Re: [ga] FYI: Background on .za redelegation plans

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

ALexander and all,

  Yeah this is a couple of day sold now.  Old news as they say.
But none the less it points out how governments are becoming increasingly
disenchanted with ICANN and their behind the scenes meddling with
ccTLD's and trying to force down the throats of their oligarchic policies
without consultation and approval of the Stakeholders/users on ccTLD
managers or the countries to which they belong governments...

Alexander Svensson wrote:

> Via Declan's Politech list:
>
> >From: Bretton Vine <bretton@deepsouth.co.za>
> [...]
> >In brief, Chapter 10 of the proposed Electronic Communications and
> >Transactions Bill seeks to establish a Domain Name Authority within South
> >Africa and give control of the .za domain to that Authority under the
> >auspices/control of the Department of Communications. This has been done
> >with zero consultation with the current .za administrator or other bodies
> >involved in the redelegation process which is already underway involving
> >Namespace ZA [www.namespace.org.za.]
> [...]
> >Quite simply, the current .za domain administrator will not redelegate the
> >administration of .za to anyone incapable of fulfilling the requirements in
> >RFC1591 and IPC-1. ICANN won't allow this either. But the government
> >refuses to see reason here. You are welcome to draw your own conclusions
> >from the information supplied below. But if the legislation is passed in
> >its current form it would have a severe and detrimental effect to the
> >provision of Internet services in South Africa. This is not something that
> >needs to be tested in order for a point to be proven and the government to
> >realise the error of their ways.
>
> Full details at http://www.politechbot.com/p-03548.html
>
> Best regards,
> /// Alexander
>
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