KENIC Meeting Minutes
(11 April 2002)

The Domain Names Registration and Maintenance Steering Committee Meeting Held on 11th April 2002 At CCK Board Room - Kabete

MIN 1: MEMBERS PRESENT

MIN 2: ABSENT WITH APOLOGIES

MIN 3: ABSENT WITHOUT APOLOGY

MIN 4:THE AGENDA

1. Confirmation of the previous committee meeting minutes

2. Review and adoption of the KENIC Memorandum of Assoc. & Articles of Assoc. document.

3. Review of the Action Plan/assigned tasks

4. A.O.B.

MIN 5: INTRODUCTION

1. The chairman called the meeting to order at exactly 11.27AM and in his opening remarks said he was holding brief for Mr. Maina who once again could not make it to the meeting. He informed the members that the KENIC website was not yet ready but he was making all effort to ensure it is up and running as soon as possible.

MIN 6: MATTERS ARISING FROM THE PREVIOUS MINUTES.

The members confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting and the following matters arose.

1. Mr. Richard Bell informed the members that he did not manage to meet with Hon Dr. Shem Ochuodho at parliament building on Tuesday 9th of April 2002 despite the latter having given him an appointment.

2. It was noted by the task force that from the outset, Dr Ochudho had been kept abreast of all activities of the task force. It was further noted to date 3 emissaries had been sent by the task force to Dr Ochudho to engage him more deeply in the process, but that he had to date not attended any meetings, or commented on any of the correspondence. The Task Force felt that they should make a further attempt to engage Dr Ochudho an obtainhis blessings, before continuing the process without him. A fourth emissary - Prof. Thairu of KENET was assigned to make one final effort to contact Dr. Ochuodho to obtain his written support for Kenic

3. TESPOK pledged to provide engineers as required for the setup of the KENIC facility, and to provide local access bandwidth for traffic.

4. Mr. Charles Nduati told the meeting that he was available for any assignment on the KENIC project.

5. TelkomKenya, through its representative Mr. C. Langat was requested to provide a Kenstream link of 256K to connect Kenic to the KIXP and a Jambonet link of 256KB for upstream connectivity

6. CSK and EAIA to become associate members and their representatives to become observers to the KENIC board.

7. The earlier planned publicity meeting for KENIC on 25th of April to be shelved and instead the issues are to be propagated during the Computer Society of Kenya meeting which takes place from 14th to 17th of April 2002 in Nakuru and also during the KIXP launch on 18th April 2002.

MIN 7: ARTICLES OF THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.

Mr. Katundu informed the members that he had gone through the document with the CCK lawyers and all the changes that had been recommended by the sub-committee have been effected.

Mr. Bell said he was happy with the refined document and called on members to make a vote on its adoption. Mr. Katundu proposed for adoption and Prof. Thairu seconded him. The Chairman advised those members who may have some comments towards the KENIC Articles to forward their comments through the CCK lawyer, not later than 15th of April 2002.

It was proposed that the signing of the Memorandum of Association by the member organizations be done during the KIXP launch and Mr. Bell was tasked to draft a letter for Mr Maina (as Chair) to send to the member organizations of KENIC informing them of document signing during the launch on 18th of April 2002.

Action: Richard Bell

MIN 8: REVIEW OF ACTION PLAN

MIN 9: ccTLD .KE BUDGET

The issue of funding arose during the meeting and Mr. Katundu informed the members that the CCK Director-General is very much supportive of the project and he has pledged an initial Kshs. 10 Million from the Commission in addition to the inkind contributions that had been requested. KENIC may thus be considered to have an initial Kshs 10M for the project.Mr. R. Bell informed the members that TESPOK do not have ready money for the project but will solicit for funds from donors and he will revert to the members on its progress during the next meeting.

The Chairman stressed that members of the KENIC should contribute actively both in kind and in monetary ways.

KENET cited financial difficulties but may help to reduce cost by availing students for attachment to KENIC. Moreover, Prof. Thairu offered to consult and get back to members in the next meeting.

Mr. Nduati will give feedback on assistance from CSK after consulting with them during their meeting to be held at lake Bogoria hotel in Nakuru.

A.O.B

Future ccTLD meetings to be moved to Fridays at 11.00AM. The meetings are currently held on Thursdays.

There being no other business the meeting ended at 12.34PM. The next ccTLD full committee meeting shall take place on 3rd of May 2002 at the same venue.

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