[kictanet] US screening new gTLD applicants against US laws

[Alice Munyua]

Dear all,

More concerns from the Africa ICANN community on the new gTLD guidebook.

best

alice


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Dear AfrICANN's

Please read Khaled Fattal's honourable submission at 
http://forum.icann.org/lists/5gtld-guide/pdfIIMoPfVdQj.pdf and see what 
an important and disturbing development the "final" new gTLD Draft 
Applicant Guidebook gives us. I must admit that while I was bogged down 
to the ccNSO and its council's business in Cartagena, this important 
matter escaped my attention.

What is Africa's response to the DAG full granting the US government a 
right to screen new gTLD applicants against the US (probably more 
supreme) laws? I really think we can expect non-US people starting to 
push for alternative DNS root seeing the current DNS is US' and US' 
alone! So if you're not a US applicant and are from a country the US 
government considers to be terrorist, then forget about getting your new 
gTLD! This is what this exactly mean,

While I've been usually reserved regarding the ITU advances towards the 
DNS, if ICANN continues to be a US govt entity as it is doing right now 
(even when ICANN is supposed to move away from this reality through the 
Affirmation), then who can blame the ITU or even other "Internet rebels" 
(or should we not call them "Internet freedom fighters") who have come 
up with alternative DNSes!

I hope subscribers to this list will make their governments aware of 
this important matter (I believe some already have done so) and that our 
governments and the AU will not disappoint in withstanding the US 
monopoly of the currently dominant DNS. It must be fair to expect 
African governments to express their position even before the ICANN 
board meets GAC in February 2011.

And I hope we won't hear another view that ICANN needs to first build 
our capacity before we can respond to this straight-forward nonsense 
from the ICANN DAG.

Regards,

*Vika Mpisane*

ZADNA

+27 11 275 0082

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