[Community-Discuss] SAFNOG-3: 4th - 7th September, 2017 - Durban, South Africa!

2017-05-14 Thread Mark Tinka
Hello all. It gives me great pleasure to announce that SAFNOG-3 will be held between the 4th - 7th September, 2017, in the warm and sunny city of Durban, South Africa. The meeting will be held at the Southern Sun Elangeni and Maharani, a spectacular landmark on the Golden Mile. What is exciting

Re: [Community-Discuss] [rpd] Controversial anti-shutdown policy discussed at RIPE

2017-05-14 Thread Ali Hussein
Mark Thanks for sharing. That Cameroon example is important. I've been following this discourse for a few days and I'm getting the feeling that no one in the community is supporting a shut down right? Or is there among us that do support a shut down? If we then all agree that an Internet

Re: [Community-Discuss] [rpd] Controversial anti-shutdown policy discussed at RIPE

2017-05-14 Thread Mark Elkins
With regard to the damage a shutdown can do: Many of you will know that I am part of a team who has put together a Paper on behalf of ICANN - the project which we call the African DNS Market Study. This includes getting ccTLD stats from all African countries. Because of the difficulty of getting

Re: [Community-Discuss] Controversial anti-shutdown policy discussed at RIPE

2017-05-14 Thread Ish Sookun
Hi Tutu, On 14/05/17 01:01, Tutu Ngcaba wrote: > > Do you know who appointed the supreme court in country... Its the president. > The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa [1] says: 174 (3) The President as head of the national executive, after consulting the Judicial