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

[Owen DeLong]

> On Mar 8, 2018, at 00:31, Douglas Onyango <ondouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear members of the Appeal Committee,
> Thank you very much for the time and effort you have put into this activity and for the report itself.
> 
> I would like to remind the community that according to section 4.9 of the Appeal Committee's TOR, the Committee's ruling is final and we should all find ways of living with it, regardless of our personal opinions.
> 
> That being said, I have one observation and query:
> 
> 1. I feel that the wording of the conclusion of the report (XII) should have been explicitly written in terms of section 4.8 of the Committee's TOR. Specifically, I would have expected to see that the wording "upheld" or "reversed" so that no ambiguity exists in interpretation of the conclusion.

There is no ambiguity. The appeal succeeded and the consensus decision after last call was reversed. The consensus decision to send to last call was upheld.

> 
> 2. Maybe not addressed to the Committee, but I would also like to understand what the next steps are for the policy in question following the ruling of the Committee.  
> My expectation is that the policy resumes it's status before the decision in question and the co-chairs will proceed to handle things, albeit in a manner that doesn't contradict the Committee's ruling......??

My understanding of the PDP is that the proposal has the same status it would have if the Co-chairs had (properly) declared no-consensus at the end of last call. I believe that means it is remanded to the authors and the list for further discussion and refinement (or withdrawal). 

I encourage the authors to seriously consider withdrawal. The current soft landing policy is bad enough. Further attempts to make it worse seem to be permanently mired in controversy which is unlikely to get resolved. 

Owen

> 
>  
> Regards,
> 
>> On 3 March 2018 at 17:05, wafa DAHMANI <wafa at ati.tn> wrote:
>> Dear Community,
>> 
>> The appeal committee has published  its report on the Appeal against the declared consensus on the AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT-07 Softlanding-Bis policy
>> and the report is available at the following URL:
>> 
>> https://afrinic.net/en/community/working-groups/policy-appeal/appeals
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> Wafa Dahmani
>> 
>> chair of the Appeal Committee
>> 
>> 
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