In an interesting follow up response to last week’s BBC Click Program discussion on .Africa dispute, the head of the ICANN’s Global Domains Division Akram Atallah tried to clarify the issue of the wrongdoing and alleged coverup make by ICANN on the .africa DCA VS ICANN IRP case, which DCA prevailed in. Most interestingly, he …
The .Africa gTLD domain IRP saga between DCA Trust the applicant and ICANN has been discussed on several platforms as the precedential case, on 29 July 2015, the BBC Program called the ‘BBC Click’ discussed the findings of the Independent Review Panel (IRP). According to the discussion: “It is alleged that staff at domain-name overseer …
The .Africa IRP has finally been ruled in favour of DotConnectAfrica Trust as the prevailing partly in case that has dragged for two years. The panel that comprised of Mr. Babak Barin who was President of Panel, Professor (Dr.) Catherine Kessedjian, and the Honourable Judge William J. Cahill, a retired San Francisco Superior Court Judge …
Africans represented by African Union Commission at ICANN has come again to show disregard to the importance of following set structures. The issue at the center of the .Africa domain debate is not so much in the timing of the accountability procedures applied, but time and again it has been shown to be much on …
ICANN wants total control of DNS while breaking its own bylaws to block .africa probe Source: By Kieren McCarthy on theregister.co.uk ICANN broke its own bylaws – and acted in a way “fundamentally inconsistent” with its role as the world’s DNS overlord – while restricting efforts to make itself more accountable to netizens.That striking judgment …
ICANN wants the .africa Tribunal to Accept Witness Statement on Face value! A new update has emerged from the ICDR-led Independent Review Process (IRP) International Tribunal that is tasked with deciding the legal dispute between DotConnectAfrica Trust and ICANN over the .Africa new gTLD name string. Tribunal’s clarification to key procedural matters on the IRP hearing …
DCA has won yet another IRP duel after the Panel ruled in favor of its own arguments. The Panel arbitrating the DCA Trust vs. ICANN IRP has declared that; “After deliberation and careful consideration by all three Panel member o the Parties respective submissions and supporting authorities, the Panel is unanimously of the view that …
The one million dollar question however is: “If the ICANN CEO thinks that the CWG does not understand how the IANA functions work, and no body else understands it but ICANN, then why give such an important responsibility of aspects of the IANA Transition proposal to a group of people that presumably do not understand how the …
A public discussion of the outcome of the first ICANN IRP ruling of the new gTLD process has found its way to the Cross-Community Working Group as one of the current topics on Enhancing ICANN Accountability. Whereas the entire ICANN community appears to work towards ways to improve the ICANN accountability mechanism some members from …
“ Equally, this exclusion treatment given to DCA by ICANN was understood by many Africans, as well as the closely observing global ICANN community, as an attempt to endear a selection process of who should be representing Africa, due to the high stakes over the .africa gTLD – a sort of .africa Magna Carta, if …