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We cannot be sure how the ICANN Board will respond to GAC
advice on new gTLD safeguards,
but comment in an video interview with Fadi Chehadé and Steve
Crocker (<a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/kits/beijing46/video-post-meeting-12apr13-en.htm"><span
style="color:blue"><http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/kits/beijing46/video-post-meeting-12apr13-en.htm></span></a>)
indicate they will put the section of the GAC communiqué on
safeguards for
pubic comment. This seems to be the best and correct course of
action. However,
I am not sure how that will impact on the time lines for
delegation of new
gTLDs, especially if there are differences in interpretation
of GAC advice.<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">On the safeguard advice, we must
acknowledge that
governments have a role to play. We expect that they would
provide<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>policies/policy
direction for the protection of users/consumers<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>to
enhance trust in online activities and indeed in the new
gTLDs. If you all
recall our discussions regarding online behaviour during<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>our
elections, we all appreciate governmental role and indeed
roles of all other
stakeholders. It would be good if Kenyan stakeholders had a
look at the safe
guards being proposed and provided input if and when a public
comment period is opened. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The role of governments in ICANN's
multistakeholder
model evolved after the 2009 Affirmation of Commitments (AoC),
replaced the
Memorandum of Understanding between the United States
Department of Commerce, providing
international stakeholders, particularly governments, more say
in how ICANN
manages the DNS.<br>
<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><br>
Under the AoC, 3 review teams were created, WhoIs, Security<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>stability and resiliency
(SSRT) and accountability and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>transparency (ATRT). The first reviews teams completed
their<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>reviews in 2012.
The first ATRT provided recommendations<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>including the role and
effectiveness of the Governmental Advisory
Committee, public Input and public policy processes, and
review mechanisms for Board
decisions. Recommendation 11 and article XI of ICANN bylaws
mandates that
"The advice of the Governmental Advisory Committee on public
policy
matters shall be duly taken into account" with a view to
speeding up the
process. It goes further to say that if GAC and board are not
able to come to
an agreement, the action that the board intends to take
against GAC advice
would have to be adopted by majority vote (2/3) of board
members.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span>The second ATRT has
started its
activities and expected to deliver final recommendations by
end of 2013.
Our very own Fiona Asonga<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>is on this team
(she was not appointed by government<span
class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span>)
Congratulations Fiona.<br>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><br>
Regarding Kenya's position on the AUC application, it has been<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>guided by
several processes, as you have rightly pointed out, including
the African
ministerial summit, 2010 Abuja declaration, which provided the
African Union
Commission with the mandate to<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Trebuchet MS";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">"establish
dot Africa as a
continental Top-Level Domain for use by organizations,
businesses and
individuals with guidance from African Internet Agencies" and
"set up
the structure and modalities for the implementation of the
dotAfrica project"
</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier;mso-bidi-font-family:
Courier;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">In addition, the AU heads of
state summit. Our former Minister and president participated
in all of these AU/AUC processes.<br>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><br>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>On appointments to the
GAC and
indeed any other roles that require representing the country’s
position, good
questions for further discussions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">On the policy role of the CCK, it is
a regulatory
authority, to what extend should it be involved in policy
formulation? is
another good question <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><br>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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On 18/04/2013 16:15, Ali Hussein wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAPjmBy20MTmODbULmVK41rpZ-t+BV36k4unX3-YPWwkPahRd0w@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Listers</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
For those who followed the goings on at ICANN 46 in Beijing
there seems to be a
concerted effort from Governments worldwide to endanger the
freedoms we have
enjoyed on the internet. </span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
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style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">See
GAC communique attached. <br>
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">While
I applaud the GAC for
having reached consensus to object to two applications, one
of them dot Connect
Africa, my personal opinion is that the same (in my opinion)
retrogressive
elements who derailed WCIT12 are at play again with some GAC
members trying to
introduce/recommend to ICANN a complete redesign of the
underlying
policies for approving new top level domains. <br>
<br>
To quote from the article below (see link) <br>
<br>
<b>'The GAC has interpreted the task of providing advice on
public policy as a
mandate to start from scratch and revisit every policy
issue related to the use
of domain names that has been debated since 1999. Six
years of work by the
Generic Names Supporting Organization, which is supposed
to develop policy, has
been ignored.'<br>
</b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/04/11/who-needs-the-itu-when-you-have-a-gac/"
target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/04/11/who-needs-the-itu-when-you-have-a-gac/</span></a></span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">I
understand though that various
ICANN constituents requested that the GAC advice on
safeguards be put under
public comment and I think this will be a good thing in
protecting the
multistakeholder model of policy making at ICANN.<br>
<br>
But all the same, what should we make of this? Is the
Multi-Stakeholder model
under attack? As it was in Kenya during deliberations
towards WCIT12 in Dubai?<br>
<br>
And what is Kenya's position on the safeguards? <br>
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Can
the new Kenya GAC Rep please
enlighten us?</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Talking
of the Kenya GAC Rep, we
understand there have been some very embarrassing situations
where he
contradicted the Kenya Government Stand on the African Union
Commission (AUC)
.Africa gTLD application. He is purported to have supported
a competing
application from DotConnectAfrica (DCA) against the AUC
application which is
supported by African countries including Kenya. See attached
letter from our
former Minister of Information, Mr. S. Poghisio. <br>
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">By
the way, how is the Kenya
GAC Rep appointed? We had Alice Munyua and Michael Katundu
and then
now it seems there is Sammy Buruchara who was recently
appointed to apparently
replace Alice Munyua, whose term was ending after the
Beijing meeting having
been the vice chair of the GAC. This is a terrible mess that
points us as
amateurs without an inkling of where our heads are at..</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">The
link below paints a sorry
picture of a country at odds with itself. The gist of the
matter is this:-</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br>
<span style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://tandaabiashara.com/icann-gac-ignores-kenya-advice-on-dotconnectafrica-dotafrica-application/"
target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://tandaabiashara.com/icann-gac-ignores-kenya-advice-on-dotconnectafrica-dotafrica-application/</span></a></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Who
should we believe? Michael
Katundu and Sammy Buruchara or the former minister of
information who attended
the African Union Ministerial summit in Abuja and other
summits which clearly
mandated AUC to initiate the process to acquire the dot
AFrica TLD. The
Minister had following these summits sent a clear message to
ICANN regarding
Kenya's support for the AUC application for .Africa (see
letter attached) and
there is also our former President who attended the African
Union Heads of State
summit that yet again mandated the African Union Commission
to pursue and
implement an Africa TLD.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Listers,
I invite you to make your
own conclusions based on the evidence and documentation
attached and linked to
this posting. The link below is telling:-</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://tandaabiashara.com/icann-gac-ignores-kenya-advice-on-dotconnectafrica-dotafrica-application/"
target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">http://tandaabiashara.com/icann-gac-ignores-kenya-advice-on-dotconnectafrica-dotafrica-application/</span></a></span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Note
that on this link DCA
also claims to have an endorsement letter from the same
minister. What a mess!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br>
</span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif">
</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"><img
moz-do-not-send="true" src=""
alt="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif"
border="0" height="1" width="1"></span><span
style="font-size:12pt">I make a personal appeal to Dr. Ndemo
to right this
situation quickly as we risk the good name of our country.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><br>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span
style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">This
is serious as it paints the country in very bad light in the
international community and needs to be put to a stop.
Should Kenya's Representative be going against government
positions? Were they briefed regarding the government
position on the AUC dot Africa application?</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span
style="font-size:12pt">Lastly listers this also begs a
question that has been burning me for a while:-</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Who
is responsible for Policy
Formulation in the ICT Space? Is the CCK or the
Wider Government through
the Ministry of Infocom? It is important that we
interrogate this issue
since we are seeing a slow creep of CCK Apparatchik in
policy processes and
engagement as opposed to regulation, enforcement and
enablement. If this is the
case then it needs to be very clearly mandated through new
law. Or am I missing
something? I stand corrected though if I am wrong in my
assumptions.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal"><span
style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">We
are leader in Africa in this space and we must act the
part. We shouldn't be seen to stumble and look like fumbling
teenagers when it
comes to our engagement in international fora. The Kenyan
Private Sector,
Non-Profits and Government must be seen to move in tandem
like a well-oiled
machine. We should strive to avoid another disaster like
WCIT12 and now our GAC
involvement in ICANN 46, Beijing.</span></span></p>
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