<p dir="ltr">Sent from my LG G4<br>
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<p dir="ltr">On 1 Oct 2016 12:06 p.m., "Noah" <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 1 Oct 2016 07:11, "Alan Barrett" <<a href="mailto:alan.barrett@afrinic.net">alan.barrett@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> What we can all be proud of here is the entire process that was inclusive and indeed made this transition possible.<br>
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> As we can all imagine now, "oversight" is community oriented and the multistakeholder bottom-up process of inclusiveness bred good governance and leadership to make this great achivement possible.<br>
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> We as the AFRNIC community ought to borrow a leaf from this as we continue to develop the African Internet.<br>
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SO: I was privileged to have participated in the development of various proposals that lead to the completion of the IANA stewardship transition. Quite a number of people from the Africa community also participated in this as well. It is indeed the inclusiveness mentality which some of us got used to within the numbers community that contributed to what we now call the outcome of the stewardship transition. Perhaps one of such is the fact that ICANN will now "loosely" be a member organisation. While there will always be things to learn from the new ICANN either good or bad, we will not be fair on ourselves as AFRINIC/Africann community if we fail to appreciate/recognise the level of community engagement that is already enshrined into our various processes.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That said, it may be good to emphasise that while stewardship transition is done with, an organisation accountability process is not a one time event and will indeed be continuous. The same applies to AFRINIC accountability processes as well. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Let's celebrate the moment for now and come back with renewed strength. We the African community should join the ICANN accountability WS2 that is currently on-going and provide input towards the improvement of organisation in the global public interest and in the interest of the organisation itself.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards</p>
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> Noah<br>
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