<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 July 2015 at 18:49, Rinalia Abdul Rahim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rinalia.abdulrahim@gmail.com" target="_blank">rinalia.abdulrahim@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Dear ALAC and AFRALO,</p>
<p dir="ltr">Please find attached a press release and Board resolution on .africa.</p>
<p dir="ltr">> <a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-07-16-en" target="_blank">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-07-16-en</a></p></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">Hi Rinalia,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">I find <a href="http://www.prlog.org/12474214-breaking-news-dotconnectafrica-trust-wins-resounding-victory-against-icann-in-irp-accountability.html">the DCA spin on the events</a> to be much more colourful. Sophia is the source of more unintentional entertainment than anything else in ICANN.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">A "resounding victory"? Winning the right to challenge for one more gTLD that will likely crash and burn like the others? Saner registry-wannabes would have gladly taken the opportunity to get out with their bank accounts, sanity and reputations reasonably intact.</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Evan Leibovitch</div><div style="text-align:left">Geneva, CH</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Em: evan at telly dot org</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Sk: evanleibovitch</div></div><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:left">Tw: el56</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div>
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