[AfrICANN-discuss] Fwd: Alice Munyau: STOP Misrepresenting and
Distorting Facts to the African Publics
Rebecca Wanjiku
rebecca.wanjiku at gmail.com
Wed Aug 8 05:46:59 SAST 2012
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On Aug 8, 2012, at 2:02, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I couldn't let this silliness go without comment:
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> Subject: Alice Munyau: STOP Misrepresenting and Distorting Facts to the African Publics
> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 01:00:36 -0400 (EDT)
> From: DCA Exclusive Commentary <press.africa at dotconnectafrica.org>
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> 07 August 2012
> Alice Munyau:
> Read ICANN's Guidebook First
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> Alice Munyua-Vice Chair, ICANN GAC
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> Alice Munyau: trying to legitimize a massive cover-up and Fraud
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> Misrepresenting a non-Community TLD application as the official AUC-sponsored .AFRICA gTLD application for the African Community
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> Please see below for reasons why this is not a misrepresentation, nor a fraud.
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> Alice - You should resign from any official government positions and all Committee posts that you presently occupy including the ICANN GAC
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> In the above YouTube Video interview at ICANN 44 Prague, Alice Munyau made the following statements which DCA transcribed after watching the video on YouTube:
> Alice by her own admission "I have not read the ICANN Applicant's Guidebook", i.e she has no truthful understanding of the ICANN new gTLD requirements, despite.
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> I am sure we have all (including Alice) read SOME of the Applicant Guidebook, but I doubt any of us have read it ALL. As part of the GAC and someone actively involved in the new gTLD program getting the go-ahead, I am sure that Alice has a better grasp of the new gTLD requirements than most people.
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> I believe the DCA reaction is a misrepresentation and a fraud, not the other way around!
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> Alice claims to be the Chairperson of the Kenyan Internet Governance Steering Committee under the Ministry of Information and Communications of the Republic of Kenya, and says "I have supported the DotAfrica application - the legitimate one".
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> This is factually correct, how is an assertion of fact a misrepresentation or distortion?
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> Alice also claims that her Ministry supported the application because, in her own words: "the new gTLD Guidebook requires that for a geographic string that you have community support - and in our case, this translates to the number of governments - 60 per cent of governments supporting that application, being a geographic name."
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> Also factually correct. the "community" of governements MUST, according to the guidebook support (or have no objection to) a continent wide gTLD.
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> I believe the DCA reaction is a misrepresentation and a fraud, not the other way around!
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> In attempting to explain further, Alice also mentioned that: "when it comes to applying for a geographic string or a geographic TLD, you have to have support from the community, and the community here actually translates into government, the Internet community, and other stakeholders."
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> Also true, see above. the "community" of African nations need to either support an application or give no objection to it.
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> Since DCA has not gotten this (in the latest round), I believe their application is doomed when it will be evaluated by ICANN.
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> Furthermore, Alice tried to explain why the African Union Commission application is "the legitimate one" in her own words: "because it is the only organization that brings together the African member states and that has the mandate to represent African member states in these matters, and so it is the only one we recognize as the legitimate one because our Ministers have actually written and supported that application through the African Union Commission. We were not approached by the other one, so we have no idea what the other one is about - and that is why it is quite clear to us which is the correct one."
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> Also factually true. The AU is the umbrella body of African nation states, and as such is the logical place to get approval (or non-objection) for a continent wide gTLD.
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> I believe the DCA reaction is a misrepresentation and a fraud, not the other way around!
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> Alice finally ended her ludicrous self-exposé interview by admitting that she has NOT looked at the Applicant Guidebook in detail.
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> First, DCA has done nothing for the last few years BUT ludicrous self-exposé interviews, so pot. kettle. black.
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> I believe the DCA reaction is a misrepresentation and a fraud, not the other way around!
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> Unforgivable Ignorance & Fallacious Claims and wrongly citing ICANN's Guidebook
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> none of the statements in the interview are ignorant, fallacious or citing the guidebook incorrectly, and so I consider the DCA reaction is a misrepresentation and a fraud, not the other way around!
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> Perhaps, Alice Munyau, you should have looked at the guidebook, before making your outlandish claims on a video that you have posted on Youtube. Chances are that "having not looked at the Guidebook in detail", you will be displaying palpable and unforgivable ignorance in trying to cite its provisions. Therefore, we believe that your fallacious claims should not go unanswered!
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> You have to assert correctly that claims are fallacious, you have not done so, and thus, I believe the DCA reaction is a misrepresentation and a fraud, not the other way around!
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> First, it is NOT stated anywhere in the ICANN Applicant's Guidebook that in applying for a geographic name, community support is required.
> You cannot confuse governmental support for community support. Community support is required only for a Community TLD application.
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> Are not a collection of governments a Community? I believe the EU was called the European Community not so long ago.
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> Second,NO actual application Community TLD application was legally submitted for .AFRICA. Therefore, since you have already tried to explain why support from the community is so crucial to an application for a geographic name, you shouldalso explain why "the government, the Internet community, and other stakeholders" that you have cited, failed to submit a Community TLD application for .AFRICAor why the so-called selected registry operator failed to submit a Community TLD application for .AFRICA on behalf of the African Community.
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> NO one but DCA is trying to assert (and DCA has asserted repeatedly) that the UniForum bid is a community gTLD. Repeating the assertion doesn't make it any more true than it was last time it was asserted.
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> Support from the community of nation states is essential according to the ICANN rules when applying for a gTLD that is continent wide, hence, I believe the DCA reaction is a misrepresentation and a fraud, not the other way around!
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> Third, if the African Union Commission, actually selected a registry operator to apply on behalf of the African Community, then you should have also tried to explain why NO Community TLD was actually submitted on behalf of the African Community.Therefore, you must nowcease
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