[AfrICANN-discuss] Comments Regarding Expiration of the JPA with the ICANN

[Dandjinou Pierre]

It seems to me Esam was speaking for himself; and to my knowledge, the AU
has no plan for safeguarding Africa against the so called'privatization'..

But I suspect the Af* (AfriNIC, AfNOG, AfrISPA, AfISOC, AfTLD, and AFREN)
should be forwarding their collective opinion with regards to the ending of
the JPA..
Best

Pierre Dandjinou
Board member, Afrinic

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:00 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:16 PM, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:
> > At 07:08 29-05-2009, Abulkhirat Esam wrote a PDF file.
> >
> > I was astonished to see a statement from the African Union Commission
> saying
> > that Africa is not ready yet.
>
> I was as well, perhaps he speaks only for himself?  That's what I
> reckoned anyway.
>
>   Does the reference to ICANN privatization and
> > liberalization refer to the call by an European Commissioner for ICANN to
> > operate transparently and with accountability so that judicial review
> could
> > be conducted via an international tribunal that would replace the courts
> in
> > California as far as who has jurisdiction over the organization?
>
> probably not, it's all to do with the end of the current Joint project
> Agreement between the US and ICANN, ending in September, and what
> comes after that.
>
> >
> >  "Africans shouldn't find themselves in a situation where ICANN is fully
> >   liberalized or privatized, without a proper planning that will ensure
> >   equal and balance participation of all countries and ensure that those
> >   plans do not undermine the stable and effective oversight of the
> internet
> >   DNS system. Otherwise this will only lead to inventing a new domination
> >   system by the developed countries over ICANN, disguised by the name of
> >   international management structure of ICANN even with safeguarding
> ICANN
> >   against capture key area identified by the PSC."
> >
> > Does the African Union Commission have a plan to ensure that Africans
> should
> > not find themselves in that situation?
>
> hahahahahaha
>
> >
> > According to the Vice President of Corporate Affairs, ICANN (
> > http://www.icann.org/presentations/levins-to-tpi-08may09-en.pdf ), the
> > organization is already private and private sector led.
> >
>
> private as in private, non profit (NGO).
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
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