[AfriNIC-rpd] Call for Comments: Draft Minutes of Public Policy Meeting during AfriNIC-15 in Yaounde

[SM]

Hi James,
At 06:01 12-01-2012, James Blessing wrote:
>The PDWG chairs should be able to weigh the 'value' of the 
>individual contributions on their own without being 'forced' to do 
>so. As has already been point out the ability for

The discussion is not about restricting the ability of PDWG chairs to 
exercise their judgement.  It is also not about the "value" of 
individual contributors.  It is about weighing the ideas and not who 
is saying it.  As an example, let's say that a person from Africa 
argues for X and someone from the U.S. argues against X.  The person 
from the U.S. is a well-known contributor.  Should less "value" be 
given to the person from Africa?

>  remote participation at the the last meeting was very poor and 
> (should there have been something major being discussed before 
> being moved to last call) therefore any comments made by those 
> remote members would have be devalued through no fault of their own 
> (apart from not being able to attend the meeting).

Yes.

Regards,
-sm