<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Great as the guidebook works fine. </div><div><br></div><div>You shared a link on how well you are winning and you got feedback which showed an unfavorable score card for DCA</div><div><br></div><div>Will <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">DCA now stop disturbing the list about its application since we agree on the guidebook process</span></div><div><br>On Dec 2, 2012, at 17:03, Lerato <<a href="mailto:lerato.ma@yahoo.com">lerato.ma@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I am sure DCA can defend </span><span style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px;">itself</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> from any of the below </span></span><span><span><span style="font-size: 13.600000381469727px;">rummers, </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">insinuations, what you say counts or does not, which is already in the public domain. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;"><span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">But if </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10pt;">you think that DCA has all this staked up against it, and your bid is stronger, why ask DCA to withdraw, just let the system run its course right?</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">-- Lerato Ma.</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; 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 <<a href="mailto:quaynor@ghana.com">quaynor@ghana.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Lerato <<a href="mailto:lerato.ma@yahoo.com">lerato.ma@yahoo.com</a>>; "<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 1, 2012 12:30 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] .africa the saga continues<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv531831816"><div><div>Well for the onlooker it seems you did not understand the guidebook. </div><div><br></div><div>Yet you think you are winning. So far,</div><div><br></div><div>- you have had to do a string substitution</div><div>- you have received several objections</div><div>- have not shown the 60% countries supporting your application</div><div>- AUC rejected endorsement of DCA</div><div>- UNECA is UN and not Africa thus does not count</div><div><br></div><div>Frankly, indications are not looking good. Rumor has it that some letters DCA wrote seeking endorsement claimed you were ICANN board members? </div><div><br></div><div>Some have even questioned the authenticity of the AUC letter you claimed to have in the press</div><div><br></div><div>Talking of ethics please get ready as all these will play out publicly...<br><br>If I were you I'll follow Badru's advise and eat humble pie</div><div><br></div><div><br>On Dec 1, 2012,
at 19:31, 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"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div><span><span style="font-size:13px;">From your point of view, DCA always has a $185k misunderstanding of reading the </span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px;">guidebook</span><span style="font-size:13px;">, but keeps winning!</span></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span><span style="font-size:13px;"><a href="http://www.itwebafrica.com/internet/334-africa/229830-the-185000-dotafrica-internet-domain-name-misunderstanding?">http://www.itwebafrica.com/internet/334-africa/229830-the-185000-dotafrica-internet-domain-name-misunderstanding?</a></span><br></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 20px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-style:
normal;"><span><span style="font-size:13px;"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="
font-size:13px;"> --Lerato Ma</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;padding-left:5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <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 <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:quaynor@ghana.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:quaynor@ghana.com">quaynor@ghana.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Lerato <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:lerato.ma@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:lerato.ma@yahoo.com">lerato.ma@yahoo.com</a>>; "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 1, 2012 10:26 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] .africa the saga continues<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv531831816"><div><div>What am telling you is that you did not read the guidebook (400 pages too big for you) and therefore made grave mistakes and may have lost $185K :(<br><br>On Dec 1, 2012, at 14:24, 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"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><span style="font-size:10pt;">Doc, </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">what Nii is telling you is pollution and ethics are outside the scope of the </span><span style="font-size:13.600000381469727px;">guidebook</span><span><span style="font-size:10pt;">, </span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;">the book once </span><span style="background-color:transparent;">refereed</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> to in this list as </span><span>the</span><span style="font-size:10pt;"> Bible of New gTLDs.</span></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;"><span style="font-size:10pt;">Perhaps if </span><span style="font-size:13.600000381469727px;">guidebook</span><span style="font-size:10pt;"> was really a Bible, meaning DCA would not have "failed to get government support".</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.600000381469727px; color: rgb(0, 0,
0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> --Lerato Ma</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;margin-top:5px;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 <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:quaynor@ghana.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:quaynor@ghana.com">quaynor@ghana.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> "<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:africann@afrinic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>> <br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, December 1, 2012 6:05 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] .africa the saga continues<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv531831816"><div><div>Please follow the applicant guidebook process...<br><br>On Dec 1, 2012, at 11:19, Y Mshana2003 <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ymshana2003@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ymshana2003@gmail.com">ymshana2003@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> Hello there...<div>It seems that the discussion is becoming similar to what football fans do - arguing and castigating other teams. Unfortunately Africa is one team with players who are playing with the aim to each win a Goal for themselves.</div><div>This .africa issue shows all of that...</div><div>Can we be more professional and open please? DCA is not a personal undertaking nor do the ccTLD for .za.</div><div>Let us wait for the outcome of the process at ICANN although ICANN process may have been polluted ??<br><div><br><br><font size="2">From Yassin . Sent from samsung mobile. On O2.</font> </div></div><br><br><br>Dr
Eberhard W Lisse <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:el@lisse.NA" target="_blank" href="mailto:el@lisse.NA">el@lisse.NA</a>> wrote:<br><br><br>Point is, they are not.<br><br>Capable.<br><br>Of anything. Other than whining.<br><br><br>And, I stated at the AFRALO-Africann meeting in Prague that it<br>doesn't matter whether there are only 17 applications (and not 170<br>or 1700) but that we need to make a success out of them.<br><br>The Uniforum bid is indigenous, with their own software, which is<br>tried and tested, run on their own infrastructure, which as tried<br>and tested and thus has a cost advantage...<br><br>And as you and I have no personal interest in the matter, I myself<br>even think, the bid is as necessary as a goiter, it is of course<br>incumbent upon the entertaining Ms Bekelelelele to accuse. Which<br>she in her many incarnations does to everyone not agreeing with her.<br>Especially whenveracity is difficult to realign
to reality.<br><br>el<br><br>On 2012-12-01 10:23 , Nii Narku Quaynor wrote:<br>> On Dec 1, 2012, at 6:24, Badru Ntege <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:badru.ntege@nftconsult.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:badru.ntege@nftconsult.com">badru.ntege@nftconsult.com</a> wrote: ><br>>> If I were DCA I would humbly withdraw from this race and join<br>>> hands with the rest of the continent to see how we can make the<br>>> most of the .africa resource.<br>>><br>>><br>> <br>> Is DCA capable of this?<br>> <br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a><br> </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>AfrICANN mailing list</span><br><span><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a></span><br><span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>AfrICANN mailing list</span><br><span><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a></span><br><span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>AfrICANN mailing list<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>AfrICANN mailing list</span><br><span><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a></span><br><span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a></span><br></div></blockquote></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></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>AfrICANN mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:AfrICANN@afrinic.net">AfrICANN@afrinic.net</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>