Re: [kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 62, Issue 137
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. Hi McTim, "Because UniForum was apparently selected by the African Union Commission to apply on behalf of the African Community, so we believe that they should apply for a Community TLD in order for their supposed letter of appointment to be valid. If on the other hand, they failed to submit a community TLD application for .AFRICA, then it simply means that they have not lived up to the specious community support that they have received." In a nutshell, they did not receive support to apply for an African-community owned TLD, to end up applying for a standard gTLD. It is fraudulent in our estimation. BTW, McTim you have misspelled 'yoour' in your posting below ;) Gideon Rop, Message: 2
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:15:41 -0400 From: McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> To: Gideon <gideonrop@gmail.com> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Official response to the "facts" circulated by Alice on behalf of DotConnectAfrica Message-ID: <CACAaNxhDKwQaZ50h4_G= WOoajk7taf2mGea_w0-OHo6sfv6mqA@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
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.
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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.
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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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Message: 3 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:13:50 +0300 From: Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com> To: McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com>, KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Official response to the "facts" circulated by Alice on behalf of DotConnectAfrica Message-ID: <CAHSdPfaZEfBzNeMcpXL+ST= zrwHQftyw6gncDO_mZREqyN17Sg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
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@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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On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Gideon <gideonrop@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Hi McTim,
"Because UniForum was apparently selected by the African Union Commission to apply on behalf of the African Community, so we believe that they should apply for a Community TLD in order for their supposed letter of appointment to be valid. If on the other hand, they failed to submit a community TLD application for .AFRICA, then it simply means that they have not lived up to the specious community support that they have received." In a nutshell, they did not receive support to apply for an African-community owned TLD, to end up applying for a standard gTLD. It is fraudulent in our estimation.
Then you haven't read the Applicant Guidebook. They were REQUIRED to get this approval (or non-objection) for a geo-TLD.
BTW, McTim you have misspelled 'yoour' in your posting below ;)
Good catch, it is one thing to have a typo in a post to a mailing list, it is another thing to have typo's in your ICANN Application (and a MONSTER typo that changes the string you are applying for at that!! -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
+1 McTim :-) Ali Hussein On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:29 PM, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Hi McTim,
"Because UniForum was apparently selected by the African Union Commission to apply on behalf of the African Community, so we believe that they should apply for a Community TLD in order for their supposed letter of appointment to be valid. If on the other hand, they failed to submit a community TLD application for .AFRICA, then it simply means that they have not lived up to the specious community support that they have received." In a nutshell,
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Gideon <gideonrop@gmail.com> wrote: they
did not receive support to apply for an African-community owned TLD, to end up applying for a standard gTLD. It is fraudulent in our estimation.
Then you haven't read the Applicant Guidebook.
They were REQUIRED to get this approval (or non-objection) for a geo-TLD.
BTW, McTim you have misspelled 'yoour' in your posting below ;)
Good catch, it is one thing to have a typo in a post to a mailing list, it is another thing to have typo's in your ICANN Application (and a MONSTER typo that changes the string you are applying for at that!!
-- 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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