[AfrICANN-discuss] AfriCANN/AFRALO session ICANN 75 session 2022-09-21 (was The Africa Domain Name System Forum Awards Call for nominations)

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Apologies for the incorrect Subject line.

el

On 2022-09-22 22:57 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> Some thoughts on the session:
> 
> 	Basically most of the session time was wasted with
> 	approximately 10 addresses by the usual suspects all of which
> 	had the same content, namely exactly zero.
> 
> 	This is not new, it has been unchanged approximately since I
> 	have attended the first meeting many years ago.
> 
> 	The only exception was Alan Barrett who then however faced
> 	headwind for making the practical and good suggestion of
> 	clients to engage their providers if and when these do not
> 	provide Universal Access.
> 
> 	Several speakers (in particular the (outgoing African) Board
> 	Members who should have ample opportunity to actually do
> 	something about it (but NEVER do)) pontificated about how
> 	important it would be to have ICANN Meetings in Africa.
> 
> 	While I am all in favor of that, in particular in Namibia, the
> 	Chair wasted the opportunity to engage ICANN's CEO on this,
> 	which had to be done by Sébastien Bachollet and even in
> 	English, pointing out that one of the reasons to create the
> 	smaller ICANN (policy) meetings was to have reduced
> 	requirements in oder to be able to hold meetings in developing
> 	countries.
> 
> 	Of course he was fobbed off, and, in a manner which I consider
> 	bordering the line of ICANN's Standards of Acceptable
> 	Behavior.
> 
> 	The point is not that we need to have meetings in all ICANN
> 	regions and in particular in Africa, which we do, and we all
> 	know that, the question is why ICANN is not doing it or
> 	anything about it?
> 
> 	Well, I think, this is because the "paying" stakeholders do
> 	not wish to meet in less than 5 star environments close to
> 	major airports, let alone transit.
> 
> 	This US-centricity which is patently obvious in so many ICANN
> 	aspects is, in my view, not compatible with the multi
> 	stakeholder model.
> 
> 	Fortunately there was no time to review or even debate the
> 	"statement", which mostly nobody reads, but most certainly is
> 	never acted upon.
> 
> greetings, el

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