<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">[French Version below]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">[Version en français au bas]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chers collègues,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">L'AFRINIC fait office de secrétariat et de facilitateur pour soutenir les discussions communautaires et le processus d'élaboration des politiques. Pour remplir ce mandat, AFRINIC fournit un certain nombre de plateformes inclusives, transparentes et ouvertes qui comprennent des réunions publiques et des listes de diffusion.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Suite aux plaintes reçues de plusieurs membres de la communauté sur la virulence des échanges sur les listes de diffusion d'AFRINIC et le nombre croissant de messages isolés provenant d'alias incognito que la communauté a surnommés " Internet trolls", nous avons publié un blog en septembre 2020 sur le Code de conduite. <a href="https://afrinic.net/20200903-code-of-conduct" class="">https://afrinic.net/20200903-code-of-conduct</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Malheureusement, cela n'a pas eu d'effet dissuasif et, par conséquent, l'inscription d'un abonné à notre liste de diffusion communautaire a été révoquée à la suite d'un précédent avertissement adressé à ce dernier.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(<a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-October/003736.html" class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-October/003736.html</a>)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nous attendons également les réactions du comité de gouvernance concernant deux demandes faites par le DG d'AFRINIC en août 2020 :</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Violation du code de conduite sur la liste de diffusion communautaire [<a href="https://afrinic.net/govcom/request#GC2020.04" class="">https://afrinic.net/govcom/request#GC2020.04</a>]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Révision du code de conduite [<a href="https://afrinic.net/govcom/request#GC2020.05" class="">https://afrinic.net/govcom/request#GC2020.05</a>].</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Toutefois, AFRINIC a travaillé sur un plan d'action qui permettra la vérification et l'authentification des utilisateurs de ses listes de diffusion dans notre effort pour protéger la communauté contre les comportements inappropriés. Dans un premier temps, nous avons élaboré un nouveau cadre pour les conditions d'utilisation des listes de diffusion AFRINIC qui régira l'abonnement aux listes de diffusion AFRINIC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://afrinic.net/20210202-afrinic-mailinglists-terms-of-use" class="">https://afrinic.net/20210202-afrinic-mailinglists-terms-of-use</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">À cet égard, nous vous invitons à nous faire part de vos précieux commentaires sur les conditions d'utilisation des listes de diffusion AFRINIC dans la section "Commentaires" de la page (<a href="https://afrinic.net/20210202-afrinic-mailinglists-terms-of-use" class="">https://afrinic.net/20210202-afrinic-mailinglists-terms-of-use</a>).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nous attendons avec impatience de recevoir vos commentaires d'ici le 28 février 2021.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AFRINIC tiendra compte de vos commentaires et prendra ensuite les mesures qu'elle jugera appropriées.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ashil Oogarah</div><div class="">Au nom de l'équipe AFRINIC Communications et RP</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Feb 2021, at 15:17, AFRINIC Communication <<a href="mailto:comms@afrinic.net" class="">comms@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear colleagues,<br class=""><br class="">AFRINIC acts as the secretariat and facilitator to support community discussions and the policy development process. To deliver on this mandate, AFRINIC provides a number of inclusive, transparent and open platforms that include public meetings and mailing lists.<br class=""><br class="">Following complaints received from several community members on the virulence of exchanges on AFRINIC mailing lists and the growing number of one-off posts from incognito aliases that the community dubbed as “Internet trolls”, we published a blog in September 2020 on the Code of Conduct. <a href="https://afrinic.net/20200903-code-of-conduct" class="">https://afrinic.net/20200903-code-of-conduct</a><br class=""><br class="">Unfortunately, that did not act as a deterrent and consequently, the subscription of one subscriber to our Community mailing list was revoked following previous warning issued to the latter.<br class=""><br class="">(<a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-October/003736.html" class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-October/003736.html</a>)<br class=""><br class="">We are also awaiting the feedback from the Governance Committee pertaining to two requests made by the AFRINIC CEO in August 2020:<br class=""><br class="">- Violation of Code of Conduct on Community mailing list [<a href="https://afrinic.net/govcom/request#GC2020.04" class="">https://afrinic.net/govcom/request#GC2020.04</a>]<br class=""><br class="">- Code of Conduct Review [<a href="https://afrinic.net/govcom/request#GC2020.05" class="">https://afrinic.net/govcom/request#GC2020.05</a>].<br class=""><br class="">In the meantime, however, AFRINIC has been working on a plan of actions that will allow for verification and authentication of users of its mailing lists in our effort to safeguard the community from being subject to inappropriate behaviours. As a first step, we have developed a new set of AFRINIC Mailing Lists Terms of Use that will govern one’s subscription to AFRINIC mailing lists.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://afrinic.net/20210202-afrinic-mailinglists-terms-of-use" class="">https://afrinic.net/20210202-afrinic-mailinglists-terms-of-use</a><br class=""><br class="">In this respect, we hereby invite you to provide us with your valuable feedback on the aforesaid AFRINIC Mailing Lists Terms of Use in the comments section of the page (<a href="https://afrinic.net/20210202-afrinic-mailinglists-terms-of-use" class="">https://afrinic.net/20210202-afrinic-mailinglists-terms-of-use</a>).<br class=""><br class="">We look forward to receiving your feedback by 28 February 2021.<br class=""><br class="">AFRINIC shall consider your input and thereafter, take such actions as it may deem appropriate.<br class=""><br class="">Ashil Oogarah<br class="">On behalf of the AFRINIC Communications and PR Team</div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Community-Discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net" class="">Community-Discuss@afrinic.net</a><br class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>