[rpd] Opposing the last call made on the review policy

[Daniel Yakmut]

On Dec 3, 2018, at 11:54 PM, Gregoire Ehoumi via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> There is no provision in the curent PDP which mandates, updates/revisions to a proposal  before it got  presented at a PPM. The agenda was published and as expected, no one objected...here we see another incentive for PDP-BIS  which defines a clear lifecycle  of proposal?
> 
Does this mean there will be no time that a proposal will become stale? I thought the purpose of updates/revisions is to get the document to be better and accommodating. Ignoring community members input to proposals as being insinuated here is against the principle of the PDP.

My experience in the University has shown that a policy that is drafted and possibly implemented (no matter how good) usually has issues at implementation and cannot achieve its objectives. For the reason that the University community was not carried along in fine tuning the policy. Such documents are usually referred to as rules and regulations not policy.

Therefore given credence to a stale document is not the best. The Review Policy is suffering from rejection for the path the authors have taken in ignoring and refusing to accommodate the views of other members of the community. 

> I find it curious that a policy  proposal which aims to improve  resource usage, provide better accountability within an RIR ecosystem  raises so much controversy. 
If the policy is truly what  it claims to be, then why is their resistance to criticisms of the policy.

> Members sign RSA which bind them to such review,  but when it comes to defining a community consensus approach to the review, it becomes stormy
I am personally comfortable with the RSA, and oppose to any other policy that clearly repeats the RSA. 
>  
> 
> Are we afraid of enforcement of new policy and not of the RSA?
Why should one fear a document (RSA)  s/he signs at the commencement of  a relationship. The "new policy" - Review Policy is just no useful.

> 
> --Gregoire
> 
> ------ Original message------
> From: Ernest Byaruhanga
> Date: Mon, Dec 3, 2018 6:02 AM
> To: Nishal Goburdhan;
> Cc: rpd;
> Subject:Re: [rpd] Opposing the last call made on the review policy
> 
> Nishal,
> 
> > have there been any updates to this policy since the previous meeting.
> 
> No.
> 
> Version 6 was received on 10 April 2018, and no newer version thereafter.
> 
> More info:
> https://www.afrinic.net/policy/2016-gen-001-d6#details
> 
> Ernest.
> 
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