Dear Mr Praidy,
I am part of the the Mauritius Internet Users, which is a group
contributing to the .mu discussion.
I have heard of the proposal to involve a foreign consultant in the
process. I have outlined my strong disagreement:
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.
I am aware that we have a trusted community representative selected by
IANA who is living in Mauritius, and who is already heavily involved
in moving this project forward.
I don't see any reason to add a foreign expertise into the matter,
because that would make the latter person redundant.
Also, how can we be sure that the foreign consultant is working in the
National interest, given the recent events surrounding Massive
Internet Surveillance.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: .mu update
To: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Cc: Loganaden Velvindron <logan_at_elandsys.com>, Ish Sookun
<ish_at_hacklog.in>, "mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com"
<mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com>
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 - 15:05:01 PST