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Letter of Support for ICANN for the formation of an IDNgTLDc
- To: idngtld-petition@xxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Letter of Support for ICANN for the formation of an IDNgTLDc
- From: nyosef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:39:08 -0700
<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000;
font-size:10pt;"><div><BR>May 18, 2009</div>
<div> </div>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family:
'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2>Letter of support for ICANN
for launching IDN GTLD constituency in GNSO.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family:
'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2>The Principals of
DotConnectAfrica organization has been very instrumental in bringing the policy
need of IDNs within GNSO, organizing a workgroup and active participation
of authoring the IDN guidelines that are now have received voices by the
relevant communities, government representatives and exercises being taken
under the IDN fast track. Additionally, others who are also
involved with the same organization have worked in various capacities towards
the goal of development of IDNs over the internet.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family:
'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family:
'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2>Therefore, we would like to
jointly express the support for the IDNgTLDC as part of the GNSO structure for
the following reasons.</FONT></P>
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justify"><FONT size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 22.5pt;
VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; TEXT-INDENT: -22.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT style="COLOR:
black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black><FONT
style="mso-list: Ignore">a.<FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; LINE-HEIGHT:
normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal" face="Times New Roman"
size=2> </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT style="COLOR: black;
FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';
mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"
face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black>Many of the government entities ,
particularly those who have their own key national languages will be forced to
resort to seek issue resolution indirectly via GAC which is not a policy making
body to express its policy concerns, which is unfair. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 22.5pt;
VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; TEXT-INDENT: -22.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT style="COLOR:
black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family:
Verdana; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black><FONT
style="mso-list: Ignore">b.<FONT style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal; LINE-HEIGHT:
normal; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-VARIANT: normal" face="Times New Roman"
size=2> </FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT style="COLOR: black;
FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';
mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"
face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black>It is very well known fact that, GAC does
not have the capacity nor the involvement rates to effect much change in this
area as policy making in IDNs are too complex and decisions need not be flat,
as local laws which control the carious issues are different for each country.
</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 22.5pt;
VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; TEXT-INDENT: -22.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT style="COLOR:
black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';
mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"
face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2>c. Serious consideration
must be made by the GNSO and ICANN Board to ensure the current
restructured GNSO is flexible and creative to accommodate this much needed
group as complimentary and useful to the overarching goals of ICANN. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 22.5pt;
VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; TEXT-INDENT: -22.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT style="COLOR:
black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';
mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"
face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2>d. ICANN has come a
long way from its past of having a "flat" view of the world and not
understanding the underlying realities of how the world is really divided
today. As a result of the policy accommodations it has made in the past
on IDNs, ICANN is now being seen as an organization that is beginning to
understand Internet is a global entity. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 22.5pt;
VERTICAL-ALIGN: middle; TEXT-INDENT: -22.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><FONT style="COLOR:
black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';
mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"
face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2>e. This means that
despite that the internet is controlled by USA, ICANN is to be seen as
attempting to address and accommodate the view that the real world is made up
of borders, nations, cultures, languages, and local laws etc; therefore
approving the IDNgTLDS will be just that. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 22.5pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal;
TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><FONT style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: ;
mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New
Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black
size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family:
'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2>Part and partial of these
group applying for the constituency IDNgTLD are made up of businesses,
non-profits and individuals has in the past voiced that ICANN has operated for
a decade on the former global view - which naturally pushes the causes of
interest of the people who are relatively on top of that global structure to
the front (diverse needed ASCII domains, western company patent rights, western
lawyer notions of privacy/whois, western ideas of acceptable domain speculation
/domineering), at the expense of the rest of the world, i.e IDN policies being
launched a decade later.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family:
'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family:
'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2>However, some of the
Constituency applicants are also the same voices that have actively
contributed and shaped the policy of IDNs within ICANN; the same group that are
approaching ICANN to assist in policy and also represent the voices of the
global village that need this representation so badly. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family:
'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family:
'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt" face=Verdana,sans-serif color=black size=2>On behalf of
DotConnectAfrica organization, and myself, I submit support to the IDNgTLDC
constituency. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT face=Calibri></FONT> </P><FONT face=Calibri>
<div><FONT size=3>Nebiyu Yoseph</FONT></div>
<div><FONT size=3>Project Coordinator (DotAfrica)</FONT></div>
<div><A href="mailto:nyosef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
mce_href="mailto:nyosef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";><FONT
size=3>nyosef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</FONT></A></div>
<div><A href="http://www.dotconnectafrica.org/";
mce_href="http://www.dotconnectafrica.org";><FONT
size=3>www.dotconnectafrica.org</FONT></A></div></FONT>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><B><FONT style="COLOR: black" color=black><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><B><FONT style="COLOR: black" color=black><FONT size=3><FONT
face=Calibri>DotConnectAfrica Organization</FONT></FONT></FONT></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN:
justify"><FONT face=Calibri><FONT style="COLOR: black" color=black
size=3>DotConnectAfrica (DCA) is a non-Partisan, not-for profit policy
think-tank inspired to come to fruition by the lack of adequate internet policy
in Africa and an acknowledgment of the impact of this policy in widening the
gaps of the digital divide. DCA seeks to assist in the strategic coordination
of government internet policies, establish priorities, offer new policy
choices, and ensure that the implications of internet policy options are fully
considered</FONT><FONT style="COLOR: black" color=black><FONT
size=3>. </FONT></FONT><FONT style="COLOR: black" color=black
size=3>DCA's main objective is to initiate, promote, influence, shape and
advice on policy that is conducive to assist African Countries in tuning to the
emerging <FONT class=yshortcuts id=lw_1242688951_5>internet governance
issues</FONT> and concerns that affect the growth and stability of the Internet
in the countries</FONT></FONT></P></span></body></html>
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