Report from Kampala Meeting

Date: 23 June 2003

1430-1445 South Africa
1445-1500 Kenya
1500-1515 Ghana - Senegal - Uganda
1515-1530 Egypt
1530-1545 Mauritius

2. AfriNIC held a public meeting in Kampala on 15 June 2003, where the
host country proposals were presented.

3. Having heard the proposals that Board requested that at closed meeting be
held to find a consensus on the matter between interested parties. The
following were present at that meeting;

* Board Members including Nii Quaynor, Richard Bell, Charles Musisi,
Theo Kramer and Alan Barrett.
* Members Of The Working Group from Montevideo including Sunday Folayan,
Brian Longwe, and Anthony Brooks.
* Representatives of Host Country Bidders - including representatives from
Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, and Mauritius.

4. Those present were are able to agree on the following consensus. As with
all compromises the solution did not meet 100% of everyone's expectations,
however it was agreed that all parties present found the proposal to be an
acceptable and workable one. Notwithstanding the need for cost control and
operational efficiency, it was decided that the operational functions of
AfriNIC could be effectively divided as follows;

a. Administrative Centre. Including legal incorporation,
business manager, and, secretariat.
b. Training Centre. To co-ordinate and implement all the training
activities for AfriNIC.
c. Technical Operations Centre. Including hardware & infrastructure
facilities.
d. Back Up & Disaster Recovery Facility for Technical Operations.

5. The consensus was to allocate these functions as follows:

a. Administrative Centre - Mauritius
b. Training Centre - Ghana
c. Technical Operations Centre - South Africa
d. Back Up & Disaster Recovery Centre - Egypt

6. It was agreed that the board should issue revised terms of reference for
each of the functionalities so that the successful bidders in each section
could produce detailed implementation plans and finalize funding for their
respective areas of responsibility. These revised TORs would be discussed
with bidders.

7. Subsequent to the Kampala meeting, the AfriNIC Board of Trustees has
unanimously voted to ratify the the consensus proposal from the Kampala
meeting as described above.

Whatever our collective interests and reservations, consensus requires
compromise. We have a workable proposal on the table with consensus from
the majority of interested parties. That proposal has been ratified by the
board and we take this opportunity to inform the community at large of the
board's decision.

It is our sincere hope that the process will now begin to progress rapidly
and we thank the community for their continued support.

Yours sincerely,
The AfrNIC Board of Trustees