<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><blockquote style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; padding: 0px;"><div> <span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Did DCA achieve this? If DCA failed to achieve that you should not conclude that the governments have no clue or come to fight with listers</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; padding: 0px;"><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">No surprise however since anyone with different opinion received insults from almighty DCA and ministers of ICT were not spared. Perhaps DCA insulted a few too many governments and the PR failed in getting government support</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69);
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br></div></blockquote><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The whole world has seen that DCA had achieved it until your special interest group came along to sabotage it, bust still did not succeed. </span></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> DCA also did not insult governments or ICT Ministers or even the community. Worst things has been stated and done to DCA's initiative, which was left to defend itself. When you answer the ethical question that Dr Yassin brought up earlier, you will know why DCA's bid was ill advised so they could lose government support. </span></blockquote><blockquote style="font-family: arial,
helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; border: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I believe today governments are much more tolerant to </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">criticism</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> and </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">alternative</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> views than what you think. But when the </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">interest</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> of
few </span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">individuals</span><span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> are at stake than the people it serves, then yes there is a problem. In DCA's case, I tend to believe the governments are misled!</span></blockquote><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">--Lerato Ma</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Nii Narku
Quaynor <quaynor@ghana.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Lerato <lerato.ma@yahoo.com>; "africann@afrinic.net" <africann@afrinic.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 1, 2012 4:12 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] .africa the saga continues<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv1726974603"><div><div><br><br>On Dec 1, 2012, at 11:38, Lerato <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:lerato.ma@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:lerato.ma@yahoo.com">lerato.ma@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite" style=""><div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><font class="yiv1726974603Apple-style-span" face="'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif"><span class="yiv1726974603Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color:transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12.800000190734863px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><span
style="background-color:transparent;">I also say yes, all those governments have no clue of DCA bid or rather ill advised. W</span><span style="background-color:transparent;">hy should any of the governments show bias and support to one bidder over another?</span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> Is DCA not not </span><span style="
background-color:transparent;">running</span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> the same .africa or someone managed to confused them with .dotarica? </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">DCA did not violate any national law and public policy, so I see no reason why the governments should have a problem with its bid. Governments should not block competition.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.600000381469727px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></div></blockquote>It's amazing how we brush over the fact that the string applied for require support or no objection from 60% of member country 'governments' <div><br></div><div>Did DCA achieve this? If DCA failed to achieve that you should not conclude that the governments have no clue or come to fight with listers</div><div><br></div><div>No surprise however since
anyone with different opinion received insults from almighty DCA and ministers of ICT were not spared. Perhaps DCA insulted a few too many governments and the PR failed in getting government support</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net" href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>