<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.600000381469727px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">McTim,</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.600000381469727px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">



<br></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.600000381469727px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You should be asking the AU
 to explain that not DCA.   <span style="background-color:transparent">Given
 that the source of the document you obtained is from DCA's site, you 
can see DCA has nothing to hide, it has replied to that AU communique 
 with the following press statement. There is always 2 sides to a story.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.600000381469727px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.prlog.org/11490290-dca-commentary-response-to-the-african-union-commission-communiqu-clarification-on-dotafrica.html" style="background-color:transparent" target="_blank">http://www.prlog.org/11490290-dca-commentary-response-to-the-african-union-commission-communiqu-clarification-on-dotafrica.html</a></div>



<div><span><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span><span><span style="font-size:10pt">Regarding the open EOI or RFP AU </span><span style="font-size:13.600000381469727px">claims</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> it has </span></span><span style="font-size:13.600000381469727px">eventually</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> done, let AU e</span></span><span style="font-size:13.600000381469727px">xplain</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> this as well.</span></font></span></div>



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<span>Indeed Fahd, .africa is a fireworks!  Public interest with who?   I hope you do not mean with the AU!<br><br>Gideon.<br></span></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Fahd A. Batayneh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fahd.batayneh@gmail.com" target="_blank">fahd.batayneh@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>



<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>It seems that .Africa is destined to fireworks. I wonder where does "the public interest" stand at.</p><span><font color="#888888">
<p>Fahd<br>
</p>
</font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Nov 7, 2012 9:38 PM, "McTim" <<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div>
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On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Gideon <<a href="mailto:gideonrop@gmail.com" target="_blank">gideonrop@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Our endorsement is compliant with ICANN requirements and no letter has been<br>
> written for DCA explicitly withdrawing AU support.<br>
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so how do you explain this one:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102516344150-107/Communique_Statement_by_AUC_on_Dot_Africa_May_10th__AO+MY_+BK_Comments%5b1%5d.pdf" target="_blank">http://library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102516344150-107/Communique_Statement_by_AUC_on_Dot_Africa_May_10th__AO+MY_+BK_Comments%5b1%5d.pdf</a><br>





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Cheers,<br>
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McTim<br>
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route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel<br>
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