<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Listers</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Email below refers.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">This is the sort of thing that doesn't endear the world to America and will jeopardize Internet Governance going forward.<br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div>"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought". ~ Albert Szent-Györgyi</div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Hountomey Jean Robert <<a href="mailto:jrhountomey@gmail.com">jrhountomey@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 30 September 2016 at 5:42:14 AM EAT<br><b>To:</b> AfrICANN Community List <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[AfrICANN-discuss] Four US states demand restraining order to stop the ICANN/IANA transition</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> AfrICANN Community List <<a href="mailto:africann@afrinic.net">africann@afrinic.net</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><p>The attorneys general of ARIZONA, TEXAS, OKLAHOMA and NEVADA demand restraining order with five main claims:</p>
<ul><li>The contract is US government property and requires explicit Congressional approval before it can be handed over.</li><li>The transition would violate the First Amendment.</li><li>The NTIA did not follow the correct public comment procedures.</li><li>The NTIA does not have the authority to hand over the contract.</li><li>The transition does not properly protect the .gov and .mil top-level domains.</li></ul>More at <br><br><a href="https://www.lawfareblog.com/icann-and-iana-transition-end-game-ii">https://www.lawfareblog.com/icann-and-iana-transition-end-game-ii</a><br><div><a href="https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/files/epress/Net_Complaint_-_FILED.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.texasattorneygener<wbr>al.gov/files/epress/Net_<wbr>Complaint_-_FILED.pdf</a></div></div>
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