[rpd] AFRINIC Policy Development Process Bis Proposal: the way forward

[Barrack Otieno]

Hi colleagues,

This is Policy Developement Process and not a working group. For that
reason i see no need for a Chair and Vice Chair, let us retain the
Co-Chairs since they are shepherds.

Best

On 6/19/17, Timothy Ola Akinfenwa <akin.akinfenwa at uniosun.edu.ng> wrote:
> IMHO, two "good" heads are always better than one!
>
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>
> On Jun 19, 2017 1:07 PM, "McTim" <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> in my experience as a PDWG co-chair, we never had a situation where
> the co-chairs did not agree on if a policy proposal had gained
> consensus or not.
>
> I do not support this proposal, I feel it weakens our PDP and as a
> result our community.
>
> Regards,
>
> McTim
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 5:51 AM, Mark Elkins <mje at posix.co.za> wrote:
>> 1 - So does that mean you are dropping the Chair/vice-Chair and retaining
>> the current two Co-Chairs - like a number of people asked you to do, or
>> what?
>>
>> 2 - What do the words "working group" mean? Do you mean "AfriNIC
> Community"?
>> If so - please use that more familiar terminology.
>>
>> 3 - Can you please tell the community when last where the two co-chairs
>> so
>> stuck in making a decision - that effectively - that was their decision.
> i.e
>> - the never made a decision? To the best of my understanding and
> knowledge,
>> this has never happened but I may be wrong.
>>
>> I was going to add a fourth point but I think what you are really trying
> to
>> do is get some discussion going?
>>
>>
>> On 19/06/2017 11:30, Ornella GANKPA wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Initiators  of the new pdp-bis proposal AFPUB-2017-GEN-002-DRAFT-01
>> [1],  in an effort to improve the policy, are willing to hear from the
>> working group, about settling the matter around one chair and a
>> vice-chair  compared to the current model of 2 cochairs .
>>
>> In the current situation, chairs with the same level of responsabilities
>> can get stuck when making decision towards a policy proposal thus
>> hindering its progress. Working group discussion moderation by two
>> independent individuals can be  inefficient. This lack of "consensus"
>> between co-chairs freezes the working group operations as well as the
>> policy development process
>>
>> Our proposal aims to settle those issues with one chair who makes the
>> final decision and  a vice chair.
>>
>> Community might be concerned about giving one single Chair, too much
>> power. The balance with that is found in stricking deeply the appeal
>> process to make it as larger as possible and open to anybody at any step
>> of a policy proposal's life.
>>
>> During AIS17 in Nairobi, initiators have gathered positive comments from
>> the floor, some supporting linguistic diversity between Chairs. We're
>> willing to pursue the debate and bring some new air to the proposal.
>>
>> Thanks all beforehand for your comments.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> [1]
>> https://afrinic.net/fr/community/policy-development/
> policy-proposals/2083-afrinic-policy-development-process-bis
>>
>>
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> McTim
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