[rpd] Appeal Committee Terms of Reference (Version 1)

[Owen DeLong]

> On Jul 19, 2017, at 08:14 , Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Board,
>  
> Thank you very much for the terms of reference which I personally think are pretty much exactly what is required.
>  
> I have only one comment which I think needs to be looked at, surrounding point 5.3.f. 
>  
> The decision on lack of consensus on a policy is often announced on the floor of the meeting and may not be announced via email or via a linkable reference for a fair while – it may be good to cater for this scenario in the ToR.

I think it would be better to create a procedural requirement that the PDWG chairs must announce any decisions to the RPD mailing list regardless of any announcement on the floor of a meeting.

Owen

>  
> Beyond that I must commend the board for a job well done and thank them the effort taken to put these ToR’s together, I am sure the rest of the community will join me in extending gratitude for the solid work in this regard.
>  
> Andrew
>  
>  
> From: Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at gmail.com <mailto:sfolayan at gmail.com>>
> Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at 20:51
> To: "rpd >> AfriNIC Resource Policy" <rpd at afrinic.net <mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>>
> Subject: [rpd] Appeal Committee Terms of Reference (Version 1)
>  
> Dear PDWG,
> 
> The AFRINIC Board of Directors intends to establish an Appeal Committee 
> to give effect to the requirements in section 3.5 of the Consolidated 
> Policy Manual (that is, the Conflict resolution portion of the Policy 
> Development Process).
> 
> The Appeal Committee Terms of Reference (version 1) is published at 
> https://afrinic.net/en/community/working-groups/policy-appeal <https://afrinic.net/en/community/working-groups/policy-appeal>
> 
> The Board calls for comments on the Terms of Reference for a 30 day 
> period, ending on 19 August 2017. Comments may be sent to the RPD 
> mailing list <rpd at afrinic.net <mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>>.
> 
> The Board intends to appoint an interim Appeal Committee without delay, 
> to cater for the possibility that an appeal might be filed before the 
> comments on the Terms of reference can be taken into account. We seek 
> the cooperation of the community in this regard.
> 
> Sunday Folayan
> Chair of the AFRINIC Board of Directors
> 
> 
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