On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:32 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> Hi Logan, Ish,
> At 08:13 17-03-2015, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>>
>> Foreign expertise won't help in anyway here. It's been attempted before,
>> it
>> didn't work.
>
>
> The government representative suggested enlisting an member of the ICANN
> Board for the work. I commented that our group is against asking for
> foreign expertise. I don't know whether the .mu Select Committee will agree
> to that.
>
That would be an expensive process, and realistically, the chances of
it succeeding are as high as the last time that It was attempted. i.e
very low.
There are people who are aware of how IANA and DNS work in Mauritius,
and I don't see any good reason as to why we shouldn't have those
people in charge of driving this through. In fact, I think that so
far, we made more progress than when foreign consultants were brought
in.
> There is a .mu cost breakdown proposal at
> http://www.elandsys.com/~sm/mu-registry-cost-breakdown-proposal.doc As a
> representative of this group, I commented that the amount of money in the
> proposal could be viewed as astronomical. I also mentioned that those cost
> will have to be passed to people having .mu domain names. In my opinion it
> is not possible to see a reduction in the price of a .mu domain name if the
> cost is anywhere near the figures mentioned in the proposal.
>
> I don't think that .mu needs gold-platted DNS name servers. A non-profit
> should not waste other people's money. That may happen if the members do
> not ask whether the financial decisions of the non-profit are good
> decisions.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
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Received on Wed Mar 18 2015 - 10:48:44 PST