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Letter to ICANN Board requesting an Official Public Answer to the Reserve names request by African Union Commission
DCA trust wrote this commentary as a response to the ICANN's Official Response to African Union on Request to Reserve DotAfrica Name who stated that "ICANN is not able to take actions that would go outside of the community-established and documented guideline of the program to provide the special treatment you have requested. ICANN does wish to explain, however that protections exist that will allow the African Union and its member states to play a prominent role in determining the outcome of any application for these top-level domain name strings." This was taken to be a strong vindication for DCA’s strong opposition on reserving .africa related names.
DCA trust wrote this commentary as a response to the ICANN's Official Response to African Union on Request to Reserve DotAfrica Name who stated that "ICANN is not able to take actions that would go outside of the community-established and documented guideline of the program to provide the special treatment you have requested. ICANN does wish to explain, however that protections exist that will allow the African Union and its member states to play a prominent role in determining the outcome of any application for these top-level domain name strings." This was taken to be a strong vindication for DCA’s strong opposition on reserving .africa related names.
<ref>[http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1109563755493.html DCA Exclusive Commentary: A Moral Victory: ICANN response to AU]</ref>
<ref>[http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs053/1102516344150/archive/1109563755493.html DCA Exclusive Commentary: A Moral Victory: ICANN response to AU]</ref>
====DCA Letter to ICANN: A Request for the Official Public Answer from ICANN to the Request made by the AUC to Include DotAfrica in the Top-Level Reserved Names List====
Immediately after the Dakar Ministerial roundtable meeting that proposed for the reservation of .africa related names, DCA wrote a letter to ICANN to seek clarifications on the resolutions that had been made.
DCA said that We believe that if ICANN accedes to this extraordinary request by the African Union, this will automatically make the DotAfrica gTLD string unavailable, and could stop prospective applicants such as DCA from further participation in the process.<ref>[http://www.dotconnectafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Letter-to-ICANN-Board-requesting-an-Official-Public-Answer-to-the-Reserve-names-request-by-African-Union-Commission-19Dec2011.pdf Letter to ICANN Board requesting an Official Public Answer to the Reserve names request by African Union Commission]</ref>
====DCA Exclusive Commentary:Official response to the draft resolution of meeting of experts and the African Ministerial ROUND-Table in Dakar for the 'African Agenda ICANN====
====DCA Exclusive Commentary:Official response to the draft resolution of meeting of experts and the African Ministerial ROUND-Table in Dakar for the 'African Agenda ICANN====