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          mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Dear Ali and All<br>
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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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          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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      On 18/04/2013 16:15, Ali Hussein wrote:<br>
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          style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Listers</span></span></p>
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            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>
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          </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>
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          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>
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      <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>
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          </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>
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          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>
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          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>
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          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>
        </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"
        style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span
          style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font><br>
          </font></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">Lastly listers this also begs a
            question that has been burning me for a while:-</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
            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>
      <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">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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        <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span
            style="font-size:12pt"></span></span></p>
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        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font><b>Ali
                Hussein</b></font></span></p>
        <p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span
            style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font><b>CEO, 3mice
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