I would favour 1. academia or 3. change the whole infrastructure to allow splintering if desired (feasible but difficult within this timeframe). I would also suggest existing NGO's might be better suited than even Namespace ZA...
In answer to your question ("Who can you trust?") the answer clearly would be that we should only trust anyone who doesn't have any obvious vested interest in such control. And in this instance it is not only a matter of trust but capability. And capability is (unlike some other moronic post'ers suggest) absolutely critical. If the technological know-how and effeciency are not present it will be disastrous to the country's budding ecommerce businesses. I fear, in addition, that the government has other motives (such as broad-scale content censorship / revenue generation / etc) which are not quite so transparent and noble.
Wot a crock! You seriously sound like you just landed here in a dish! Firstly, democratically elected and following procedure means nothing when it comes to making these types of decisions. Secondly, don't you think that there just might be a couple of teeny-weeny ulterior motives afoot here (probably based on sci-fi/voodoo hearsay). Remember what big buddies our current ANC administration is with the Chinese. And what do they do with internet content? So, you're the kind of apathetic as*hole who doesn't care that more money is (mis)spent by and on ignorant fatcats who are likely to stuph it all up causing untold harm to business and inconvenience to users (you included). And what gives you the impression that it belongsto them anyway? As far as I am concerned it belongs to the netizens of.za and them alone. And Mr Lawrence is probably not stupid enough to not have backups / documentation / recovery processes. Which wouldn't be possible to say about any ANC structures taking this over...
Get over your own anally-retentive, ego-based misperceptions of reality and start worrying about how best to ensure maximal happiness for ALL. And if you can't do that then go suck on a doorknob!
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I would favour 1. academia or 3. change the whole infrastructure to allow splintering if desired (feasible but difficult within this timeframe). I would also suggest existing NGO's might be better suited than even Namespace ZA... In answer to your question ("Who can you trust?") the answer clearly would be that we should only trust anyone who doesn't have any obvious vested interest in such control. And in this instance it is not only a matter of trust but capability. And capability is (unlike some other moronic post'ers suggest) absolutely critical. If the technological know-how and effeciency are not present it will be disastrous to the country's budding ecommerce businesses. I fear, in addition, that the government has other motives (such as broad-scale content censorship / revenue generation / etc) which are not quite so transparent and noble.
Wot a crock! You seriously sound like you just landed here in a dish! Firstly, democratically elected and following procedure means nothing when it comes to making these types of decisions. Secondly, don't you think that there just might be a couple of teeny-weeny ulterior motives afoot here (probably based on sci-fi/voodoo hearsay). Remember what big buddies our current ANC administration is with the Chinese. And what do they do with internet content? So, you're the kind of apathetic as*hole who doesn't care that more money is (mis)spent by and on ignorant fatcats who are likely to stuph it all up causing untold harm to business and inconvenience to users (you included). And what gives you the impression that it belongsto them anyway? As far as I am concerned it belongs to the netizens of .za and them alone. And Mr Lawrence is probably not stupid enough to not have backups / documentation / recovery processes. Which wouldn't be possible to say about any ANC structures taking this over...
Get over your own anally-retentive, ego-based misperceptions of reality and start worrying about how best to ensure maximal happiness for ALL. And if you can't do that then go suck on a doorknob!