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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">Hi Pierre and
all, <br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">><br>
></span><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">To expand
McTim's questions, is there any African position on the same
issues?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">New gTLDs are
important, (open new opportunities change internet name space
etc) but this will also have significant public policy,
legal and marketing implications. While there has not been an
"African" position, the GAC works on consensus and so I would
say that most of the issues where there is continued
disagreements not
yet resolved would be issues most governments represented on
GAC
support. The main issues are </span><b style=""><u><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-GB">1. Root Zone Scaling, 2. Market and Economic
Impacts,
3. Registry – Registrar Separation, 4. Protection of Rights
Owners, </span></u></b><b style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">5.</span></b><b
style=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-GB">
</span></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-family: "Times
New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">Post-delegation Disputes with
governments, 6. Use of geographic names,
7. Legal recourse for applications and 8. Providing
opportunities for all
stakeholders including those from developing countries. <br>
</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-family:
"Times New Roman";"></span></b><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Issue
8 is particularly important for Africa. For those who have seen
the latest
version of DAG, the proposed new round as is currently framed
would carry the
risk of excluding those with limited financial resources from
benefiting due
to the fees structure, et</span><span style="font-family:
"Times New Roman";" lang="EN-GB">c. It also does
not live
up to ICANN’s commitment to act in the “global public interest"
consistent
with the affirmation of commitments. </span><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">><br>
></span><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">On
the .XXX, for instance, I recall the Nigerian representative on
the GAC had
elaborated on an 'African position' at the last ICANN meeting. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">Yes
Mary did speak up during the Cartagena meeting, but it was not
an African position.<br>
<br style="">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">><br>
></span><br>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">>=<br>
></span><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">On .xxx/. Gay/. Whatever is that some people find
offensive?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";"> Pornography,
even though abundant, especially in locally made DVD's and
pirated ones, is
illegal in Kenya and many other African countries. Homosexuality
is also
illegal. While other governments have free-speech obligations
and so it is legal to distribute and produce pornography with
restrictions
placed upon it.<br>
In countries where it is illegal, it would be difficult to
support dot xxx or dot gay.<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">><br>
></span><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">><br>
></span><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">Will you be supporting the US position that
governments get a veto?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";">Its
not so much about supporting US call for government's veto, but
perhaps it is
time to seriously reflect on how ICANN works/operates. would
relate it to a discussion we had on
this list sometime last year about internationalizing ICANN as
one of the
proposals from the President's committee. <br>
<br>
<br>
best<br>
<br>
Alice<br style="">
<br style="">
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New
Roman";"><br>
<br>
--<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
McTim<br>
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it
is. A<br>
route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel</span></p>
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Roman";"><br>
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Alice Munyua <<a
href="mailto:alice@apc.org"><span style="">alice@apc.org</span></a>>
wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://slatest.slate.com/id/2284157/"><span
style="">http://slatest.slate.com/id/2284157/</span></a><br>
><br>
> Scramble for New Domain Names Begins<br>
><br>
> For years, most internet addresses have relied on a
standard set of Web<br>
> addresses ending in .com, .net, and .edu. Now, an impending
mass expansion<br>
> of domain names is set to add subject-specific (and
potentially<br>
> controversial) suffixes into the mix. The Washington Post
reports that
.god,<br>
> .gay, and .islam are just some of the infinite number of
names to be<br>
> introduced in a move that may make the Internet more
intuitive, or just
more<br>
> irritating. Naturally this will throw up the usual set of
controversies:<br>
> Who, for example, gets to control .abortion, .muhammad, and
.nazi? The new<br>
> suffixes will be dolled out by an obscure nonprofit based
in California
that<br>
> OKed the expansion in 2008 but still hasn't figured out
exactly how it
will<br>
> work. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers will come to
a<br>
> decision this spring and then begin considering proposals
from companies
and<br>
> government. ICANN has encouraged applicants to "Join the
Internet
land<br>
> rush!" on its Web site, although the new suffixes will come
at a
price. It<br>
> costs $185,000 just to apply, plus an annual $25,000 fee to
operate the
new<br>
> domain name. Critics say the "landrush" is simply a
moneymaking
scheme for<br>
> the group and corporations that own the domains. The
chairman of ICANN
says<br>
> the high fees are necessary because the nonprofit
anticipates a lot of<br>
> suffix-related lawsuits.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
><br>
></span></p>
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