<html><body><div style="color:; background-color:; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px; ">Colleagues, I react on these two articles:</span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px; "><a href="http://www.thedomains.com/2012/10/03/dotconnectafrica-sends-third-letter-to-icann-alleging-conflict-of-interest-issues-with-its-board-members-over-africa/">http://www.thedomains.com/2012/10/03/dotconnectafrica-sends-third-letter-to-icann-alleging-conflict-of-interest-issues-with-its-board-members-over-africa/</a><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size:
13px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><a href="http://domainingafrica.com/i-will-win-africa-because-i-have-friends-in-high-places-case-of-conflicted-board-members/">http://domainingafrica.com/i-will-win-africa-because-i-have-friends-in-high-places-case-of-conflicted-board-members/</a><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px; "><br></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px;
">If we refer to strings submited to this first round, we can note a demand for the string africa (applicant id 1-1243-89583) and another one dotafrica (1-1165-42560). I wonder why write these kinds of articles would hear in a conflict between two entities for africa string that does not exist. I agree that we must avoid conflicts of interest, but for the .Africa, this conflict should not exist. There are many cases that can be used to illustrate the conflict of interest within ICANN and not the .Africa (to differentiate from .DotAfrica)</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px; "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px; ">I’m sure people who have applied for the DotAfrica (as string) knew they had lost in advance the africa!</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman',
Times, serif; line-height: 22px; "><a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 122, 204); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 22px; ">http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en</a></span></div><div> </div><div style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(64, 64, 255);"><span style="font-style:italic;"></span>ATTOUMANI MOHAMED Karim, Comores<br></div> </div></body></html>