<p dir="ltr">Hello Hago,</p>
<p dir="ltr">I must say I find your writeup quite concerning. There are some part of it that indicate that ICANN discriminate in the participation of Sudanese individual/organisation(pardon me if I may have mis-understood your writeup as it&#39;s flow is not very smooth), would you say this is as a result of the sanctions from US  government? as I have been made to understand that it is only when there are issues relating to licensing that ICANN is perceived to act as such (because she  ofcourse has to obey the law).<br>

I definitely can&#39;t imagine how you feel about all this (but I know you don&#39;t feel good :)). Has some of these issues been taken up with ICANN directly? and was their response indicative of the fact that they are obeying the rule of law (as a result of the sanction)</p>

<p dir="ltr">Kind Regards</p>
<p dir="ltr">sent from Google nexus 4<br>
kindly excuse brevity and typos.</p>
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   Thanks</div><div style="display:block"><br></div><div style="display:block">Hago Dafalla</div><div style="display:block">Sudan</div><div style="display:block"><br> <br> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,Arial,&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">
 <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,&#39;Helvetica Neue&#39;,Helvetica,Arial,&#39;Lucida Grande&#39;,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> On Wednesday, 19 March 2014, 0:09, S Moonesamy &lt;<a href="mailto:sm%2B1net@elandsys.com" target="_blank">sm+1net@elandsys.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
 </font> </div>  <div>Hi Seun,<br>At 11:13 18-03-2014, Seun Ojedeji wrote:<br>&gt;My  understanding is that this political sanctions does not affect <br>&gt;internet operation in those regions especially as it relates to <br>
&gt;names and IP resources. Are you saying this is not practically the <br>&gt;case? i.e does ICANN threat requests from those region differently <br>&gt;from others due to  governmental political sanctions?<br><br>The above questions are about the past.  The Root zone has been <br>
working up to now.  There has been a few issues, e.g. see the .nz <br>comments.  These issues haven&#39;t affected the Root zone.  Will it be <br>in the
 interest of the relevant government not to exercise sanctions in future?<br><br>Regards,<br>S. Moonesamy <br><br><br><br></div>  </div> </div>  </div> </div></div></blockquote></div>