[rpd] Merges/Acquisitions/Closures document

[Andrew Alston]

Hi McTim,

See this is my question.  If this IS a set of procedures, then things it lacks clarity on either need more process, or policy.

An example (which I assume that up till now would be dealt with under this policy):

A holding company owns 8 op-co’s.  Those entities continue to exist, but the holding companies wishes to merge all their resources into the holding company to create a single administrative entity which then sub-assigns to its op-co’s.  Now, technically this is not a merger nor an acquisition, and the IP space will continue to be USED by the entities that it was assigned to and for the same purpose.  However, it is merged into the holding the company so that there is ONE member and ONE administrative entity.

Is a situation like that covered under this document?  My reading is, not entirely, but its so damn close, that to cover a situation like that would require some minor additions / re-works of that document.  Now, does that require a request to AfriNIC or can that situation be handled through the PdP to modify a document that wasn’t authored through the PdP?

Thoughts?

Andrew


From: McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com<mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com>>
Date: Wednesday 19 February 2014 at 6:41 PM
To: Andrew Alston <andrew.alston at liquidtelecom.com<mailto:andrew.alston at liquidtelecom.com>>
Cc: "rpd at afrinic.net<mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>" <rpd at afrinic.net<mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>>
Subject: Re: [rpd] Merges/Acquisitions/Closures document

Looks to me like a set of procedures, not policies.

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Cheers,

McTim
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com<mailto:Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com>> wrote:
Hi All,

I’m putting this as a general question to the Policy list and I would also like AfriNIC response to this.

AfriNIC has a document referenced at the following location:

http://www.afrinic.net/en/library/membership-documents/921-mergers-acquisitions-takeovers-and-closures-of-lirend-user

Now this to me looks distinctly like policy, though it has NOT been through the PDP list.  So I would like to ask, does this document pre-date the PdP or did it bypass the PdP entirely?

In either case, with it NOT being a document that has gone through the PdP, should a member or individual wish changes in this document, is it possible to propose policy that amends this document to address omissions etc?

If this document does NOT pre-date the PdP, can we also please get an explanation from AfriNIC as to why this was not put through the policy process since my reading of this document is that it contains elements which are very definitely questions of policy which is the remit and mandate of the PdP.

Thanks

Andrew Alston


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