[rpd] Report of the Soft Landing isuue

Fri Mar 24 20:08:46 UTC 2017

Hi everyone.

Though we still have 3 days to go (out of the 7 suggested by the Co-chairs
to hear from the community on their suggestion),

As a newbie in the PDP process, I have the impression that we (community)
will not be able to move ahead with this work as per the wonderful
suggestion by co-chairs. If this wonderful idea was supported by the
community, there should have been someone to take the lead (already).

In my opinion, since no one from the community has stepped in to work on a
merged policy, I would suggest co-chairs to just leave this and declare it
a dead proposal. There is no interest in working on a merged proposal given
that original authors were not able to come together and produce something
as we all agreed in Mauritius. This is frustrating and I hope we take
lessons from this experience for the future.

Thanks,
Arsene

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2017-03-22 22:09 GMT+02:00 ALAIN AINA <aalain at trstech.net>:

>
>
> Dear Community
>
> We thank the co-chairs for the efforts put in managing the soft landing
> update’s process incepted by the 2 policy proposals. We also thank the
> community for the intensive discussions and contributions.
>
> We have contributed to the post-Mauritius initiative from the co-chairs on
> this update to the softlanding and remain available for any further actions
> required from us.
>
> We still believe that amending certain aspects of the current  soft
> landing policy adopted in 2011, is  a good thing to do, despite the time
> wasted and  the fact that  AFRINIC  v4 pool showing 1.077 /8 available,
> which means the soft landing may be triggered anytime soon.
>
> We hope that the community has learnt a lot from this process and consider
> the main lesson here to be, the fundamental principle of
> policies/standards' development, which is that when a proposal is on the
> table to address an issue and has been accepted for discussion, it becomes
> community's document, aiming to be improved by the community up to
> adoption, rejection or withdrawal.
>
> Thanks
>
> Softlanding-bis Co-authors
>
>
>
> > On Mar 20, 2017, at 10:24 PM, SamiSalih <sami at ntc.gov.sd> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Dear AfriNIC Community,
> > Greetings from the PDWG Co-chairs,
> >
> > Many of you may have followed the proceedings of the two conflicting
> proposals addressing IPv4 exhaustion.
> >
> > At the last meeting in Mauritius, authors of both IPv4 run-out
> management proposals agreed to consider working together to develop an
> improved proposal.
> > We regret to inform you that despite several efforts, both groups of
> authors were unable to collaborate towards a joint solution.
> >
> > As that process is deadlocked, the co-chairs have put together some of
> the major points in discussions raised over multiple meetings and mailing
> list discussions. Because the community has made many valid observations on
> improvements that could be made to the status quo, we hereby suggest that
> these be assessed by the community with a view to presenting a proposal
> that better manages the exhaustion of IPv4 resources.
> >
> > Some examples of recommended improvements include consideration for new
> entrants, IPv6 transition provisions, and repurposing of reserves for the
> "unforeseen".
> >
> > To avoid entering a loop similar to what we recently encountered, there
> is a need to concentrate our efforts on a joint solution. Can we discuss
> and let the co-chairs assist with the draft of a proposal that contains
> only areas that have rough consensus?
> >
> > If there are areas on which consensus cannot be reasonably reached,
> those can be left out of the policy update proposal. Although the resulting
> proposal may be treated under the emergency provisions of the PDP due to
> time sensitivity of the subject matter, the ideal situation would be for
> the draft update to be received before the next PPM.
> >
> > Although the PDP does not expressly require the above, we trust that all
> community members will be reasonable and work together constructively
> rather than seek to frustrate any efforts that do not align with their
> viewpoints.
> >
> > The extracts from discussions till date are at https://goo.gl/AWCCWd
> and we would like to receive feedback and suggestions from the community
> > over the next 7 days.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > AfiNIC PDP Co-chairs
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dr. Sami Salih  | Assistant Professor
> > Sudan University of Science and Technology
> > Eastern Dum, P.O Box 11111-407
> > email: sami.salih at sustech.edu
> > Mob: +249122045707
> >
> >
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