At 09:05 21/08/2012, Alex Gakuru wrote:
>Very illuminating piece! We're currently facing the same dilemma 
>over here, a sneaky back-door takeover (illegal as per the Kenya 
>Information and Communications Act) of our National Registry by a 
>commercial interests club TESPOK (Telecommunications Services 
>Providers of Kenya).
><http://www.wanjiku.co.ke/2012/08/kenic-ceo-fires-first-salvo-at-govt-terminates-all-employees/>http://www.wanjiku.co.ke/2012/08/kenic-ceo-fires-first-salvo-at-govt-terminates-all-employees/

Alex,
the situation in you countrt seems to be placed under the usual 
common misunderstanding of the DNSystem itself.

This is why the first need we all share is to document the whole 
digital ecosystem (WDE) in a way everyone (techies, sales, politics, 
users, and press alike) can understand how it really _is_, where the 
Internet fits in, and which over delayed "multistake holder enhanced 
cooperations" are to be acknowledged, protected or created.

The only way the Internet community found so far has been to have a 
try and to learn from experience. This is the purpose of the IUCG for 
IUsers (Internet Intelligent Use users).

I have assigned the http://digisphere.org empty site to this 
documentation of the WDE. But how to do it? With who? Along which 
lines? I suspect that my vision of the digisphere will be very 
different from the one of many. So, the best would be to start one or 
several FLOSS projects to implement it if developpers were interested.

Anyhow Digisphere could start explaining what the Universal Digital 
Name System really is, based on History, RFCs, WSIS, ICPs, existing 
softwares and projects or possible projects. This work will have 
anyhow to be carried in order to reorganize the DNS governance at a 
"3.0" level (one of the reasons why ICANN did not want to 
take  responsibility for the working group having to document how to 
insert IDNA2008 into user 
operations). 


jfc