Greetings Afrik-ITes!

The following:

http://www.iana.org/

may explain some of the recent messages seen here.  In particular:

> A Brief Explanation of the Joint IANA and NSI Documents Defining
> the New Internet Corporation

> Background: As many of you are aware, the Internet Assigned
> Numbers Authority (IANA) and Network Solutions (NSI) have been
> engaged in more than two weeks of intense discussions toward
> defining the new corporation that will oversee key administrative
> functions of the Internet including the coordinating functions for
> domain names and numbers. Together, IANA and NSI in a spirit of
> cooperation have released a new set of jointly developed bylaws and
> articles of incorporation.

The composition of the board of this new corporation seems to be
somewhat controversial.  It's not clear to me (from a quick reading)
that there will be any representation at all from Africa.

Cheers!
Jeff @ Harare
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