[governance] Clues for WCIT issues and prospects

[Dominique Lacroix]

OK, McTim, I take care of your objections.
I'm only the interviewer.

I'll discuss your arguments with the author, who is quite an expert, 
especially in routing, in order to find where could be misunderstandings.

About Verisign, I agree that it's a short expression for an actual 
reality: US gov COULD cut DNS access to any country in the world. 
Verisign would just execute orders.
I'm one of the best defenders of the idea that US Gov NEVER DID - in 
that way with DNS. But you could consider that in a diplomatic assembly 
devoted to discuss peacefully the power relations, such an asymetric 
situation cannot be sustainable. Especially as US Gov DID cut access by 
other means...

I'll follow that point, not surely very quickly, but surely.

@+, cheers, Dom

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Dominique Lacroix
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Le 18/12/12 16:15, McTim a écrit :
> Dominique,
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Dominique Lacroix <dl at panamo.eu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The third part deals with the price of interconnection in Africa.
>
> Which has some misinformation in both Q' and A's.
>
> "DL : Africa is now surrounded by several submarine cables. And yet,
> Internet does is not take off. It is in the case mentioned, where the
> Africans pay dearly to the countries of the North's access to the
> Internet. What is going on?"
>
> Africans actually pay dearly to African ISPs.  A very small portion of
> these subscriber fee is for Internet transit.
>
> It used to be a larger portion, as back in the day, we would pay 5000
> USD per megabit per second to vsat providers, now we pay 50 usd per
> Mbps/month.
>
> In markets with greater scale, the wholesale price is closer to 5 USD
> per Mbps/month.  We will get there, but first the CAPEX of the
> submarine cable needs to be paid.
>
> Having said that the greatest cost to African Internet subscribers by
> far is for last (and middle) mile costs....Again, the meme that South
> pays North is grossly over-exaggerated in the context of what is
> expensive in African Internet costs.
>
> In addition, it is NOT the case that Verisign can unilaterally remove
> a country from the root zone.  Nor can they deny a country access to
> the root zone data.  It is just not physically or technically
> possible.
>
> Propagating 10 year old paradigms and myths that were never true is
> just not helpful!
>


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