My reply to my egyptian counterpart. And now I turn my attention to the egyptian press. Regards Joe Baptista P.S. Israel get's hit tommorrow. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 04:32:29 -0500 (EST) From: !Dr. Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eng.\\ Ahmed Mohy El-Din Ahmed Nasr" Subject: Re: We All Respect our President, So we Respect our Country., Stop your silly letters Dear Dr. Eng. Nasr: I would ask that you take the time to carefully read my messages to you and not make these embarrasing assumptions, which i have addressed here in detail. I however want to make it very clear that your rudeness is inexcusable. Kindly mind your manners in future. First of all - I have no idea what homepage you are reffereing to. If you mean the page published at http://www.earth-net.net/mahir-icann/ , then let me make it very clear to you that I find such allegation slanderous, frivolous, vexatious and libel. Those are not my pages sir. Those pages came to my attention recently that president Mubarak was being slandered for his participation in ICANN. I sir am not impressed by these pages and find them an embarrasment to the president and his government. I sir am a strong supporter of the Arab people. And that support took an active role during the russian war in afganistan. So Eng. Nasr I ask that you not insult me with your gibberish and concentrate instead on the issue of importance. Obviously I have failed in my duty to educate you. Therefore I will take the time now to explain again the facts as they relate to President Mubarak. I believe that the slander contained at; http://www.earth-net.net/mahir-icann/ is inappropriate. Indeed President Mubarak is a good man who has navigated Egypt through a difficult time in it's evolution. Which begs the question - why is Mubarak risking public embarrasment by associating with an entity which is now well know as being the most corrupt organization on the internet. These are not my words Eng. Nasr, these are the words of respect members of the internet community. In response to the Markle funded study by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) and Common Cause on how voices from the worldwide Internet community can best be represented in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), http://www.commoncause.org/icann/study.htm, the Domain Name Rights Coalition today announced ICANN has serious problem and is failing to represent the internet community. Groups like the well known ICIIU are actively protesting and accusing ICANN of breaking the US law (which see http://www.iciiu.org/Protest.htm) Cook - a well respect internet analyst is warning against ICANN in his April 2000 COOK Report on Internet at http://cookreport.com/09.01.shtml Essays, pp. 23- 27. But if this does not convince you sir, then what about the simple fact that ICANN is determined white and anglo saxon while the arab world has to wait to share in the internets riches? How will the arab world see Mubarak if he supports an organization which refuses to exand the full potential of the internet to the arab population. I don't know if you understand the issues here Eng. Nasr. I will try to explain. Your email address contains two parts. A login address and the domain name, in your case it is iti-idsc.gov.eg. Now - are you aware that the domain name system which ICANN regulates can now support ISO8859-6 (Arabic), which includes Arabic (ar) Persian (fa) Pakistani and Urdu (ur). This means Eng. Nasr that you can have an arabic email address, you can have an arabic domain name. Don't you think Eng. Nasr that it would be a benefit to the people and government of Egypt to be able to communicate and navigate the internet in their own language, instead of being restricted to english. Well the facts Eng. Nasr is that ICANN refuses to incorporate this into the domain name system and they have been avoiding for months the question of creating the domain name .eu on behalf of the european union. It's all on record Eng. Nasr. One only has too look. Indeed I think the only reason that Mubarak is giving his attention to this abortion of the United States government is that he has no idea, no intellegence of what they are about. The internet is also in the dark over this. If internet users were fully aware of the criminal aspects of this organization the results would be more devastating then the battle of Seattle, if you remember the last WTO meeting. I in fact am urging the government of Egypt to take a stand through President Mubarak and demand the introduction of Arabic into the Domain Name Structure that ICANN regulates. Kindest regards Joe Baptista On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Eng.\ Ahmed Mohy El-Din Ahmed Nasr wrote: > You There, > Stop your stupid messages. I may disagree with some policies in Egypt >but > does not mean any way to make what you did, you know what I mean "your home > page, what you do does not heart a specific person but it hearts Egypt and > all the Egyptian because it is symbol for all Egyptian, > Again sotp your stupid messages and it is better to remove these silly web > pages. > N.B.: we, All Egyptian, espect our president and we will never let any body > succeed to put doubts in our hearts. > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 1:29 PM > To: gov.eg > Subject: Mubarak's address to ICANN- > > > Hello: > > I am following up with you on my prior message with further > information concerning President's Mubaraks address to ICANN > > http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article/0,1087,4_315131,00.html > > Regards > Joe Baptista