Palmer has generously and repeatedly volunteered his contribution
> to  setting up the .africa gTLD. As the originator of the proposition of
> a gTLD for Africa, I appreciate his concrete offer and his empathy for
> what he correctly termed the "overlooked sibling in the world of
> continents."
> But, as we all know, networking is a cooperative effort; cooperation may
> be by consensus or by unanimity (!!). I'm afraid that by looking at the
> name service aspect alone, we may overlook the other components of the
> puzzle: transmission, switching, routing, peering, etc. And end up in an
> impasse.
> 

I would use his resources for other more general registries ie
worldwide.

> Bottom line: it's not enough to build the name servers for .africa gTLD.
> Other crucial tasks must be undertaken simultaneously. Here are some of
> them:
> 
>         - open connectivity in African countries and between them
>         - telecomms policy liberalizing market opportunities for private ISPs
>         - allocating adequate spectrum to Africas ISPs
>         - policy conducive to Internet penetration in the lower strata of
> society
>         - low cost and end-user sustainable computer networking
>         - training: technical, managerial
>         - countrywide network
>         - partnership for online content creation and publishing

These are our own problems and having .africa will do little for it.
Just go work on your countries telecom policy and the other issues and
you would have helped the continent.

> ..............................................
> 
> One example: I have a partnership agreement with CERESCOR, an
> Oceanography and Marine biology research center in Guinea. Thirty-five
> (35) PhDs work at the facility, which does not have even a phone or fax
> line to downtown Conakry or to the outside world.  I plan to link the
> Center to:
> - a wireless MAN
> - international satellite link
> - and/or to the public switched telephone network.
> 
> It would be easy to configure a Unix LAN with TCP/IP client-server
> applications. Then what? How would these people communicate with
> Internet users around the world if they are part of the core Internet?
> Failure to exchange packets with the maximum number of hosts, routers,
> urbi et orbi, would be a wasteful and self-defeating approach.
> 
> The African situation is that of a technologically lagging continent. I,
> among others, want to organize an .africa gTLD, in all its aspects, not
> only "the administrative/policy part", but also the technical content
> publishing parts. To that end, the best way to reduce the gap is to open
> ourselves to the broadest cooperation possible, not isolate, restrict or
> hamper ourselves, in any way, shape or form.

I dont know about that. We in Ghana DONT think we are lagging. We think
we are at par and in some areas contributing.

> 
> I have tuned in the debate on this forum about rootservers, gTLDs, etc.
> long enough to know that is needed for Africa is an end-to-end, not a
> partial networking solution.
> 

build it.

> I appreciate the offer. But I'll pass, at least for the time being...
> 
> Best regards.

Hmmmm.......sales piece!?

> 
> - Tierno S. Bah
> AfriQ*Access, Inc.


Nii