[Community-Discuss] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Report of the AFRINIC Open Mic Session on June 20

[DANIEL NANGHAKA]

Dear All,

I have read the report and acknowledge that this is a great report and
provides appropriate action points to be considered.

Kind Regards
Daniel K. Nanghaka
ᐧ

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 10:42, Sami Salih <sami.salih at outlook.com> wrote:


> Thank you Internet Society’s Africa, and Thank you Dawit and Michuki,

> This is what we expected from ISOC and from you as real Africans who

> really cares about the stability of this continent.

>

> Few points I would like to highlight as follows:

>

> 1) The Board can never viewed as part of any problem (I prefer use issues

> instead) if and only if we (I will always use WE as we are one community)

> increase the level of transparency. However, increasing transparency DID

> NOT mean to disclose everything. While I personally support disclosing the

> methodologies use to take decisions, I believe this is to be evaluated by

> the board its self to decide on the information to be share with members,

> community, etc. Overall, the board needed to build a trusted relationship

> with the community.

>

> 2) Engagement is always good thing, semi-annual meeting with one of them

> organized with AFNOG and accommodate Af* is what we practices for a while.

> Is this enough or not is not easy to judge by simply take individual views

> in such session. We need to consider that over-engagement will negatively

> affect the organization not only in term of financial cost but also the

> cost of the stability of running the organization, as we need to give

> board, staff etc a peaceful environment to act and innovate. Substantially,

> engagement is a two way process, let us see how we can encourage the other

> parts (than AFRINIC) to initiate engagement initiatives.  ;-)

>

> 3) Enforce the CC is an urgent requirement not only the personal attack

> but other hostile activities against the organization and its stability.

> This is not an easy task, I experienced this during my long term as PDWG

> Co-, with the population of the community and the diversity of individual

> and the groups while taking into consideration the number of contributions

> especially before and after the meeting, its really difficult to moderate

> the list in a way that satisfying the community and reflect a better image

> of the glob. We need to tolerate some and stickily avoid/mitigate/prevent

> or even ban unacceptable locution. This is again a big dilemma as

> continuous monitoring and instant judgement not an easy task to be

> achieved. The better way in my perspective is to count on the community

> maturity to tolerate and ignore bad things posted in an angry moment.

> In this regard, I propose to have a dedicated group or sub-group may be

> under Governance Committee to enforce CC in the mailing list and during the

> meeting and other sessions.

>

> 4) The  legal interpretations and other bylaw issues can't be discussed in

> such details during open mic, only specialists in a small dedicated group

> can provide useful contributions and suggested the way-forward. As you can

> notice different views and different wishes are expressed at the end only

> specialist can enlightening and guide the community to respect the local

> laws and maintain the spirit of the bottom-up system for RIRs.

>

> 5) In page (3) please remove/rephrase this sentence "....  vote on policy

> proposals. ..." cos its not accurate.

>

> 6) I would also propose that the Nomination and Election processes to be

> conducted by the governance committee, or at least they need to set a clear

> rule and procedure for those sensitive activities.

>

> Once again I would like to thank Dawit and Michuki for this detailed

> report and their observations and proposals.

>

> Regards,

>

>

> *Sami H.O. Salih, PhD., PMP*®

> Assistant Prof, School of Electronics Engineering,

> Sudan University of Science and Technology,

> sami.salih at sustech.edu

> ------------------------------

> *From:* Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu>

> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 24, 2019 12:51 AM

> *To:* community-discuss at afrinic.net <community-discuss at afrinic.net>

> *Subject:* Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Report of the

> AFRINIC Open Mic Session on June 20

>

> Good work, Mich and team!

>

> Mark.

>

> On 23/Jul/19 22:30, Noah wrote:

>

> Dear Dawit and Michuki

>

> Thanks you so much for this report and having read through it, I find it

> very accurate as it covers the accounts of the said deliberations. We hope

> all stakeholders will consider the content of the report and act upon it.

>

> Looking forward to more engagement and collaboration.

>

> Cheers

> Noah

>

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------

> From: *Dawit Bekele* <bekele at isoc.org>

> Date: Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:40 PM

> Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Report of the AFRINIC Open Mic Session on June

> 20

> To: AfrICANN Community List <africann at afrinic.net>

>

>

> Hi all,

>

> As you might remember, AFRINIC board asked Michuki and I to moderate the

> open mic discussion after the board meeting on June 20. We accepted the

> request and moderated the meeting as best as we could. With some delay, we

> have prepared a report of the meeting that we would like to share here

> (attached). We focused on reporting on the issues raised rather than

> providing detailed minutes of the discussion.

>

> Please let us know if there is any inaccuracy so that we make corrections

> before submitting a final version.

>

> Thank you,

>

> Dawit Bekele and Michuki Mwangi

>

> Internet Society

>

> African Regional Bureau

>

>

>

>

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