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

[Vincent Ngundi]

On Jan 12, 2012, at 5:57 PM, nii quaynor <quaynor at ghana.com> wrote:

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> On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:01 PM, James Blessing wrote:
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>> On 12/01/2012 09:00, Adiel Akplogan wrote:
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>>> Discussions and comments before + during face to face meeting should weight
>>> more than comments during lats call. Doing that we push people to raise
>>> their
>>> point before or during the face to face meeting where consensus will be
>>> sought.
>>> 
>>> We should be clear about when to close the loop, and it is in my sense the
>>> responsibility of the PDWG co-chairs to ensure that.
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>> I think that this is potentially a dangerous route to take as it effectively increases the 'power' of those parts of the community able to make every meeting and therefore favours the larger network operators.
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>> 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 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).
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>> If it is the communities wish to move to a meeting based policy approval process then that is a different situation (and should go through the PDP). In that case all proposal should pass through last call at the meeting itself rather than coming back to the list.
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> How did you conclude this? 
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> The statement said discussions before and at f2f meetings should have more weight than discussions during last call so that cant be only about attending meetings.Last call discussions should focus  on new issues and not repeat past (i.e past + f2f) discussions or it will be difficult to drive to closure

This is how I understood it too.
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Regards,
Vincent