Re: .mu update

From: Loganaden Velvindron <logan_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:13:45 -0700

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 08:02:49AM -0700, S Moonesamy wrote:
> Hi Ish,
> At 07:04 17-03-2015, Ish Sookun wrote:
> >How can Internet users contribute if something is kept "secret"?
> >Are Internet users of Mauritius considered as stakeholders?
>
> It is not possible for users to contribute when everything is, by
> default, a secret. I don't like the term "stakeholders" as the
> users are generally excluded from that.
>
> >Planning a .mu usage right now means an annual investment of Rs
> >2000 just for a human-readable to numerical address conversion. I
> >struggle to keep things simple and efficient. If in 2015 we,
> >Mauritians, residents of a Cyber-Island, are asked to pay Rs 2K to
> >assert our Mauritian identity on the web, sorry but we're doing
> >something wrong. Either we fix it or we accept the situation
> >saying nothing can be done. Maybe at some point in time we will
> >then call some foreign expertise to solve it, help us bring down
> >the .mu price. Nope. I can't digest that. We fix it first, then I
> >will buy a .mu domain. I don't buy broken stuffs. If someone still
> >wants to sell me .mu for Rs 2K, he/she should make it worth that
> >sum.
>
> I am not going to pay Rs 2000 for a domain name. What if you tell
> me to accept the situation and say that nothing can be done? I
> cannot remember when last I did that. :-) Did any of that foreign
> expertise help over the last 14 years? Where were all those foreign
> organisations when the .mu problems occurred? Why can't people in
> Mauritius fix the problem? Are we incompetent?

Foreign expertise won't help in anyway here. It's been attempted before, it
didn't work.


>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 17 2015 - 15:13:47 PST