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<div dir="auto">And I had so hoped he had gone away.<br />
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<div name="messageReplySection">On 25. Sep 2022, 17:23 +0200, Y Mshana <ymshana2003@gmail.com>, wrote:<br />
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<div dir="auto">Oh no! Not again after all those years..
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 22 Sep 2022, 15:59 Dr Eberhard W Lisse, <<a href="mailto:el@lisse.na">el@lisse.na</a>> wrote:<br /></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Some thoughts on the session:<br />
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Basically most of the session time was wasted with<br />
approximately 10 addresses by the usual suspects all of which<br />
had the same content, namely exactly zero.<br />
<br />
This is not new, it has been unchanged approximately since I<br />
have attended the first meeting many years ago.<br />
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The only exception was Alan Barrett who then however faced<br />
headwind for making the practical and good suggestion of<br />
clients to engage their providers if and when these do not<br />
provide Universal Access.<br />
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Several speakers (in particular the (outgoing African) Board<br />
Members who should have ample opportunity to actually do<br />
something about it (but NEVER do)) pontificated about how<br />
important it would be to have ICANN Meetings in Africa.<br />
<br />
While I am all in favor of that, in particular in Namibia, the<br />
Chair wasted the opportunity to engage ICANN's CEO on this,<br />
which had to be done by Sébastien Bachollet and even in<br />
English, pointing out that one of the reasons to create the<br />
smaller ICANN (policy) meetings was to have reduced<br />
requirements in oder to be able to hold meetings in developing<br />
countries.<br />
<br />
Of course he was fobbed off, and, in a manner which I consider<br />
bordering the line of ICANN's Standards of Acceptable<br />
Behavior.<br />
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The point is not that we need to have meetings in all ICANN<br />
regions and in particular in Africa, which we do, and we all<br />
know that, the question is why ICANN is not doing it or<br />
anything about it?<br />
<br />
Well, I think, this is because the "paying" stakeholders do<br />
not wish to meet in less than 5 star environments close to<br />
major airports, let alone transit.<br />
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This US-centricity which is patently obvious in so many ICANN<br />
aspects is, in my view, not compatible with the multi<br />
stakeholder model.<br />
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Fortunately there was no time to review or even debate the<br />
"statement", which mostly nobody reads, but most certainly is<br />
never acted upon.<br />
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greetings, el<br />
--<br />
Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist<br />
el@lisse.NA / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell)<br />
PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht \ / If this email is signed with GPG/PGP<br />
10007, Namibia ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No 4 of 2019 may apply<br />
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