[AfrICANN-discuss] Help with .africa history

[Dr Yassin Mshana]

Hello Africans,

I think we are getting somewhere now.

How comes no one knows anything about <.africa> issues in the past?

Can we accurate please? That will be the misleading information that I had
mentioned to Rebecca.

I know and remember that the issue of <.africa> did not come up and should
not have been considered by ccTLD (ccNSO) constituent since there is and
was gTLD Constituent which was responsible for that issue.

May I suggest that we provide accurate information please? If one does not
know - just say so please - the issues was beyond your mandate. Fellow
Africans, let us be professional by giving accurate information to the
journalist please! No room for anything else but a True Story...

May I request this to apply in everything we communicate?  It is impossible
one to know everything....or it is?

That is all for now on this

Yassin (Neutral and 24/7 for Africa!!)


On 2 July 2012 12:19, Calvin Browne <calvin at orange-tree.alt.za> wrote:

> On 02/07/2012 13:10, Calvin Browne wrote:
>
>> On 28/06/2012 13:24, Dandjinou Pierre wrote:
>>
>>> Rebecca,
>>>
>>> Good you are writing the history of .Africa
>>>
>>> To my knowledge, there has not been any application for the .Africa
>>> string, apart from those we now have with the new gTLD programme.
>>>
>>
>> There was an actual application in one of the previous rounds. The
>> applicant even paid a fee, but never came to present.
>>
>> I personally helped to pen the GAC' s opposition statement to this
>> application. This statement was, if memory serves me right, actually
>> adopted by the Country Code TLD Registry Constituency, as it was then
>> known, largely intact.
>>
>> Herewith the application list concerned:
>>
>> http://archive.icann.org/en/**tlds/tld-applications-lodged-**02oct00.htm<http://archive.icann.org/en/tlds/tld-applications-lodged-02oct00.htm>
>>
>> regards
>>
>> --Calvin
>>
>
>  From
>>
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/**icann/la2000/archive/scribe-**
> icann-111500.html<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/scribe-icann-111500.html>- the cc's report was summarised (Ben Edelmann had a habit of summing up
> what was actually said) as "African ICANN participants: Urge vigilance when
> delegating regional TLDs, especially regions without a developed Internet
> community. "
>
> Also:
>
> http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/**icann/la2000/archive/scribe-**
> icann-111400.html<http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/scribe-icann-111400.html>
>
> "
> C. ccTLD Constituency: Past 2 days with over 40 ccTLDs present, got
> substantial and sometimes unanimous consensus on 4 items. Materials at
> http://www.wwtld.org .
> 1. Contract for services between ccTLDs and ICANN.
> 2. Discussed �best practice� document. Further discussion at 10:30.
> 3. Object to regional geographic names for new TLDs (�.africa�).
> "
>
> Seems even the ISP constituency got on board:
>
> "
> D. ISP Constituency: Tony Harris presenting.
> <SNIP>
> 4. New gTLDs: Aware of concerns about .africa. Advise careful and
> deliberate rollout of new TLDs to cope with land rush problems. Concerned
> that review may have been biased. Expenses of process should be made public.
> "
>
> I can't find the GAC's letter - they had a habit of storing it on a
> separate server.
>
> regards
>
> --Calvin
>
>
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