>> Developed countries and the IETF need to cater for these emerging >> nations to avoid the digital divide.
The IETF has addressed these issues quite well I think, because the standards are there. The IETF doesn't really have a tradition of advocating the use of these standards to service providers. Maybe a job for ISOC (or the UN :-?.
:^)
ISOC, in Franck's note, is indeed bringing an issue to the table. One might suggest commenting to NANOG (in North America, where Yahoo is located) or Apricot (The "AP" means "Asia/Pacific") in addition to the IETF list, but Franck is in fact doing this.
Franck, I'll see if I can talk with someone at Yahoo for you. This seems a reasonable request, especially given that Yahoo is a popular mail service among customers in digitally divided parts of the world.
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