<p dir="ltr">We can disagree on this Milton, I never mentioned public interest in my statement! My views were derived from the buildup and not the final conclusion. Look at the second to the last paragraph of section D. I quote relevant part below:</p>
<p dir="ltr">"....ICANN argues that a delay in delegating .Africa will prejudice the African community’s efforts <br>
to participate in the Internet economy and strengthen their technology sectors....", </p>
<p dir="ltr">Then the court says:</p>
<p dir="ltr">"....The AUC’s relationship with ZACR, and its interest in preventing the delay of issuing rights to .Africa creates a conflict of interest.Therefore, on this point, the
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Court accords little weight to the Yedaly Declaration ..."</p>
<p dir="ltr">SO: The AUC supported ZACR (as part of the application requirement), I find it quite unfortunate that such further view from AUC would be found to create conflict of interest. If AUC did not write such, who else should do so; I mean which other source of interest from Africa will not form conflict in this matter?</p>
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"...On balance, the Court finds it more *prejudicial to
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the African community*....., if the delegation of .Africa is made...."<br>
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SO: That is the section that provoked my previous view and I still stand by it; Who is the US court to conclude that it will be harmful to Africa community even when the AUC is pushing otherwise. This process has just taken too long than necessary.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Nevertheless, I will stop here and look forward to the outcome of the case filed by ICANN as indicated by Paul.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sent from my LG G4<br>
Kindly excuse brevity and typos</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 Apr 2016 5:34 p.m., "Mueller, Milton L" <<a href="mailto:milton@gatech.edu">milton@gatech.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Seun<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The court does not make a ruling on the public interest of Africans. It makes a ruling on the right of DCA to obtain an injunction against ICANN to stop it from
delegating the name. Its approach to the public interest in this case is that “</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">the public has an
interest in the fair and transparent application process that grants gTLD rights.” This pertains to ICANN globally, not to Africans specifically.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f4e79">In other words, the court is not ruling about whether .Africa being run by DCA or the
AUC is better, it is deciding that ICANN’s process for making the decision was unfair and biased.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Seun Ojedeji<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 13, 2016 12:20 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nigel Roberts <<a href="mailto:nigel@channelisles.net" target="_blank">nigel@channelisles.net</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:accountability-cross-community@icann.org" target="_blank">accountability-cross-community@icann.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CCWG-ACCT] .Africa Preliminary Injunction<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p>Isn't it interesting that a US court is able to determine that delegating .Africa is harmful to Africa internet users even though AU affirms otherwise.
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<p>Things like this is what makes some to always raise ICANN jurisdiction issue. Nevertheless, I will recognise the fact that any other jurisdiction court could also act in a similar manner.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>That said, I had thought there would be indications on what date the next hearing will be (to ascertain the supposed fairness)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p>Regards<br>
Sent from my LG G4<br>
Kindly excuse brevity and typos<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 13 Apr 2016 5:03 p.m., "Nigel Roberts" <<a href="mailto:nigel@channelisles.net" target="_blank">nigel@channelisles.net</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The 'public interest' is exactly what it says.. The global public.<br>
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He refers SPECIFICALLY to the African internet users' public interest in the judgment.<br>
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the African community, and the international community in general, if the delegation of .Africa is made<br>
prior to a determination on the fairness of the process by which it was delegated.<u></u><u></u></p>
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