Hello,
I chaired the second meeting of the .mu Select Committee which was
held in ICTA Board Room at 10:10 a.m. I took some notes of that
meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss about the
commercial, technical and policy components for .mu.
Mr Beegun pointed out that the commercial component comes after the
policy component. Mr Ramalingum mentioned that the commercial
component is important as we need to know the costs. He commented
that it is an important factor but we need to consider the other
items first. Mr Gentil mentioned that the price of a .mu domain name
is an issue and Mr Ramalingum agreed to that. Mr Dabeesing
commented that he business model cannot be finalized right now. Mr
Ramalingum compared the cost of .com and .mu and commented that the
price difference is because of economies of scale. Mr Dabeesing
asked whether a .mu domain name is sold at a fixed price. Mr Gentil
mentioned that he is a .mu registrar and he is charged the wholesale price.
Mr Gentil gave a quick overview of the of the estimated cost [1] for
the technical component. The new version of the estimates proposes
three staff. There would be two of the DNS servers hosted in
Mauritius. Mr Dabeesing asked when we can become operational. Mr
Ramalingum suggested having the Goc hosts the DNS servers. Mr
Dabeesing suggested having the DNS servers hosted at the MIXP. Mr
Gaonjur commented that Mauritians may have an issue with it being
hosted at the MIXP as there is a perception that it is the Government
Online Centre. Mr Ramaligum pointed out that the MIXP is open to everyone.
Mr Dabeesing presented the policy component. There is a policy
problem and a problem in the law. Mr Beegun mentioned that we have
to see who will be part of the .mu Council. It will be up to the .mu
Council to finalize its objectives and the details. As a comment
about the .mu Council, Mr Dabeesing said that he advised that a
two-tier model is complicated and it would not work. Mr Gentil
mentioned that his main concern is the membership. Mr Ramalingum
mentioned that it will not be possible to get something running with
hundred people being part of the discussion. Mr Ramalingum added
that certain organisations need to have reserved seats on the .mu
Council and it can be enlarge later.
Mr Gaonjur asked whether MITIA would have a seat. MITIA would have a
seat according to the current .mu Council document. Mr Gaonjur asked
about the cost and Mr Ramalingum replied that the cost is not an issue for now.
Mr Ramaligum estimated that the time to be operational would be
around six months and Mr Ramalingum agreed. Mr Dabeesing mentioned
that time is of the essense; ee need to show that it can be done in
the estimated time. Mr Dabeesing mentioned that the issue is not
money, we need to show that we can get this running. Mr Gaonjur
asked for some background information about .mu and Mr Ramalingum
provided the information.
As a representative I said that I was in favor of a membership model
instead of a .mu Council representative model. I pointed out that
there were two ISOC-MU and I raised an issue about the Consumer
Protection Agency representing users and having a representative
appointed by a Minister. I mentioned that the Mauritius Internet
Users would not have any representative under the currently proposed
.mu Council model.
There was agreement for the Chair to draft a report and submit it to
Chairperson of the Multi-stakeholder Forum once there was agreement
among the .mu Select Committee members. The draft report would
recommend having a non-profit organisation without discussing about
the details of membership. It was agreed that this would be the last
meeting of the .mu Select Committee.
The meeting ended at 11:05.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
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http://www.elandsys.com/~sm/mu-selectcommittee-technicalproposal.docx
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