[AfrICANN-discuss] Good Bye .DOTAFRICA: A Significant Landmark Victory in the Battle for .Africa gTLD

[Ben Fuller]

Badru,

This is my point exactly.  I've seen many a tender rejected for not following the directions. This is a worrying statement about the competence at DCA. 

ICANN is probably trying to be fair. But, it does allow a judgement on the merits of their proposal.

Ben

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On Nov 3, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Badru Ntege <badru.ntege at nftconsult.com> wrote:

> Ben
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> In the business world this would be good ground to reject a tender proposal regardless of how good the financial proposal looked.  Infact we would not even get to Openning the financial proposal envelope.
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> But then again Maybe there was justifiable reason.  Still waiting anxiously for reasoning behind decision.  
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> Hoping to learn something or two :-)
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> Regards
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> Badru Ntege
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> On 3 Nov 2012, at 09:39, "Ben Fuller" <abutiben at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I agree with Nii. I teach at a local university and have a 40 year track record of successful research and other funding applications. In one of my classes where I teach about funding and project applications I refer time and time again to the fact that you have to read the directions before you submit an application. This is basic.  Clearly the DCA Trust did not do this and has had to wage a campaign of dubious ethics to rectify their massive screw up. 
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>> Now that they have "won" because ICANN has been generous in allowing them to correct an unforgivable mistake, let's concentrate on the real issue: Are they competent to manage a key piece of Internet infrastructure on behalf of the continent? If they get the basics of the application wrong, what about reading and understanding the RFCs? Or the help files for BIND/DNSSEC etc? Based on what I have seen thus far, the answer is a resounding "No."
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>> Ben
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>> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Nii Narku Quaynor <quaynor at ghana.com> wrote:
>>> You should be embarrassed? 
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>>> If can't get the simple things right (choice of string) then what can one expect from an RO?
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>>> On Nov 2, 2012, at 17:15, Pierre Lotis NANKEP <lnankep at yahoo.fr> wrote:
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>>>> Good Bye .DOTAFRICA: A Significant Landmark Victory in the Battle for .Africa gTLD
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