Dear all---allow me to intrude on your time, but I am in between
transatlantic flights pressed for time and so I had to make this TYPO
corrections and few additions that are highlighted.<br>
warm regards,<br>
sophia<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Sophia B</b> <<a href="mailto:sophiabekele@gmail.com">sophiabekele@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Dear Pierre -</div>
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<div>Yes, I approached you at the Lisbon meeting and shared <span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">MY</span> </span>presentation ahead of time and your took note of<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">
OUR 'governance structure' </span>and said that was what was missing in your
proposals. I suppose that one you have not fully developed
yet.
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<div>I am surprised that you have never heard of what I was doing based
on that, and when you have yourself announced at the Afri-ICANN
meeting that there were two initiatives on the ground and for lack of
time, I cannot <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">PRESENT </span>mine. I believe there were over 15
people in the room. </div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">ADDITIONALLY,
I SENT AN UPDATE ON THE STATUS ON THE DOTAFRICA PROJECT A COUPLE OF
MONTHS AGO FOR THIS SAME LISTING HERE WHEN ASKED BY ONE OF OUR LIST
MEMBERS WHO IS ALSO AWARE THAT I HAVE PUT EFFORTS ON IT.<br>
</span></div></blockquote><div><br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>I am glad to note that the discussion is generating a lot of
interest finally from everyone. It appears you folks were
sleeping on it and seem to get caught up now.</div>
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<div>While I have appreciated the model you discussed , I did not
feel it has the strength, so I suggested my own. It is a free
world we live in right! This does not mean I am <font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">NOT
</font> willing to work with you. We just have to agree to disagree. Like I said the project is for Africa.</div></blockquote><div><br>
Hope that clarifies any misunderstanding.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><span class="sg"><div>Sophia </div></span>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 23/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pierre Dandjinou</b> <<a href="mailto:dandjinou.pierre@undp.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">dandjinou.pierre@undp.org
</a>> wrote:</span>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Hi Sophia,</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Thanks for providing these answers to Vika's questions.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Good
to know you are progressing on the dot Africa, but a bit tricky that
some of us whom you approached some time ago, no longer heard of this,
especially when you were told that the AF* (Afnog, Afrinic, Aftlds,
Afren,Aftld..) have been working on a dot Africa model. You were asked
to join forces and avoid duplication and you promised!
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">It
is fine to respond that the dot Africa is (will be?) owned by the
African people, but one should go beyond this response and present a
business model..which speaks for itself. </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Best regards</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Pierre Dandjinou</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Chair, Afrinic Board</span></font></p>
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