[rpd] The need to review the existing soft landing policy (was Re: Two more petitioners)

[Timothy Ola Akinfenwa]

++++1 Kris.

Thanks for this submission and sorry for the loss of your grand daughter.
Season greetings to all!

</> $Tim

On Dec 30, 2017 10:58 AM, "Kris Seeburn" <seeburn.k at gmail.com> wrote:

> People,
>
> Let’s have a decorum on the list please. The old players know the ball
> game we do not need those new to the list to be spoiled. Shooting at each
> other here makes no sense. If there is grounds for Appeals, the board has
> setup up an Appeal committee already. So in the interest of not spamming
> the list with same opinions etc., let the process follow its path. I humbly
> implore to all that we respect and give respect to all on the list.
>
> We are mere human beings and we do not need to be firing all the time.
> Sometimes listening to others views can make sense sometimes not. This is
> why we have a wider community. Petitions or not the board took its time but
> has an appeals committee set. What will follow is in the hands of the
> instance we voted for the Board. As far as PDP co-chairs they are in their
> learning curve everyone is bound to mistakes. So i urge everyone in this
> time of the year when we are family bound to focus and let the instances
> put in place to do their jobs.
>
> So again my humblest request it is a time for peace and doing the right
> things we may not always like things like “code of ethics” on the list but
> we all eventually made it a moto to refer to it whenever the slope got
> steep.
>
> So let’s give everyone their chances and it is known to be like this with
> a wide community and background and also of culture. So i implore your good
> sense in this festive season where peace is the word. Let the proceeds
> follow and the outcome may it be will be.
>
> That is my request to all. You may associate me with anyone but what i
> want is a community that dwells together, work together for the RIR that
> was created for the continent.
>
> I take this hearty time for me since i just lost my grandmother whom has
> always tried to guide me. I owe much to her teachings. Let’s work as a
> continent not as franco, english or whatsoever. We do not need colonisation
> again. Each country is striving to get to where we need to be. Let’s bear
> the time of peace in mind and look at common good.
>
> As an ending note please do not follow on my email this is what i wanted
> to share with all colleagues and friends here. Move AFRINIC to its ideology
> and not the background politics that destroys it.
>
> So ‘Seasons greetings to all"
>
> On Dec 30, 2017, at 13:32, Jacob Odame <jacobodame00 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> You are correct Kangamutima.
>
> The motive and intentions of that group is clear.
>
> Jacob
>
> 2017-12-29 15:36 GMT+03:00 Kangamutima zabika Christophe <
> funga.roho at yandex.com>:
>
>>
>> For me, the problem is that, given the current procedure,
>> a detractor can contact a small group of friends to raise objections in
>> all directions just to block a proposal indefinitely. And in the case of
>> the proposal of soft landing. The protesters themselves claim to judge
>> the objectivity of their arguments.
>> They think that the more they comment, the more they insist, the more
>> they are right.
>> They do not take the step back to analyze the arguments of the working
>> group first.
>> In addition, when you want to promote a group of people or entities you
>> must first weigh their interests against the priorities of this continent.
>> In the spirit of this proposal, the authors want to perpetuate the growth
>> of the Internet in Africa, but with safeguards,
>> we are not a digital jungle where poachers armed with resource demands
>> would voraciously squander the digital resources of our continent.
>> And besides in all these discussions I did not read any interlocutors who
>> spoke about the ISPs who still hold enormous amounts of the unabsorbed
>> digital resources (even coming from other RIRs in some cases) as it is the
>> case. Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, and other
>> countries in the region.
>> I recognize that in view of his career Owen has a transcendent view of
>> the issue, but he does not contextualize the problem correctly in relation
>> to local realities.
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