Hello Africans,<div><br></div><div>I think we are getting somewhere now. <br><br>How comes no one knows anything about <.africa> issues in the past? </div><div><br></div><div>Can we accurate please? That will be the misleading information that I had mentioned to Rebecca. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I know and remember that the issue of <.africa> did not come up and should not have been considered by ccTLD (ccNSO) constituent since there is and was gTLD Constituent which was responsible for that issue. </div>
<div><br></div><div>May I suggest that we provide accurate information please? If one does not know - just say so please - the issues was beyond your mandate. Fellow Africans, let us be professional by giving accurate information to the journalist please! No room for anything else but a True Story...</div>
<div><br></div><div>May I request this to apply in everything we communicate? It is impossible one to know everything....or it is?</div><div><br></div><div>That is all for now on this</div><div><br></div><div>Yassin (Neutral and 24/7 for Africa!!)</div>
<div><br></div><div> <br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 July 2012 12:19, Calvin Browne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:calvin@orange-tree.alt.za" target="_blank">calvin@orange-tree.alt.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 02/07/2012 13:10, Calvin Browne wrote:<br>
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On 28/06/2012 13:24, Dandjinou Pierre wrote:<br>
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Rebecca,<br>
<br>
Good you are writing the history of .Africa<br>
<br>
To my knowledge, there has not been any application for the .Africa<br>
string, apart from those we now have with the new gTLD programme.<br>
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There was an actual application in one of the previous rounds. The applicant even paid a fee, but never came to present.<br>
<br>
I personally helped to pen the GAC' s opposition statement to this application. This statement was, if memory serves me right, actually adopted by the Country Code TLD Registry Constituency, as it was then known, largely intact.<br>
<br>
Herewith the application list concerned:<br>
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<a href="http://archive.icann.org/en/tlds/tld-applications-lodged-02oct00.htm" target="_blank">http://archive.icann.org/en/<u></u>tlds/tld-applications-lodged-<u></u>02oct00.htm</a><br>
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regards<br>
<br>
--Calvin<br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
>From <br>
</blockquote>
<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/scribe-icann-111500.html" target="_blank">http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/<u></u>icann/la2000/archive/scribe-<u></u>icann-111500.html</a> - the cc's report was summarised (Ben Edelmann had a habit of summing up what was actually said) as "African ICANN participants: Urge vigilance when delegating regional TLDs, especially regions without a developed Internet community. "<br>
<br>
Also:<br>
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<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/scribe-icann-111400.html" target="_blank">http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/<u></u>icann/la2000/archive/scribe-<u></u>icann-111400.html</a><br>
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"<br>
C. ccTLD Constituency: Past 2 days with over 40 ccTLDs present, got substantial and sometimes unanimous consensus on 4 items. Materials at <a href="http://www.wwtld.org" target="_blank">http://www.wwtld.org</a> .<br>
1. Contract for services between ccTLDs and ICANN.<br>
2. Discussed �best practice� document. Further discussion at 10:30.<br>
3. Object to regional geographic names for new TLDs (�.africa�).<br>
"<br>
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Seems even the ISP constituency got on board:<br>
<br>
"<br>
D. ISP Constituency: Tony Harris presenting.<br>
<SNIP><br>
4. New gTLDs: Aware of concerns about .africa. Advise careful and deliberate rollout of new TLDs to cope with land rush problems. Concerned that review may have been biased. Expenses of process should be made public.<br>
"<br>
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I can't find the GAC's letter - they had a habit of storing it on a separate server.<br>
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regards<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
--Calvin</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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