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KENIC Meeting Minutes
(24 May 2002)


The Domain Names Registration and Maintenance Steering Committee Meeting Held on 24th May 2002 at CCK Board Room - Kabete

MIN 1: MEMBERS PRESENT

NAME ORG. EMAIL  
Mr. Alex Maina NTFecom alex.maina@alma.informatics.ac.ke Chairman
Mr. Richard Bell TESPOK Richard@swiftkenya.com Member
Mr. Michael. Katundu CCK Katundu@cck.go.ke Member
Mr. Brian Longwe TESPOK cto@nbi.ispkenya.com Member
Mr. Charles Nduati CSK Charlesnduati2002@yahoo.co.uk
Charles.nduati@dcdmkenya.com
Member
Mr. K.J Mangi CCK mangi@cck.go.ke Secretary

MIN 2: ABSENT WITH APOLOGIES

Prof. Thairu KENET dvcaca@nbnet.co.ke Member
Mr. Muruiki KIS summit@africaonline.co.ke Member
Kemei CCK kemei@cck.go.ke  

MIN 3: ABSENT WITHOUT APOLOGY

Dr. Juma Oketch IT, Ministry of Finance juma@treasury.go.ke Member
Hon. Dr. Shem Ochuodho ccTLD.ke administrative contact shem@arcc.or.ke
info@arcc.or.ke
Member
Mr. Charles Lang’at The Network Operators Association (TKL) Charles.langat@eafix.net Member

MIN 4: AGENDA

i. Confirmation of the previous committee meeting minutes.

ii. Report on Lome, Togo AFTLD meeting (KENIC Software, etc.) by Bell/Katundu

iii. Review of other KENIC Action plans/assigned tasks

MIN 5: MATTERS ARISING

The chairman apologized for not attending several meetings. He however, congratulated the team for the work done so far. He also recognised the presence of the newly appointed KENIC Director Mr. Kemei. The chairman congratulated Mr. Kemei for his appointment.

EFFORTS TO MEET HON. DR. OCHUODHO

The meeting noted that several attempts have been done to contact Hon. Dr. Ochuodho, the current administrative contact for Kenya but all in vain.

The attempts were summarized as:

i. Brian and Charles, February 2002, also managed to deliver the document to the administrative contact after along struggle. Still no feedback has been received from him.

ii. Mr. Richard Bell informed 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.

iii. Mr. Alex Maina and Mr. Najib Balala met Dr. Ochuodho on 19th April 2002 at the Stanley Hotel at 2.00p.m. Hon. Dr. Ochuodho was given a full brief on the KENIC project and his much need active role in the project. All documents concerning the KENIC project were handed over to him. So far Hon. Dr. Ochuodho has not communicated to the KENIC officials.

iv. Prof. Thairu of KENET was assigned to make one final effort to contact Hon Dr. Ochuodho to obtain his written support for KENIC he is yet to report.

v. Hon Dr. Shem Ochuodho has never attended any meeting despite the fact that he is on the KENIC mailing list.

Consequent to the above, the members resolved to pursue other options that will see the KENIC registered.

ARCC LETTER TO OTHER ISPs

It was reported that ARCC through a letter asked other ISPs to make some payments. The members viewed this as conflict of interest by ARCC, which is itself an ISP. TESPOK was tasked to respond to a letter from ARCC by highlighting the conflict of interests. The letter had asked other ISPs to make payments to ARCC.

KENIC PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

The function of KENIC public awareness was done through Computer Society of Kenya, through the launch of KIXP and during the world telecommunications day celebrations. A mention is also planned during the East African Internet Forum (EAIF) meeting to be held in Nairobi in August, 5th-9th 2002.

PLEDGES

  • TESPOK pledged to provide engineers as required for the setup of the KENIC facility, and to provide a link between the KIXP and KENIC. The Chairman to write to TKL to officially request for the link.
  • TelkomKenya had previously been requested through its representative Mr. C. Lang’at to provide a Kenstream link of 256K to connect KENIC to the KIXP and a Jambonet link of 256KB for upstream connectivity. The chairman to write to TKL to officially request for the link.
  • CCK’s Director-General is very much supportive of the project and he has pledged an initial Kshs. 10 Million.
  • The Computer Society of Kenya representative indicated that his organization could donate some hardware like Computers etc.

MIN 7: REPORT ON LOME, TOGO AFTLD MEETING (KENIC SOFTWARE)

Bell, Katundu and Longwe presented the report.

The Kenyan delegates were impressed by the Brazilian ccTLD, which was first established in 1997 by Fredenic Nevz (Neves@registro.br). The software is receiving considerable amount of admiration from the African states. The competitive advantage of the Brazilian ccTLD software is that it allows ccTLD significant control over it. It is flexible, the design is excellent, it is refined, can accommodate delegation of registry functions, it is widely used especially in Latin America also used by LACNIC and it is free (it is not for sale). The developer offered to train the KENIC engineers and translate the basic code by mid July 2002, upon receiving a serious request.

The only handicap is that it is in Portuguese. The developer offered to facilitate the process of translating it to English upon request. The delegates witnessed a demonstration of the capabilities of the software. The members recommended acquisition of the software.

MIN8: TECHNICAL ACTION PLAN

Technical committee was asked to meet under the Chairmanship of Longwe in order to finalize on the technical plan and report in the next full committee meeting.

MIN9: BUDGET

Katundu was tasked to pass the earlier budget draft proposal to Bell for update.

Chairman to write to member organizations to request them to appoint KENIC directors and pledge contributions.

MIN 10: A.O.B.

It was reported that some members had not signed the articles and that the chairman and Katundu are following up the matter.

Mr. Alexander J. Maina
CHAIRMAN
Mr. K. J. Mangi
SECRETARY
 

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