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

[Makane Faye]

Dear colleagues,

Esam's views should not be a point of contention but of discussion and I 
concur with Pierre's suggestions that a collective opinion should come 
from the existing African institutions dealing with Internet Governance, 
including the African Union Commission and ECA.  In this context, there is 
need to organize a meeting in Addis Ababa in July or September taking into 
account the positions which were put forward by Africa during the WSIS 
process. 

This meeting should result in an African proposal on the future of ICANN 
in particular and Internet Governance in general.

Best regards.

Makane Faye
United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
P.O. Box 3001 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Ext. 33563
Tel: +251 11 5514534
Fax: +251 11 5514416 / 0512 / 5829
Email: mfaye at uneca.org





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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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