[AfrICANN-discuss] Breaking News: DotConnectAfrica Trust WinsResounding Victory against ICANN in IRP Accountability

[Vika Mpisane]

I am particularly impressed with this summation from EL¹s email:


"She needed support by 60% of African governments' at a certain point during
her Application, and she has all but admitted that she does not.  She asked
the panel to reset the clock and give her 18 (further) months to get those
who have not issued a letter of support (well before the deadline) to do so
now (well after deadline) and to convince of the large number of those who
did, by writing such letter in support of the other bid (well before
deadline), a significant number to withdraw and issue a new one (well after
deadline)."


Regards,

Vika Mpisane  |  ZADNA  |  +27 11 314 0077 ext. 602


From:  Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el at lisse.na>
Reply-To:  AfrICANN list <africann at afrinic.net>
Date:  Monday 20 July 2015 at 14:59
To:  AfrICANN list <africann at afrinic.net>
Subject:  Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Breaking News: DotConnectAfrica Trust
WinsResounding Victory against ICANN in IRP Accountability

Nobody has been prevented from reading the GAC Communique, the Board
Decisions and/or the documents filed in the case.

Nobody has been prevented from reading either applicant's side of the story,
though the sock-puppetry makes it difficult, I have to admit.

Nobody has been prevented from making up ones mind after and during the
above.


The issue is not one of Africans being denied "their" new gTLD, or even
worse, suffering during the denial, being forced to register somewhere else,
which is plain nonsense. And whether .AFRICA is important remains to be
seen, I am somewhat doubtful, personally.

The issue is one of ICANN, and its Board, and its Advisory Committee, and
its Staff having had handed parts of their anatomy to them, because of the
way they have been dealing with an Applicant, unfairly in the case of the
Board, non-transparently and non-objectively (at least) by the GAC, and with
staggering arrogance by staff.

As the other half of Team Caucasian (remember, sock-puppy famously pointed
to an image of my family on my web site (could be that she wanted to imply
that I had gone to some length hiding that I was a racist, but probably she
was just tired and emotional again)) I am the last person on earth wanting
her to get .AFRICA, but every Application must treated fairly and on its
merits.

Of which they are NONE in sock-puppy's Application:

She needed support by 60% of African governments' at a certain point during
her Application, and she has all but admitted that she does not.  She asked
the panel to reset the clock and give her 18 (further) months to get those
who have not issued a letter of support (well before the deadline) to do so
now (well after deadline) and to convince of the large number of those who
did, by writing such letter in support of the other bid (well before
deadline), a significant number to withdraw and issue a new one (well after
deadline).

The panel's members did not have to be as eminent as they are to see through
such an idiotic request.


As stated here before, I have been appointed by the chartering ccNSO to the
CCWG Accountability, where I feel I should look out for the interests of
smaller ccTLDs, in particular African ones, even if lethargy is only
surpassed by naiveté here and this is not directly a ccTLD Issue.

This (multi-year commitment to significant workload) puts me at least in a
position to be able to raise the underlying causes identified by the IRP
panel within ICANN in a forum which at least has some small form of
leverage. 

I doubt we can ever get staff to behave any better than sock-puppy, but I
remain somewhat confident that we can make the GAC become more transparent
if not more objective, it is after all a Committee of ICANN, giving advice
to the Board, and not a multilateral treaty organization appointing the
Board. I am more confident in making the Board behave a little fairer and
more diligently. 

That will also help the smaller ccTLDs who are being railroaded in a similar
manner.


I must repeat myself, nobody has been prevented from participating in the
CCWG Accountability.

All the hyperventilating here is fun, but has not consequences.

el
-- 
Sent from Dr Lisse's iPad mini

On Jul 17, 2015, at 19:08, Mwendwa Kivuva <Kivuva at transworldafrica.com>
wrote:

> Thank you Seun,
> 
>  The community is caught in between not really knowing what is happening.  We
> are left to make judgement from the many news articles and blogs written by
> either independed or partisan interests.
> 
> We have a saying in Swahili "fahali wawili wanapopigana, ni nyasi huumia".
> Loosely translated as "When two bulls fight, its the grass that suffers". In
> this case, the community is missing out in use of the important .africa
> string. For example,  the East African community is forced to use eac.int
> <http://eac.int>  while eac.africa would have sufficed. Of course there are
> other examples like ecowas.africa comesa.africa sadc.africa e.t.c.
> 
> I think we should be every firm in castigating ICANN for not following due
> diligence in the .africa application. The transparency and accountability
> track should ensure there are mechanisms in place to avoid the scenario we are
> in from occurring again. The  bill of the IRP process which is in excess of US
> $ 606,114 could have been put into better use.
> 
> Regards 
> 
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