Dear all of us,<br><br>I, as part of the African community is very concerned about what this discussion is heading to - concession and clarity is all is needed here otherwise a door will be open for a dispute even before the Dot Africa comes into being.
<br><br>It seems that the debate is now becoming personal at the expense of the community. <br><br>I can see from the angle I am looking at this issue that there is a danger of diluting the role that the representatives of African community in this activity. It is obvious that most of the activities are carried out voluntarily and some of the roles holders are paid for sponsoring organisations or governments or their businesses. In that case, stakeholder-ship may be polarised by the perceived benefits. We have to build a foundation for transparency and accountability;but this may just be a dream if there are internal forces that may work against what needs to be achieved for the benefit of the society or community whichever case.
<br><br>The Internet phenomenon is changing this world rapidly more than any other evolution or revolution that happened to in the human history - it is a technological invention will benefit all concerned - the challenge is to balance profit and the social responsibility that comes with it........?
<br><br>The saga that is about to emerge about this Dot Africa can be a recipe for undesirable stumbling block that the community or Society would not wish to be affected by.<br><br>That is my observation and a request for a resolution at a pre-saga stage of this process.
<br><br>Positive representation of the African community is a role not a choice nor is it a personal action - otherwise a slippery slope is the reward to which Africans would not like to be pulled or pushed to.....<br><br>
Cheers<br><br>Yassin<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 17/11/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">support</b> <<a href="mailto:support.dotafrica@gmail.com">support.dotafrica@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>Adiel</div>
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<div><font color="#3333ff">Your response sounds like political babble, contradictory </font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">and inflammatory.</font></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">1) AfriNIC has not chosen to make anything public. All mailing <br> has what is called "achieves" which are publicly available
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<div><font color="#3333ff">This statement is contradictory. I do not see the </font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">point of obscuring the thread, while all of the email thread </font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">should be transparent.</font></div><span class="q">
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<div>for anyone. AfriNIC hosts several mailing lists among which <a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">africann@afrinic.net</a>. </div>
<div> See: <a href="http://www.afrinic.net/mailinglist.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.afrinic.net/mailinglist.htm</a> for details<br><br>2) I will really advise you to refrain your constant agitation on
<br> this list about dotAfrica.</div>
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<div><font color="#3333ff">I do not appreciate </font><font color="#3333ff">the petty threat implied by your statement. </font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">The information I </font><font color="#3333ff">have conveyed regarding the .Africa so far on this </font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">list has been </font><font color="#3333ff">informative, providing status updates and my comments </font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">have had </font><font color="#3333ff">consistent positive responses. </font> </div>
<div><font color="#3333ff"></font> </div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">It was my understanding that Afrinic was brought in to provide a</font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">democratic and not fascist platform to bully individuals who do not </font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">comply with Afrinic's edict.</font></div><span class="q">
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<div align="left"> I don't personally see any initiative</div>
<div align="left"> around ".Africa" which can succeed in margin of the bottom up <br> and transparent approach which are principles that this community<br> is build on. <br> </div></blockquote></div></span>
<div><font color="#3333ff">I am surprised to learn that you have 'this community' that owns </font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">the AFRICAN continent. Some of us work to be inclusive and not divisive. </font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">I</font><font color="#3333ff">t is my opinion that cooperation and not competition is the formula required</font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">for success in Africa; based on </font><font color="#3333ff">truth, justice and democracy.</font></div>
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<div><font color="#3333ff">I am part of the African community, if you do not wish to cooperate, then all </font></div>
<div><font color="#3333ff">is fair in love and war, may the best initiative win! </font></div></font></div>
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<div><font color="#3333ff">rdgs</font></div>
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<div><br>thanks.<br>- a. </div>
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<div><span><br><br>At 15:10 16/11/2007 -0800, Sophia B wrote:<br><br><br></span></div>
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<h2><font size="2"><b>Dear Anna Richel, AfriNic </b></font></h2><br><br>Someone brought the posting below to my attention. <br><br>I believe 'Afrinic' was chose as a platform for discussions associated with the creation of the Afri-ICANN group which I was also instrumental in pushing for the set up when I joined GNSO/ICANN and we are all benefiting from these discussions.
<br><br>Given the debates we had on dot.africa the past few weeks, I was not sure why Afrinic has chosen to be selective in optimizing the information below to be posted on the Internet rather than post the whole discussion to ensure the various responses are fairly represented. It would appear that Afrinic is opportunistic and exploitative and I give it a reasonable double that the intention is not that.
<br><br>I would therefore, appreciate if Afrinic would take immediate steps to make the correction.<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Sophia<br><br>
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