Apologies for the incorrect Subject line. el
On 2022-09-22 22:57 , Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > Some thoughts on the session: > > Basically most of the session time was wasted with > approximately 10 addresses by the usual suspects all of which > had the same content, namely exactly zero. > > This is not new, it has been unchanged approximately since I > have attended the first meeting many years ago. > > The only exception was Alan Barrett who then however faced > headwind for making the practical and good suggestion of > clients to engage their providers if and when these do not > provide Universal Access. > > Several speakers (in particular the (outgoing African) Board > Members who should have ample opportunity to actually do > something about it (but NEVER do)) pontificated about how > important it would be to have ICANN Meetings in Africa. > > While I am all in favor of that, in particular in Namibia, the > Chair wasted the opportunity to engage ICANN's CEO on this, > which had to be done by Sébastien Bachollet and even in > English, pointing out that one of the reasons to create the > smaller ICANN (policy) meetings was to have reduced > requirements in oder to be able to hold meetings in developing > countries. > > Of course he was fobbed off, and, in a manner which I consider > bordering the line of ICANN's Standards of Acceptable > Behavior. > > The point is not that we need to have meetings in all ICANN > regions and in particular in Africa, which we do, and we all > know that, the question is why ICANN is not doing it or > anything about it? > > Well, I think, this is because the "paying" stakeholders do > not wish to meet in less than 5 star environments close to > major airports, let alone transit. > > This US-centricity which is patently obvious in so many ICANN > aspects is, in my view, not compatible with the multi > stakeholder model. > > Fortunately there was no time to review or even debate the > "statement", which mostly nobody reads, but most certainly is > never acted upon. > > greetings, el -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist [email protected] / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 Bachbrecht \ / If this email is signed with GPG/PGP 10007, Namibia ;____/ Sect 20 of Act No 4 of 2019 may apply _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann
