[rpd] Appeal on AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT-07 Softlanding policy

Mon Mar 5 17:20:32 UTC 2018

Christophe,

Quite frankly, your reaction to the decision does yourself no favours.

Instead of arguing the merits of the policy and the problems with the appeal process as you view them, you have chosen to attack the appeals committee, and are now playing the race card.  Quite frankly, its boring, tiring and insulting.  It shows a weakness of argument and a weakness of character that you need to fall back to card that has no place in an open bottom up forum where the community has spoken.

You refer to this “fear of the whites” – who are these “whites” you keep referring to, who are these “imperialists”.

The definition of imperialism is defined by “a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through colonization, use of military force, or other means”.  So firstly – I see no governments or countries involved here – I see an industry that has opposing view points – and that’s ok – but it does not amount of consensus – which is what is required for policy to pass *by agreement of this community at large who defined that process*

Now let me say this – for myself – your petty insults and deeply implied racist rhetoric actually makes me laugh – because if the best you can come up with to argue your point is stating that somehow policies around the assignment of integers is dominated by skin color, at least I have nothing to worry about if it ever gets to a proper intellectual and reasoned argument – so on that note – thank you for giving me (and I am sure others) a good laugh.

However, I, and again, judging by other responses on this list, have significant problems with you casting aspersions on the appeal committee, who was selected from across the continent, under a process approved by this community.  Your words are no insult to the so called “imperialists” – they are however an insult to the community as a whole.  I might point out that the chair of the appeal committee is on record actually supporting this policy (See the Mauritian PDP policy video) – to the point where I considered requesting recusal due to potential bias – I chose however to have faith in the fact that the committee would act with integrity and evaluate the process irrespective of their beliefs for or against the policy, and I believe that the committee did exactly that, evaluated the process by which consensus was declared and found it to be wanting as per the policies and procedures agreed to by this community.

So please – can you stop insulting the community who came up with the policies and processes, and the community who chose the members of the appeal committee, and the appeal committee itself, and other large segments of this industry, because you are showing yourself to lack of any form of integrity found in reasoned academic debate when you fall back to such pathetic stances that have no substance behind them and claims for which you have not a shred of evidence.

Andrew

From: Kangamutima zabika Christophe [mailto:funga.roho at yandex.com]
Sent: 05 March 2018 19:48
To: Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com>
Cc: rpd at afrinic.net
Subject: Re: [rpd] Appeal on AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT-07 Softlanding policy

Je ne pense pas non plus que la communauté d'internaute africain ait besoin de donneur des leçons comme vous pour réfléchir. J'ai donné mon avis et je l'assume qu'il plaise ou non. Au lieu de parler de racisme que je n'ai pas prononcé, lisez plutôt entre les lignes mes propos. Les écrits que vous apposé dans votre courriel ne vous confère en rien la sagesse dont vous prétendez. je persiste et signe C'EST MON AVIS ET JE L'ASSUME. Sachez aussi qu'en aparté plusieurs membres de la communauté m'ont clairement dit que cette décision provenait de la peur des BLANCS et de leurs menaces.

05.03.2018, 17:35, "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com<mailto:owen at delong.com>>:
> Whether you recognize it or not, your message is an unwarranted ad hominem attack on the appeals committee. Originally I was not going to dignify it with a response, but since you come back to defend it without even recognizing it for what it is, I feel compelled to respond.
>
> The process worked as intended and arrived at a fair and just outcome. There was no consensus for this policy proposal. There was significant, substantial, sustained objection to it. Im sorry you don’t like that, but the use of hate speech and racist rhetoric to express your sour grapes about that fact have no legitimate place in a civilized debate over issues of substance.
>
> It is time to accept the final decision on this matter and move forward as a community. If you still believe such a policy is needed, your time would be better spent finding ways to address the flaws reported in the previous proposal and submitting a new proposal to the community for further debate. Insulting those who have donated their time and effort to serve the community is as unseemly as it is useless to the process.
>
> Owen
>
>>  On Mar 5, 2018, at 08:15, Kangamutima zabika Christophe <funga.roho at yandex.com<mailto:funga.roho at yandex.com>> wrote:
>>
>>  Je n'ai fais qu'user de mon droit de m'exprimer. Dans mes propos, il n y a aucune insulte, injures propos discourtois. Je réaffirme tous mes propos, j'en a endosse la responsabilité. Quant à celui qui a parlé d'impérialisme, pourquoi devrais je définir ce qu'il est déjà dans un dictionnaire, s'il se retrouve parmi ceux-là qu'il aille juste savourer son champagne parceque leurs manigances ont abouti à cette décision inique.
>>
>>  Je n’arrêterai de m'exprimer que le jour où on m'excluera de cette espace de libre expression. Du moment où, mes propos reflètent les convictions de beaucoup des membres qui ont préféré gardé le silence face cette Bérézina.
>>
>>  05.03.2018, 13:58, "Mark Elkins" <mje at posix.co.za<mailto:mje at posix.co.za>>:
>>>>  On 05/03/2018 14:42, Sander Steffann wrote:
>>>>   Hello,
>>>>
>>>>>   Op 5 mrt. 2018, om 12:32 heeft Kangamutima zabika Christophe <funga.roho at yandex.com<mailto:funga.roho at yandex.com>> het volgende geschreven:
>>>>>
>>>>>   Chers membres du comité, votre lecture tronquée et partisane des procédures vous dénoue de toute objectivité dans votre jugement.
>>>>   Can you please refrain from insulting the members of the committee? It's very unbecoming. They are volunteers for this community, and spend a significant of time and effort for the good of all of us. I realise it is frustrating that their findings don't align with yours, but insulting their objectivity is really not appropriate.
>>>>
>>>>   Cheers,
>>>>   Sander
>>>
>>>  Thanks Sander - I was about to suggest the same.
>>>  Was this person's e-mails to this list not meant to be vetted before
>>>  publication - or was that someone else?
>>>  If not, I think they should be.
>>>
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