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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Many of the items in the CoC are open and broad (13 being the most broad), and carry the expectation that the community comprises adults that behave accordingly. The ‘good faith’ with which AFRINIC expects its members to act with will have to go both ways, as Owen pointed out the CoC can easily become a two-edged sword. Perhaps the ‘best interests of the community’ bit can have its own general outlines. As far as I am concerned, any debate pertaining to the operations of AFRINIC are in the best interests of AFRINIC. But even then, that is left up to debate between AFRINIC and the community.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“In the case of community mailing lists, the CEO or staff will not take action without complaint.” From a cybersecurity perspective, the mailing lists can easily run rampant with harmful links and malware. The laissez-faire approach to the mailing lists is refreshing, but creates opportunity for foul play; the community will have to act as its own neighborhood watch for it to be effective. Reporting users may feel vindictive in nature and can create a gang mentality to mob on others. Reviewing these complaints can become expensive, exhausting, and time consuming for the CEO and/or staff to deliberate over. The only impetus for complying with the CoC is its enforcement—a passive deterrent at best and a time consuming process at worst. The latter is a path this mailing list can easily venture down should we stray away from the expectation to act as adults. ‘We’ being both the community and AFRINIC. Especially in the case of spam and malware, perhaps AFRINIC should invest in automated scanning to preemptively save us and itself from those time consuming processes. Just a thought.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-Brian</p><p class=MsoNormal><br> <br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>