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If the US government wanted to protest, they’d probably do so in a far less incompetent manner.

>ACTO insisted on a face-to-face meeting and Marby duly got on a plane to Brasilia. He was in his hotel room in Brazil’s capital when he was told the meeting had been cancelled due to the political situation in Venezuela.

In the end the ACTO folks didn’t even care enough to meet with the ICANN CEO who had traveled all the way to Brasilia to meet them.

I can’t buy the Venezuela excuse, surely the ACTO gtld experts are not the same people who deal with Venezuela.




> I can’t buy the Venezuela excuse, surely the ACTO gtld experts are not the same people who deal with Venezuela.

It was the foreign minister of Brazil who canceled the meeting, citing the tensions with Venezuela as the reason for cancelation. [0]

[0] https://veja.abril.com.br/blog/radar/chanceler-cancela-reuni...


So uh, the problem was that they didn’t want to participate in the negotiations because Venezuela is also a party in the ACTO?

This seems to solidly prove that they never gave a shit about the gTLD.

Waiting for the ICANN CEO to fly over there before announcing this was just a fundamentally shitty move, it’s not like the tensions with Venezuela were a brand new thing. These people are clearly just assholes.


> This seems to solidly prove that they never gave a shit about the gTLD.

That doesn't make any sense. ACTO disputed .amazon's proposal as soon as it was made available, in 2012. It's been 7 years, circumstances and governments have changed. At the time there were no tensions with Venezuela, in 2019 there were tensions. How does that prove anything about the gTLD?


> How does that prove anything about the gTLD?

It’s a shitty, childish excuse for the refusal to participate in the process. Internal disputes within the ACTO were enough for them to drop the whole thing, if they cared they could’ve proceeded despite the fact that Venezuela is a member of the ACTO.


Send in an underling then.


The problem wasn’t that the FM was busy with more important stuff, it was that Brazil didn’t want to participate in negotiations where Venezuela was a party.

But they also couldn’t be bothered to inform the other participants about this fact until it was way too late...


Tensions don't change if you send the 2nd or 3rd in command instead of the foreign minister.


You do realize it's serious issue in the region when the world's superpower that is known with coups in the region is threatening you your neighbor with force? For people living there, including the politicians, it's not just another news. Sounds more than reasonable excuse to cancel the meeting.


No, I don’t see how this is at all relevant to the gTLD issue.

And yeah, what SpicyLemonZest said.

This is very much “just another news” to the people living there. You’ve got your dates all mixed up. By Feb 2019 this was not even news https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/04/trump-sugges...

Finally, the stated reason for cancellation was that the Brazilian FM did not want to sit in the same table with the Venezuelans. Not any interesting new developments regarding Venezuela.


Respectfully, you’re projecting your own view of the situation onto Brazil. Violent conflict isn’t an unknown thing in the region and Brazil is solidly on the anti-Maduro side.




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