<div dir="auto">Unfortunately or fortunately(choose one that fits) he is still here. :-)<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Sent from my mobile<br>Kindly excuse brevity and typos<br>Every word has consequences.<br>Every silence does too!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 25 Sep 2022, 18:09 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">
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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 <<a href="mailto:ymshana2003@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ymshana2003@gmail.com</a>>, 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" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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