Re: [gaia] Blog on AFRINIC proposal

Thanks Vint for sharing your point of view.
If I may give my two cents, through advocacy is that, in the summit here in nayrobi the community all together wrote the proposal.

There needs to be stronger efforts to make internet less country-dependant and more resilient... But these are urgent matters. While we get to that resilient future, we need to support our communities on their decisions regarding their own problematics.

I understand that IP address may seem to be a technical thing, but governments are hijacking them into a political standpoint.

Instead of making this a specific action, I would suggest that we could work out a regulation that requires IP tenants not to shutdown connectivity as a condition to receive their ranges... Or some sort of agreement on openness.

Could it be possible, and would it be useful to tackle this issue? What do you think?

On June 3, 2017 4:41:04 PM GMT+03:00, Vint Cerf <vint@google.com> wrote:
>I implied it: advocacy
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>v
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>On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Nicolas Pace <nico@libre.ws> wrote:
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>> What would be your approach on this matter then? I'm curious to know
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>> On June 3, 2017 4:36:36 PM GMT+03:00, Vint Cerf <vint@google.com>
>wrote:
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>>> My reaction: politicizing IP address allocation is a mistake and
>could
>>> have enormous, negative consequences including a wide range of
>>> fragmentation and legal intimidation of the RIRs.  Advocacy is fine
>but
>>> withholding IP addresses for political reasons is not wise.
>>>
>>> v
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>>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Corinne Cath <corinnecath@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>> CFR invited me to write a blog about the recent AFRINIC proposal to
>deny
>>>> IP addresses to governments mandating Internet shutdowns. Might be
>of
>>>> interest.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.cfr.org/article/should-technical-actors-play-pol
>>>> itical-role-internet-age
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>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> Ph.D. Candidate, Oxford Internet Institute & Alan Turing Institute
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