<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 October 2017 at 15:53, Omo Oaiya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Omo.Oaiya@wacren.net" target="_blank">Omo.Oaiya@wacren.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="gmail-"><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 3 Oct 2017, at 06:59, Lu Heng <<a href="mailto:h.lu@anytimechinese.com" target="_blank">h.lu@anytimechinese.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="gmail-m_-3888892058969993002Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div><br class="gmail-m_-3888892058969993002Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div><div>Those ip addresses management clause inside RSA was written by lawyers, not the community. According to bottom up process, only policy can dictate how we use IP addresses.</div></div><br class="gmail-m_-3888892058969993002Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br></span><div>
<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"> It is AfriNIC that facilitates this bottom up process. It is also it responsibility to coordinate the management of INR.   Some might say this is its primary responsibility.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word">Until a policy gets developed by the community, the RSA is the only mechanism available for fufilling this management mandate.   Your interest in removing these clauses from the RSA is probably better served by proposing policy that makes them redundant as Dewole suggests.</div><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word">-Omo </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><br><br></div>
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<br></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra">"My interest" is a weird misinterpretation and completely not true(why must it get personal every time, omo? ) I barely point out the clause that contains IP address management material(and I might have missed some).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Those words are written by lawyers to manage IP addresses - this shouldn't happen in the very first place, because  in the bottom up process, only community-developed policies are able to manage the IP address, which is the golden rule of bottom up process. Operators get to decide how they want to use and manager the very resource they are using instead of lawyers.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">By your logic, if there is a missing item in the policy, we should simply ask lawyers to add it to the RSA until community makes a redundant policy - but this is not how PDP works. PDP is not served as a way to replicate what lawyers wrote. Rather, if you think there is a missing item in the policy, you will have to make a policy proposal, and see if community agrees.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">RSA should in no way serve as a complementary to the policy, rather, they are two independent documents that serve for entirely different purposes. While RSA allows AFRINIC to establish a legal relationship with its members so AFRINIC can be funded, policies are specifically designed to manage internet resources.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--<br>Kind regards.<br>Lu<br><br></div></div></div>
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