[npoc-voice] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Re: Africa Domain Name System Forum to be held in Nairobi, Kenya July 6 - 8 2015

Olévié Kouami olivierkouami at GMAIL.COM
Wed Dec 24 04:49:47 EET 2014


@all
I'm sorry.
Anyway, the debate issued is really interesting.
Thanks God !
Season greetings to you all.
-Olevie-


2014-12-24 2:11 GMT+00:00 Sam Lanfranco <lanfran at yorku.ca>:

>  It is unfortunate that Rafik misunderstood the thrust of my private
> comments to Olivie, comments that had been contained in my request that he
> share the AfrICANN notice on the NCSG list, and comments that did not
> constitute the body of the AfrICANN notice and should not have been
> forwarded.  Hence the necessity of this comment:
>
> Rafik details the considerable effort that members of NCSG and its
> individual and organizational members have made to advance DNS in Africa,
> and elsewhere. I and others have always applauded that outreach, and done
> what we can to contribute to those advances. In defense of the actual
> language of the comments, I do lament the fact that the net of
> inclusiveness has not been tossed as wide as it could, while recognizing
> that the ICANN remit is the DNS system, and not the entire Internet
> ecosystem.
>
> When *Alain Berranger* asked me to join NPOC, representing the Canadian
> Society for International Health (CSIH) it was both to help address how
> NPOC could help the diverse NPO constituency have a more aware and engaged
> presence in policy issues within ICANN's remit, for example around the
> .health gTLD. However, at the same time it was help NPOC also turn around
> 180 degrees and help NPOs strengthen their awareness and engagement in
> Internet ecosystem policy issues beyond ICANN's remit. NPOC constituency
> organizations typically have non-DNS and non-Internet ecosystem concerns as
> primary to their own mission. Contrast for example, the likely Internet
> policy concerns of ISOC-Canada with those of Canada's CSIH. That was the
> issue I discussed in my previous NCSG posting. Claiming there is more to be
> done no way belittles what still has been done. Internet nirvana is not
> just around the next bend in the road.
>
> Sam L.
>



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