[governance] Striking the right balance between private and public interests on the Internet

[McTim]

HI,

On 12/7/05, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at internatif.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:13:03AM +0300,

>
> I do not see why WSIS should have engaged in private corporations
> propaganda.

It's not a propaganda issue, it's a regulatory control issue.
The regulators were in the room @ WSIS, they just don't want to
confront their fellow regualtors and say "open your markets


> CEOs want new markets, fine, but it is not up to a process
> like the WSIS (which is supposed to take into account the public
> interest)

Again, it is clearly a public policy issue IF the regulator mandates
one gateway and only one gateway.

The research I have done lately suggests there is more grant money
available to support regulatory conferences/education/reform than
there is to bring more bandwidth to the developing world.

>
> > It is easy to do this cheaply and quickly via VSAT.
>
> At the cost of national independance (unless you own the satellite).

At the cost of national control, but you will be more independent (of
one provider) if multiple connections are allowed.

You don't have to own the flight, just lease the transponder (or
partial).  That's dirt cheap compared to being offline!

>
> > If the laws/regs in Djibouti only allow one international connection
> > this is then the problem.
>
> [Warning: I don't know the legal situation in Djibouti for telecoms
> and I suspect it is the same thing for McTim.]


ACK, that's why i said "If".  But how else do you sever an entire
country from the network?

> > If true, this is clearly the fault of Djibouti Telecom and the gov't
> > of Djibouti for not provisioning a truly multihomed connection.
>
> Because of the money available in this country, we can also suspect
> that it was a business decision, not a regulatory one (multihoming is
> expensive).

Cheaper than being cut off completely IMO.  They don't have to be
multihomed, all they need to do is allow more than one gateway, then
have the Providers peer with each other to provide some sort of
resiliency.


--
Cheers,

McTim
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