Hi <div>In this world, Diplomacy matters a great deal - may stop wars or start wars when it fails. </div><div><br></div><div>From what have reading and based on the trend of events... there is a belief that the AU was not used/misused properly - why was it important to run to AU before the African Community which AU represents as an Organisation? </div>
<div><br></div><div>I wish to absolve AU from this saga since I am convinced to believe that the Advisory to AU 'is in persons' were or are involved in the <.africa> saga.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition, it is difficult to rule out that to 'hold' a meeting purported to be between AU and ICANN 44 in Prague is a simple thing to do without the necessary sanctions - to dig deeper I for one would like t ask, "was such type of meetings in the standing schedules of AU?" this is question which is seeking for enlightenment.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To dig deeper for facts, was the meeting in Prague scheduled as per AU mandate ? that is short of asking similar question to what happened during ICANN-43 Dakar when Hon Ministers were in attendance. The Diplomacy of the Internet seems to be different whereby a meeting may take place without observing the protocol of letting all know? OR were the Meetings of extraordinary strategic importance that we know about them later?</div>
<div> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 July 2012 00:24, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Y Mshana2003 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ymshana2003@gmail.com" target="_blank">ymshana2003@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>My problem is the way the AU was brought in and used in this saga..<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br><br>How would you have done it?<br><br clear="all">The Guidebook didn't specify HOW it would be done, and that is perhaps something that we can blame ICANN for (since ICANN is ourselves however, we only have ourselves to blame).<br>
</div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
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