Dear Moderator,<div><br></div><div>It seems that there might be something to do with posts from Ms Bekele.....</div><div><br></div><div>Why was the email below not seen by others? I know that the issued of Application for <.africa> had gone shamefully too far to keep quiet about - that s why I kept posting 'warnings' about it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Now, what does the communication below tell us? The email was not posted - why? I wonder - is it because of Content or its Source? I received a complaint as a fellow African and the best i could do is to post it - immediately!</div>
<div><br></div><div>That is all for now on this</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards</div><div><br></div><div>Yassin (Always for Africa!!) <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Sophia Bekele</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sophiabekele@yahoo.com">sophiabekele@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
Date: 25 July 2012 20:39<br>Subject: Fw: [AfrICANN-discuss] Help with .africa history<br>To: "Dr. Yassin Mshana" <<a href="mailto:ymshana2003@gmail.com">ymshana2003@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif">
<div><span><br></span></div><div> Dr. Yassin-</div><div><br></div><div>The other email also that was not posted is this one.</div><div>Thank you for your help.</div><div class="im"><div><font size="1"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"></font></font></div>
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<span></span><span style="font-size:8pt"><span style="font-style:italic">With best wishes,</span></span><span style="font-size:8pt"><br></span><font size="1"><font size="4" color="#000000" face="times new roman, new york, times, serif"><font size="5" color="#800000" face="garamond, new york, times, serif"><i>Sophia </i></font></font></font><span style="font-size:8pt"><br>
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<div style="font-family:'times new roman','new york',times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div class="im"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Sophia Bekele <<a href="mailto:sophiabekele@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sophiabekele@yahoo.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> "<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank">africann@afrinic.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank">africann@afrinic.net</a>> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 4, 2012
4:24 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Help with .africa history<br> </font> </div> <br>
</div><div><div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif"><div class="im"><blockquote style="font-family:tahoma,times,serif;font-size:10pt;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">
<div><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:tahoma,'new york',times,serif"><div><span><div style="font-family:tahoma,times,serif;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:13px"><b><span style="color:rgb(69,69,69);background-color:yellow">Well - you're welcome to believe a woman who
arrived half
way on the scene, and implemented a business plan which I outlined to her in a
lunch meeting in São Paulo in 2006, and subsequently claimed the idea as her
own.</span></b></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><div><span>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="color:#454545"><br>
</span><div><div class="h5">Did you really say the above Calvin or is
this in my dreams<span style="color:white">? </span><span style>What is the intended objective of
your blatant lie? Could you please let everyone know why you are
engaging in this blatant misrepresentation and distortion of facts? Which
business plan did you outline for me? Do you think that this will gain you any
credibility over the .AFRICA string? First, for engaging in this deliberate
distortion and changing the subject matter of the discussion
thread, you should be ashamed of yourself . Also, I am very much
incensed by your sexist remarks. You simply have no respect for women, and you
should be taken to task for your 'sexist comment'. I hereby demand a
retraction and outright apology for your
offensive statements. Moreover, your facts are incorrect. I
never discussed a business plan of .africa with you at Sao Paulo, so you are very much mistaken in
your recollections.</span></div></div></span></div><div><div class="h5">
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="background:white">Therefore, I believe that it is
important to set the records straight regarding the history of .Africa.</span><span style="background:white"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px">You had no clue what to do with .africa at the
time or may I say even now, even if one bangs your head on it. I remember quite vividly that it was in South
Africa that we met on my way to Plettenburg Bay for vacation and we discussed
and exchanged views on the project. I
recall meeting you over lunch and I drafted for you the possible organizational
model that could be adopted for the project and I simply shared what
.asia had done that I was privy to during my discussions at gNSO. I
came to know and consulted with .asia and the .LAT
group because I worked with them on gTLD PDP while
I was appointed by ICANN to the gNSO. May I remind that I was the only
African on that council that had been very much involved in the gTLD
subject matters. Obviously the whole idea came to me while I
was serving on the council with my counterparts of .asia and .LAT,
and I simply asked why is .africa not
yet done?. I am not sure why everyone has tried to
'politicize' the entire project initiation. I simply wanted to contribute
towards Africa's ICT development during my term at ICANN. I knew of .africa in
the course of my work at ICANN, and even though the idea for the string had
existed a few years before, it seemed to be an abandoned or orphaned project
which had to be resuscitated and given a new lease of life. This is what I
consider to be DCA's most important contribution to .Africa and not your
outrageous and unsubstantiated claims about a non-existent business plan.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style><br><span><span style="font-size:13px">
I also recall making complaints about the loose African grouping that was in
place, and that not much was being discussed about African issues and we
needed a formal grouping; I simply wanted
to learn what had happened in the past before my involvement as well as discuss pertinent issue s to Africa.
The intent was not to criticize anybody,
however, I recall being misunderstood all the same. Is this not why we are brought in from the outside?</span></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"><br>
It may be very unfortunate, but my knowledge sharing and ideas for
.africa really came from my networking with the above two groups, namely .asia and .lat and serving on
gNSO think tank. It could not have come from any of you as you have never
even tackled the issues except that you talked about it and when you saw I was
interested in it. Despite Pierre’s claim of me copying his inept
proposal, I was the one to present mine in Lisbon AfriICANN meeting and I even
shared with most of you who were there on the corridors, as Pierre came and
snooped thru and said ” ha I see the governance model you have, that was the
only thing missing from ours”. Then he blocked my presentation in the
meeting as he was chairing it, saying time has run out and he proposed his own
initiative that same evening which included a governance chart and sent a copy
to me as if it were his own. I immediately reported this incident to the
African Board of Directors at the time via email, and I recall even writing to
NiiQuaynor stating what happened
but with no response. I again mentioned to Nii when I saw him in Kigali
for some other meeting. This is the honest truth and I have everyone’s email I
sent at the time. This was the incident that caused the major rift
between Pierre and DCA after that. There
were many deliberate attempts made either to obstruct our efforts or stop
us from getting involved in .Africa.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="background:white"> </span><span style="background:white"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px">As for a lunch meeting with you Calvin, I recall
you strictly saying to me you want to contribute, but had no clue how
to go about the project, or building a business, as you have been running
an NGO operation for years,
including making a statement on how you wanted to use .africa
to run away from your current NGO setup. I then simply put a piece of napkin on the table
and explained to you how to set up the company and governance model to
adopt, which is not far from .asia. Not much of a genius is required to actualize it.
I provided you with a power point of the project description and a proposal for
marketing and asked if you have any input, I recall with a copy
to Alan in Capetown, who also was willing to support the
project. I do have all email communications
from that period. The fact that I innocently discussed my ideas with you
and others in good faith, should not give you any wrong ideas over a
business plan which you did not have and so could not have outlined to me. </span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px">However, if there is any kind of Business model you came
up with that you shared with me, I challenge you to post it in this email
transparently, and I am willing to inform you exactly
where the source is, particularly if someone has shared what I have with you. Sending it to Rebecca directly is not
helpful as I am aware she is on your registry team as a media consultant which
is how she sent her original brief which I believe is a totally one sided story (despite we still hope she will
write an unbiased history for the sake of the truth and our common
posterity). Therefore, I
recall that the mutual discussion we had - you and me - was
on organizational models, since it was too early to come up with a business
model, that is, if you know the difference between the two.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"><br>
It seems that your
folks including your 'brother' Pierre Dandjinou continue to be
fixated on who copied what from whom? May I say pride
goes before a fall here and you are trying to tell your community why you failed to do it for many years, and allowed the
project to lie fallow, until what you call in your own words
a "woman" or " a diaspora" or "a new
comer" came and took over something
that you did not do for over 10 years. Perhaps, DCA's involvement is
the wake-up call that you guys needed. Why don't you tell that to
the new CEO of ICANN who is also a Diaspora and a newcomer, and see if
your claim can fly? or maybe he is not a "woman"
yeah?!!</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="background:white">I must stress that I was deeply
offended by your statements Calvin, and I urge you to be really careful. I also
expect you to display more integrity than you have shown on this matter.
Deliberate distortion of facts is a very dishonorable thing to do. On a project
like .africa, there is no reason to adopt or copy any one's model since our
visions and strategy are very different. The published parts of the competing
applications already submitted to ICANN are clear proofs, so this political
chicanery that you people are engaging in of trying to distort the true history
of .Africa, or attempting to misrepresent the contributions of DCA will
never succeed. Again, for trying too impugn my professional
integrity, I have taken the matter as something rather personal.</span><span style="background:white"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style><span style="font-size:13px">From what I see up to now, your initiative seem to
be a copy stolen from mine including everything you say and do on the media and
figuring out what to do with it next, while the whole world is watching
you shamefully. What everyone is afraid of let me tell you is that if DCA is not there to show you the way, .africa might as well be considered dead as when I found it, as you have no one to copy from. Are you also to claim to even know to bring the
Pan African institutions to the table, which you have never heard of till I met
you and mentioned I will get their support? To your surprise I did? Or is
there anyone else to say that on this list? Because that is the only
thing so far not claimed aside from the governance or business model? </span></span></div><div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"> </span><br>
</div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style><span style="font-size:13px">As DCA will continue to show in the
very near future, you have no model that will stand to thorough public
scrutiny. What everyone should know is that you and your team have signed
a 'Devil's Agreement' with the AU which is against ICANN's guidebook
principles simply to be given the opportunity and selected as the registry
operator of .Africa. In trying to betray DCA's chances, you have simply
sold your 'professional souls' and thrown every caution and decency
to the wind. </span><span style="font-size:13px"> </span></span><span style="font-size:13px"><span style></span><span style>But I did not expect anything smarter
from a farm boy like you, who had no clue about policy development or a
business plan, </span></span><span style="line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">aside from
registering domain names in a machine, which has been your expertise the whole
of your life!</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><div style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="background:white"></span></div><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="background:white"> </span><span style="background:white"></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px">Finally Calvin, while you are in the process
of twisting history to suit yourself, may I also educate you like I did on .africa that
the history of .africa. has nothing to do with getting a registry operator contract with
ICANN? Or maybe u are trying to influence the process to
be, if anyone cares to listen?. What you have engaged in by trying to distort and misrepresent
facts is very shameful. I will wait for your retractions and apologies.</span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"><span style="font-size:13px">As for Rebecca, DCA will send its
version of the events that took place to enable a fair and balanced history of
.Africa to be written.</span> <span style="font-size:12pt"></span></div></div></div></span></div><div><div class="h5"><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif"> </div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:tahoma,times,serif">
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<div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times,serif"><div><div class="h5"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Calvin Browne <<a href="mailto:calvin@orange-tree.alt.za" target="_blank">calvin@orange-tree.alt.za</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank">africann@afrinic.net</a> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, July 2, 2012 11:25 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] Help with .africa history<br> </font> </div> <br>
</div></div><div><div class="h5"><div>
<div>
<div>On 02/07/2012 16:37, Dr Yassin Mshana
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">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? <br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
It's simple - they came after this happened, or their memories are
fading.<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Can we accurate please? That will be the misleading
information that I had mentioned to Rebecca. <br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
Agreed - which is why I'm providing references (which took some time
to dig up).<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<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. <br>
</div>
</blockquote>
<br>
Not entirely correct.<br>
There was a DNSO (Domain Name Support Organisation) which had
several 'constituencies'. Only later did the cc's organise into a
separate Supporting Organisation (I think it was first mooted in
Stockholm). So, basically, the cc's only had a 'separate' voice
later. Until the ccNSO was formed, everything they did was
channelled through the DNSO, now the GNSO.<br>
As I mainly hung out in the cc group, it was the logical place for
me to get some opposition to what was, in my eyes, a recolonisation
attempt.<br>
I was not alone in this effort - and lots of other people, Africans
and non-Africans were involved in this opposition.<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
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<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>
</blockquote>
<br>
Well - you're welcome to believe a woman who arrived half way on the
scene, and implemented a business plan which I outlined to her in a
lunch meeting in São Paulo in 2006, and subsequently claimed the
idea as her own.<br>
<br>
Or, you could go look at the records (which admittedly takes time).<br>
<br>
It was only when I saw clear errors which were going to put forward
that I felt the need to spend the hour or two doing research to get
substantiation.<br>
<br>
And I did outline the stuff which I've substantiated above to
'Becky. Although I got my initial dates wrong by a year.<br>
<br>
regards<br>
<br>
--Calvin<br>
<br>
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</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>
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<div> <br>
<div>On 2 July 2012 12:19, Calvin Browne <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:calvin@orange-tree.alt.za" target="_blank">calvin@orange-tree.alt.za</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div>On 02/07/2012 13:10, Calvin Browne wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 28/06/2012 13:24, Dandjinou Pierre wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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>
</blockquote>
<br>
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>
<br>
<a href="http://archive.icann.org/en/tlds/tld-applications-lodged-02oct00.htm" target="_blank">http://archive.icann.org/en/tlds/tld-applications-lodged-02oct00.htm</a><br>
<br>
regards<br>
<br>
--Calvin<br>
</blockquote>
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<blockquote 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/icann/la2000/archive/scribe-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>
<br>
<a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/scribe-icann-111400.html" target="_blank">http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/scribe-icann-111400.html</a><br>
<br>
"<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>
<br>
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>
<br>
I can't find the GAC's letter - they had a habit of storing
it on a separate server.<br>
<br>
regards<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
--Calvin</font></span>
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