[AfrICANN-discuss] The Africa Domain Name System Forum Awards Call for nominations

[Y Mshana]

Oh no! Not again after all those years..
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On Thu, 22 Sep 2022, 15:59 Dr Eberhard W Lisse, <el at lisse.na> 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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