[kictanet] Official response to the "facts" circulated by Alice on behalf of DotConnectAfrica

[Brian Munyao Longwe]

I'm beginning to experience e-fatigue with the seemingly constant
misdirection that is coming from DCA regarding their (seemingly flawed)
string application and misleading references to the AUC/Uniforum string
application...

*Shaking my head and sighing deeply*

Brian

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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:15 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> BTW, your named is misspelled in yoour application:
>
> Mr. Gedion Rop  Project Support Engineer (DCA)
>
> and I see that you are applying for .africa as a 'Standard" gTLD
> according to the public parts of your application.
>
>
> -----------quote------------------
>
> 18(a). Describe the mission/purpose of your proposed gTLD.
>
> DotAfrica is a ‘Standard’ gTLD:
>
> DotAfrica gTLD will be a standard, open, generic Top-Level Domain
> (gTLD) that serves the diverse needs and purposes of the global
> Internet community, but with special focus on promoting Internet use
> in Africa.  It will have no community restrictions in its registration
> policies.
>
> DCA believes that DotAfrica does not qualify as a community-based
> application for two main reasons:
>
> a)      There is no clearly delineated, organized and pre-existing
> community that is targeted by the DotAfrica gTLD.
> b)      It is difficult to clearly identify who are the ‘members’ of the
> community, since a ‘community-definition’ of DotAfrica will restrict
> its use and functionality.  Since ‘DotAfrica’ does not necessarily
> mean a TLD for ‘Africans’, it is difficult to determine the persons or
> entities that are considered to form the community, and the number of
> people or entities that make up the community.
>
> It is for these reasons that we think that any community-based
> application submitted for DotAfrica is merely to get a very important
> generic word – that refers to a geographic name – as a gTLD string for
> the ‘purposes’ of a community that is very difficult to define and
> construct.
>
> ----end quote ------------------
>
>
> so why are you trying to assert that the uniforum application should
> be a "community" application?
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
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