Hi,<div><br></div><div>I think the presentation was not targeting the SMEs in the Internet-based businesses - in smoother words: it did not consider all scenarios e.g. the situation of the growing African market.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Or did it? <br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/13 Calvin Browne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:calvin@orange-tree.alt.za">calvin@orange-tree.alt.za</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 09:42 +0300, McTim wrote:<br>
> hi,<br>
><br>
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Abulkhirat Esam<br>
> <<a href="mailto:AbulkhiratE@africa-union.org">AbulkhiratE@africa-union.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Dear colleagues,<br>
> ><br>
> > This is a presentation (link below) made at last week's RIPE meeting by a<br>
> > representative of Autonomica, one of the root server operators. It seems to<br>
> > expresses some serious concerns from a stability perspective about ICANN's<br>
> > plan to effectively allow unrestricted growth in the root zone file in the<br>
> > context of new gTLDs.<br>
><br>
> I share those concerns, but am confident the financial barrier will<br>
> mean very low uptake.<br>
<br>
</div>the proposed financial barrier (while maybe high in developing<br>
countries) are imho quite small. I think I could easily get a dozen<br>
South African companies interested without doing too much of a marketing<br>
pitch...<br>
<br>
regards<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
--Calvin<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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