<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Dear all,<br><br>Here are a couple of suggestions to help move things along. First, the NTIA Web site indicates that the comments have not been coming in a flood (<a href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/comments/2009/dnstransition/index.html">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/comments/2009/dnstransition/index.html</a>). Furthermore, anyone (individual or group) can send their comments.<br><br>Second, I suggest someone draft a position (for any or all of the Afri* group, and maybe use Nii's suggestions as a starting point) and people can then discuss and finalize that for submission. Please note that the deadline for the submission of comments is in a few days time, June 8, to be exact (<a
href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/OIA_ICANNJPA_090427.html">http://www.ntia.doc.gov/press/2009/OIA_ICANNJPA_090427.html</a>). So Makane Faye's suggestion for a meeting in Addis in July or Sept. might not help here. You might want to, in formulating your comments, use a format similar to that used by InternetNZ when they submitted their comments on the mid-term review of the JPA (<a href="http://www.internetnz.net.nz/issues/submissions/archive/2008/icann-jpa-sub/view">http://www.internetnz.net.nz/issues/submissions/archive/2008/icann-jpa-sub/view</a>).<br><br>I hope this helps.<br><br>Katim <br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Nii Quaynor <quaynor@ghana.com><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> africann@afrinic.net<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, June 2, 2009 8:51:03 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Re: AfrICANN Digest, Vol 28, Issue 3<br></font><br>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Pierre,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I, for sure, will have a personal opinion
expressed publicly</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">However, we can do some work here on
AfrICANN list:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">o has ICANN MOU relationship with DoC provided
useful guidance over the years?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">o has ICANN successfully accounted to its community
in open and transparent way throughout its series of MOUs with DoC</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">o has the Internet remained stable and growing
during tenure of ICANN services?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">o has bottomup multistakeholder processes at
ICANN been effective?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">o has ICANN demonstrated maturity and is able to
remain accountable to the community?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">o continuation of JPA as is or not?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">These are some questions that we can answer to make
an AfrICANN submission simpler. What we have consensus on may become a
submission. Any takers?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Nii<br><br></font></div>
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