[governance] Interesting story of the never ending ICANN Conflict of Interest. This time on .africa?

Thu Oct 25 13:13:15 EDT 2012

Dear Suresh Ramasubramanian,

Of course, the sentiments that you have conveyed in your posting below
shows that you remain disrespectful of DCA.   This is quite unfair and
absolutely unjustified on your part. You have not given yourself the chance
to really understand DCA's side of the story.  I recall DCA and others
arguing endlessly with you on CircleID in the comments section of the Blog
posting (Re: *
http://www.circleid.com/posts/is_africa_ready_for_a_dotafrica_gtld_future/)*<http://www.circleid.com/posts/is_africa_ready_for_a_dotafrica_gtld_future/%29>
that
was posted by me at the time, when I was just a fan of DCA.

First, you claim that DCA shot itself in the foot by bidding for the wrong
TLD.  Nothing could be farther from the truth. You are probably not aware
that ICANN already approved DCA's Change Request regarding the gTLD string
name applied-for.   Therefore, ICANN now officially recognizes DCA Trust as
an applicant for the .Africa string name, so DCA has not applied for the
wrong TLD as you have erroneously stated in your posting.

Second, if you claim that this issue will have to be seen "from the prism
of dueling commercial interests", then it would be good for everyone to
patiently wait for the Initial and Final Evaluation results of the
applications to be announced by ICANN.  On what basis would you now be
favouring one commercial interest over another?  Is it fair or
legitimate for a "commercial interest" to claim that it has the endorsement
of the African Union Commission to apply on behalf of the African
Community, but then submits an application to ICANN that does not even
acknowledge this same Community that it claims to support it?  Perhaps it
would be necessary for you to look through your prism again.

Third, you blame DCA for launching extremely vitriolic campaign against
anybody at all they saw as opposed to their interests. Please note that DCA
has fully explained why it had to engage on the 'No Campaigns', and that is
now in the past. Everyone has already moved on.

Finally, stating that one has lost is similar to the misleading notions
contained in the Domainincite article that you have referred to. I would
also like to refer you to DCA's official response to the writer of that
Domainincite blog. *
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1110608545772.html
*<http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1110608545772.html>,
 or perhaps what other bloggers also think of his opinion, you so value *
http://domainingafrica.com/i-will-win-africa-because-i-have-friends-in-high-places-case-of-conflicted-board-members/
*<http://domainingafrica.com/i-will-win-africa-because-i-have-friends-in-high-places-case-of-conflicted-board-members/>
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and calling the results of the
application prematurely based on the fact that you do not like DCA is quite
subjective.

You may recall that at the time you claimed that DCA did not impress you,
 UniForum had not even shown any interest to apply for .Africa at that
time. Therefore, your really have no justification for being against
DotConnectAfrica Trust.

Finally, you may not want to miss this latest clarification on circleid, to
sort out the  same confusion you and the author DCA is replying to, on the
declaration of Victory, that seem to be limited by Prism sphere.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121024_icann_africa_strategy_is_not_the_same_as_the_african_agenda/

Thanks.

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<suresh at hserus.net>wrote:

> Replying to an email of Riaz Tayob's - posted in the archives -
>
> As far as I can see dotconnectafrica shot themselves in their own foot by
> first
> bidding for the wrong TLD, and then launching an extremely vitriolic attack
> campaign against anybody at all they saw as opposed to their interests.
>
> This on circleid for example was the first I heard of this group and their
> campaign, and it failed to impress me right at the start.
>
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/is_africa_ready_for_a_dotafrica_gtld_future/
>
> http://www.circleid.com/posts/20121008_icann_africa_strategy_a_new_approach_to_africa/
>
> Anything at all more on this issue will have to be seen from the prism of
> dueling commercial interests, one of which has apparently lost out but is
> still
> aggressively claiming victory.
>
> This article says it all -
> http://domainincite.com/9802-dotconnectafrica-disconnected-from-reality
>
> thanks
> --srs
>
> On 2012/10/12 04:11 PM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch wrote:
>
> > the claims are vague enough to be consistent with "one more turn of the
> > extortion screw",
>
> Whatever does this mean?
>
>
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