[governance] ICANN Net Address Endings to Face Government Objections

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Note - https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/GAC+Early+Warnings

Various objections filed by gac (thanks to kenny huang whose fb feed this
appeared on)

Among them is this very interesting statement from the African Union
Commission, explicitly objecting to dotconnectafrica's .africa bid.

https://gacweb.icann.org/download/attachments/22938690/Africa-AUC-42560.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1353382039000

Hot off the presses, issued yesterday

Now let me annoy gideon rop and friends by posting this on circleid, where
they've been saying that dotconnectafrica getting .africa is my worst
nightmare (actually no, my worst nightmare is after i watched the blair
witch project)

Fahd A. Batayneh [21/11/12 09:24 +0200]:
>Well, this is the good part though, and I hope it is as promising as it
>sounds.
>
>Fahd
>
>On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
><suresh at hserus.net>wrote:
>
>> ICANN has a new CEO and a lot more determination to listen to all
>> stakeholders since then
>>
>> Let us keep an open mind for now?
>>
>> Fahd A. Batayneh [21/11/12 07:50 +0200]:
>>
>>> I would never disagree, but let us go back into history and specifically
>>> to
>>> the ICANN San Francisco meeting when .xxx was approved against the advise
>>> of the GAC. While the GAC made a
>>> statement<http://news.dot-nxt.**com/2011/03/17/gac-statement-**dot-xxx<http://news.dot-nxt.com/2011/03/17/gac-statement-dot-xxx>
>>> >part
>>>
>>> of which was "THERE IS NO ACTIVE SUPPORT OF THE GAC FOR THE
>>> INTRODUCTION OF THE DOT XXX TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN", the board never listened.
>>> It
>>> was circulated that the board approved .xxx against the advise of the GAC
>>> to push the New gTLD program forward.
>>>
>>> Statistics state that 4 of the industry's biggest players have a say - in
>>> total - more than 80% of the New gTLD applications. If the GAC opposes to
>>> several applications for each, will they agree and give those applications
>>> easily? After all, they are the same players who invest heavily in setting
>>> up posh booths at ICANN meetings.
>>>
>>> So who will prevail, GAC advise or the big guns?
>>>
>>> In general, this is where ICANN has been failing; i.e. working in the best
>>> public interest. While some saw .xxx as yet another TLD, many rejected it
>>> for various reasons.
>>>
>>> Fahd
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
>>> <suresh at hserus.net>wrote:
>>>
>>>  Sorry?  GAC is part and parcel of the icann process.
>>>>
>>>> --srs (iPad)
>>>>
>>>> On 21-Nov-2012, at 1:19, "Fahd A. Batayneh" <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/**technology-20407906<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20407906>
>>>>
>>>> Kurt Pritz's resignations last week, and now this is sending the New gTLD
>>>> program to unknown destinations. I wonder if common sense or lobbying by
>>>> the big guns will prevail in the end.
>>>>
>>>> Fahd
>>>>
>>>

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