[AfrICANN-discuss] .africa the saga continues

[Badru Ntege]

Lerato

If you read the next paragraph  my gutt feeling is that the DCA bid might be the one on the loosing side.  I did not explicitly say it was I just pointed to some indicators that might lead to that outcome and thus suggested a position that might be mutually beneficial to DCA and the community.  And yes my efforts on this list have no financial benefit at all apart from the hope that  I contribute positively to the community.

Now when one genuinely wants to contribute to the community and not to their private and personal victory they are prepared to take a third alternative which generates a win win position.

Your posting are win or everybody looses.  That to me is wrong.  It seems like you against the community and when they do not agree with you they are misled.  

I honestly urge you to reconsider your position.  Like us or hate us we are the community.  Some of our leaders on the continent have taken similar stands in the past and we have a name for them.  

As hard as it might seem let's find a way to unify this and bring closure to the animosity.  

I know this is a long shot but I'm naturally an optimist. 

Or by the way I'm no expert just a member of the list with the ability to read write and have an opinion not based on technicalities but basic common sense.  This list has enough experts.

Regards




On 1 Dec 2012, at 13:43, "Lerato" <lerato.ma at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Badru-
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>               However unless we can read tea leaves we have no idea what ICANN will decide.
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>               If I were DCA I would humbly withdraw from this race and join hands with the rest of the continent to see how we can make the most of the .africa resource.   
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>             I would like to hear more on this list 
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> It is well known that your group does not want DCA to participate in .africa from yesteryears.   However, how contradictory are all your statements.  On one side, you say ICANN should decide, on another you try to influence the list on DCA's lack of support and thus withdrawal and even go as far as soliciting a vote on this list , as if the winner will be determined by your usual community calls? and what is the purpose of this solicitation?  to summit a vote of confident to ICANN Board or CEO and say your usual rhetoric of this is what the community wants, to a non-community application you have applied for? 
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> I also say yes, all those governments have no clue of DCA bid or rather ill advised. Why should any of the governments show bias and support to one bidder over another?   Is DCA not not running the same .africa or someone managed to confused them with .dotarica?  DCA did not violate any national law and public policy, so I see no reason why the governments should have a problem with its bid.  Governments should not block competition.
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> Finally, all these expert advise coming from a guy who has no clue that .dotafrica and the .africa are applied from the same string and categorically was calling the finals of the .africa winner?   
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> I suggest that those who withdraw should be one that have the wrong opinions about DCA including you and the governments your bid have managed to confuse.!
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> I hope this helps.
> --Lerato  Ma-
> From: Badru Ntege <badru.ntege at nftconsult.com>
> To: africann at afrinic.net 
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 10:24 PM
> Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] .africa the saga continues
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> 
> Logic tells me we subscribed to the rules of the game and applied.  Early scores could be translated that one side could have played the wrong team.  However unless we can read tea leaves we have no idea what ICANN will decide.  
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> On the other side we all have our gutt feeling and many believe they could have backed the right team.  I see no reason for us to now start accusing those who practiced their choice to object or not to as I'll informed.  
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> At the end of the day one winner will emerge and that winner will be working for the entire continent I find it hard for a potential winner to think 18 governments that they plan to be working with are so clueless that they could be hoodwinked into writing a document they did not want to.  This even gets more hard to understand when the supposed host government also writes to object.  
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> It is time for humility Let's agree that one team will win this bid and see how we can collectively contribute.  
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> If I were DCA I would humbly withdraw from this race and join hands with the rest of the continent to see how we can make the most of the .africa resource.  
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> Times have changed, there is so much to benefit and equally so much to loose.  
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> Let's end this now.  
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> I would like to hear more on this list 
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> Badru Ntege
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