[rpd] Accountability assessment - PDP review?

[Owen DeLong]

> On Oct 26, 2016, at 02:54 , Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 10:36 AM, Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net <mailto:alan.barrett at afrinic.net>> wrote:
> [replying only on RPD.   Please do not cross-post to more than one mailing list.]
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> > On 26 Oct 2016, at 11:57, Dewole Ajao <dewole at forum.org.ng <mailto:dewole at forum.org.ng>> wrote:
> > I recommend that as a community, we should:
> > seek solutions that are (roughly) acceptable
> > rather than
> > seek to impose our point of view (no matter how correct they may be) on everyone else.
> >
> > ALL OF US (policy authors or not) should channel our input toward solutions that build consensus rather than simplistically adding +1s and -1s on completely divergent points of view. Since we (supposedly) all have the best interests of the AFRINIC community at heart, we should seek to unite rather than divide. Operating in this manner, we would find that #3 and #4 as listed in the preceding emails are actually non-issues.
> 
> The above is very good advice.
> 
> RFC 7282 "On Consensus and Humming in the IETF” <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282>> contains a good description of rough consensus, ways to assess whether or not you have it, and ways to guide a discussion towards consensus.
> 
> SO: Perhaps putting a few words in the PDP that references the IETF consensus building process would formalise things.

I think the following would do the trick:

Participants in the PDP are encouraged to read and follow the advice in RFC7282 as it pertains to building consensus in the process.

Owen

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> Cheers!  
> 
> Alan Barrett
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