[AfriNIC-rpd] Proposal for Policy Development Process in the AfriNIC service region

[ALAIN AINA]

On Mar 19, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Vincent Ngundi wrote:

> Dear All,
>  
> This is to clarify a few issues with regards to the AfriNIC Policy Development Process (PDP) arising from the discussions on the proposed NEW PDP.
>  
> 1. Public Policy Meeting Agenda
> The agenda for the public policy meeting is prepared by the PDP-MG in conjunction with the secretariat.
> 
> 
Who composes the secretariat. The PDP has no provision for a secretariat.

> Generally, the agenda contains:
> • Presentation (by authors) and face-to-face discussions on the current policy proposals in line with the PDP;
> • An update of the PDP-MG activities; and,
> • An Open Q&A session (AOB).
> 

The PDP says nothing about this.  When should  the agenda be published?



>  
> 2. Chair of the Public Policy Meeting
> The AfriNIC Public Policy meetings are chaired by the Chair of the PDP-MG or one of the other two co-chairs.
> 
What's about meeting minutes? when should them be published about the meeting ? 


> 3. PDP-MG Terms of Reference (TOR) and Elections Procedure
> Please note that the PDP-MG TORs and Elections Procedure were discussed during the AfriNIC-8 meeting in Rabat. A copy of the same is available at: http://meeting.afrinic.net/afrinic9/pdp-mg_election.htm
> 

The PDP does not have a referral to the TOR. So when i read the PDP, i don't see what details of what the "to moderate and coordinate the policy development process and discussions" means.
>  
> 4. Proposed Way Forward
> There's no need for a NEW policy proposal.
> 
Is this a decision?    
> Instead, improvements should be made on the current PDP. In this regard, we recommend that the author of the current policy proposal reviews his policy proposal to reflect the same.
> 
> 

How  do we  improve the existing PDP other than what the proposal is trying to do?

> Please note that the current PDP is an improvement of the original PDP.
> 
> 

....and if i remember well,  this happened through a new proposal.


hope this helps


--alain


> Regards,
> 
> Vincent Ngundi
> Chair, AfriNIC PDP-MG
> 
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