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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On Wednesday 13 April 2016 09:50 PM,
Seun Ojedeji wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">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. </p>
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Extremely interesting, and completely unacceptable! US independence
was fought on the slogan "no taxation without representation", which
is same as "no legal authority without representation" <br>
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Unfortunately, however, decades on, we see an erosion of democratic
value and spirits, when one would expect us to be making progress.
We seem ready today to accept legal authority without
representation. Unfortunately, a lot of non US people join in to
accept increasing application of US jurisdiction over an increasing
extent of global affairs. With the domain system itself being used
as a powerful new instrument of such extra-territorial
(illegitimate) jurisdiction - even more so now than ever before with
the new gTLDs being made easily available. <br>
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Last month I wrote <a
href="http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/why-the-internet-isnt-just-free-yet/article8386172.ece">this
oped in an top Indian daily</a> about how without sorting out the
jurisdiction issue - and moving to an international jurisdiction -
oversight transition achieves very little if anything. <br>
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<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
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No, an international jurisdiction and legitimate institutions of its
enforcement would genuinely and legitimately uphold global public
interest. To repeat, US courts have no locus standi or right to do
so, and would especially fail when one of the contesting party would
be US based, which is a kind of case we can expect to also come up
sooner than later, and about which all of us seem to be in complete
denial... A solid example of such denial is that no stress test on
this issue/ aspect has been done in the oversight transition process
despite repeated requests including by me. <br>
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parminder <br>
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<p dir="ltr">That said, I had thought there would be indications
on what date the next hearing will be (to ascertain the supposed
fairness)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards<br>
Sent from my LG G4<br>
Kindly excuse brevity and typos</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 Apr 2016 5:03 p.m., "Nigel Roberts"
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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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As follows:<br>
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On balance, the Court finds it more prejudicial to<br>
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.<br>
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