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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hi Pierre D,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Good move this is: you did well to try
& gather together the views expressed in the AfrICANN list.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am overall content with this summary,
noting that the wording is quite diplomatic as well. I would however have liked
to see the those 5 key questions to which we individually applied our minds being
listed in the submission after the first sentence that reads: “</span></font>In
a view to provide comments which reflect the general views of the <st1:place
w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> region on the termination of the JPA agreement…”<font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>In that way it will become clear what the key
questions were that we had to answer.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’ve noted Paulos & Yassin’s
“flowery” concerns, but as a person who’s only glad he was
not around this space at the time of the WSIS event (</span></font><font
size=2 color=navy face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>), I cannot respond to
those concerns. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>My personal view still stands that after
the JPA, ICANN needs to be independent from the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region> DoC & we need to find
another structure to which ICANN should account. Whether it’s an
international tribunal as somebody has called it within the EU, I don’t
know. I’m keeping my mind open to various scenarios. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>One thing I will not comfortable with is
to see ICANN not accounting to anyone or to see it accounting to what is called
the “ICANN community” because good as the community concept is for
the bottom-up policy & technical development processes, my personal view is
that it (the ICANN community concept) is still filled with uncertainties &
duplications, which in the long run are likely to become self-defeating &
only self-interest serving.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Vika Mpisane</span></font></b></strong><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>.za Domain Name Authority<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
africann-bounces@afrinic.net [mailto:africann-bounces@afrinic.net] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Dandjinou Pierre<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, June 06, 2009
12:38 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> africann@afrinic.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss]
Re: AfrICANN Digest, Vol 28, Issue 3</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dear All,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> Following the responses to the series of questions ,
we now need to conclude. I am therefore proposing the following text
for your perusal and review. feel free to amend as English is not my mother
tongue; Also, bear in mind we should be sending this to the NTIA by the 7th
June.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Finally, this text which is meant to represent the views of
members of this discussion list does not prevent us from sending any individual
comments as a response to the NOI..<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Pierre D</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Helvetica><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>The Africa ICANN Discussion List
members provide the following comments in response to the National
Telecommunications and Information Administration Notice of Inquiry
“Assessment of the Transition of the Technical Coordination and
Management of the Internet's Domain Name and Addressing System [Docket No.
090420688-9689-01].”</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In a view to provide comments which reflect the general views of the
Africa region on the termination of the JPA agreement and thereof a final
report on the DNS project, members of the Africann list , a discussion list for
Africans who are interested in Icann’s matters , organized an
online brain storming session. The Group is now happy to submit its
deliberations to the National Telecommunication Agency (NTIA). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>According to ICANN's mission statement, it coordinates
the allocation and assignment of the three sets of unique identifiers for the
Internet, which are: Domain names; Internet protocol addresses and
Autonomous system numbers; Protocol port and parameter numbers. </span>After
its 11 years of existence, ICANN has served as the testbed for many initiatives
that have come to make the Internet an ever growing space for communication and
knowledge sharing. The <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place> region is
particularly marked by the new developments which ICANN has generated in its
core business of DNS and IP address management. Thus, the bottom up approach to
policy development, the constant search for transparency and accountability
constitute the overarching features which ICANN has struggled for since 1998.
Indeed, since then, the successive MoUs which have delineated ICANN’s
perimeter have provided an outlet for an experiment which spans diverse issues
and cross sector relationships. <o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>In performing its function as the custodian and coordinator of those
critical resources that are domain names and IP addresses, ICANN has constantly
striven to be open, transparent and accountable. The JPA and the subsequent
MoUs have certainly provided the framework for this coordination which has now
given its global and international nature to ICANN. While the Africa
region benefitted from the ICANN’s experience in many ways, including the
development of the African Internetworking groups and associations and the
growing participation to Icann’s policy development processes, Africa
would like to recall that Internet being a global goods, its sound and
effective coordination should continue to be operated along those criterion and
procedures that have given to the Internet its stability and secure operation. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The ICANN’s experiment has proven to be a success in many ways
including capacity development and cross fertilization of ideas and knowledge.
Its bylaws and </span></font><span lang=EN-GB>internal mechanisms have ensured
over the year more transparency and accountability which portray ICANN as an
experiment in global self governance which could be replicated in other
institutional formulas.</span> Therefore, termination of the JPA will only
reinforce its credibility at the global level. There is always room for
improvement and the termination of the JPA and the end of the DNS project will
only give ICANN its full dimension and potential as a global and international
and multistakeholder institution within its restricted mission of coordinating
the critical resources of the Internet. One such room for improvement should be
the role to be played by governments in the specific layout of ICANN which
guarantee both openness , inclusiveness and freedom within the larger context
of the global Internet governance.<o:p></o:p></p>
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