[rpd] Policy wording ambiguity (Was Re: Board Composition)

[Seun Ojedeji]

Dear Dewole,

Thanks for raising a policy concern. The softlanding policy from which you
raise a concern currently have 2 proposals that attempts to address some of
the issues with the current policy. I hope either of the 2 proposals (or
both) addresses your concern.

It will be good to hear more views/suggestions from the community on the
proposals under discussion even before the face 2 face. Nevertheless, the
two proposals will indeed be part of our agenda items for Gaborone which
will be communicated within the month.

On that note, we encourage the community to propose new policies as
applicable.

Regards
Sami/Seun - PDWG Co-Chair
Sent from my LG G4
Kindly excuse brevity and typos
On 6 May 2016 11:22, "Dewole Ajao [Bandwidth Consortium]" <
dewole at forum.org.ng> wrote:

I noticed the concluding part of the quote from the soft-landing policy at
http://www.afrinic.net/library/policies/697-ipv4-soft-landing-policy reads
"...in a manner that is in the best interest of the community."

When AfriNIC can no longer meet any more requests for address space from
the last /8 pool because the pool is either empty or has no more contiguous
blocks, the board will based on the demand and other factors at the time
exercise the prerogative to replenish the exhaustion pool from the reserve
pool* in a manner that is in the best interest of the community.*

Given the amount of time we have spent on ambiguous wording in recent
times, we should update policies to be less contentious (whenever we
discover them). It is either we are saying the board shall use its
prerogative to replenish (and end the statement there) OR we say the
community shall use a process XYZ to determine the manner in which the
exhaustion pool shall be replenished in the best interest of the community.
Some more digging reveals that policy update under discussion at
http://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/1625-soft-landing-bis-draft-02-
is more explicit about community consultation:
When AFRINIC, can no longer meet any more requests for address space (from
the Final /8 or from any other available address space), AFRINIC in
consultation with the community via the Policy Discussion Mailing list and
considering the demand and other factors at the time replenish the
exhaustion pool with whatever address space (or part thereof) that may be
available to AFRINIC at the time, in a manner that is in the best interest
of the community.

Would be nice if we can tidy this up in Gaborone.

Dewole.


On 5/5/2016 8:55 PM, sm+afrinic at elandsys.com wrote:

Hi Viv,
At 12:17 05-05-2016, Viv Padayatchy wrote:

If we look at board governance, there are three main areas where a board
member can impact afrinic's business:

1. Policy Development
        The board has little influence here. It cannot alter a policy but
it can refuse to ratify it and send the policy back to the RPD. One might
say that the board could use this power as a delaying tactic. However, it
will expose itself to tremendous criticism if it refuses to ratify a
policy, which has gone through the proper policy development process,
without good reasons. To me, this is a natural check against possible
attempt by the board to derail the policy development process.

2. Resource Allocation
        Here again, resource allocation is performed by the executive, and
not the board, according to predefined sets of policies. It is true that
the board could have the last word on matters of resource allocation where
the request is unusual and the policies are not clear cut enough for the
executive to make a decision. This is possibly an area that needs to be
looked at.


This community agreed to the following several years ago:

  "When AfriNIC, can no longer meet any more requests for address space
  (from the Final /8 or from any other available address space), the
   Board may at its discretion and considering the demand and other
   factors at the time replenish the exhaustion pool with whatever
   address space (or part thereof) that may be available to AfriNIC at
   the time, in a manner that is in the best interest of the community."

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

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