[AfrICANN-discuss] AFRALO-African meeting at ICANN75

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

And I had so hoped he had gone away.

el
On 25. Sep 2022, 17:23 +0200, Y Mshana <ymshana2003 at gmail.com>, wrote:
> Oh no! Not again after all those years..
> 🤯
>
> > 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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