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[rpd] Policy Development Process and Elections
Benjamin Investor
investor0189 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 16 08:45:48 UTC 2020
Dear Jordie,
Thanks for your suggestion.
My old employer is a resource member and we share different views on some
issues. At that time I could only have been able to share my views
different from his, if I have another job to feed my family. Africa is not
like Europe. It takes 5 seconds to sack an employee in the private sector
and NOTING would happen execpt that your wife would leave you for another
man and your children would call you a useless father and a sparm donor.
Let me ask again is there anyone against my suggestion?
On Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 9:01 AM JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net>
wrote:
> Hi Kangamutinma,
>
>
>
> It was just an example. Clearly is not the same, in fact there are small
> differences even between countries with similar structures.
>
>
>
> In the case of the PDP and the bylaws, the last resort will be ICANN and
> it is clear in the ICP-2. They bylaws are contradicting the ICP-2 and this
> is very very very bad. We (the board, the membership, even the community in
> this case), should correct that.
>
>
>
> I know the community has nothing to do with the bylaws, but the actual
> bylaws are in violation with ICP-2 regarding to who is able to participate
> in the PDP and attributions to the board which are in fact from the
> community, that his is a community matter.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jordi
>
> @jordipalet
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> El 16/8/20 4:00, "Kangamutima zabika Christophe" <funga.roho at yandex.com>
> escribió:
>
>
>
> Je soutiens les propos de Dewole.
>
>
>
> Le problème est que derrière des candidatures à une élection, il y a aussi
> des stratégies électorales. Il est clair que cette adhésion massive et
> instantanée relève d'intention à peine voilée de bourrer les urnes.
>
>
>
> Quant à la préoccupation de Jordi, je ne pense pas que Transposer la
> structure d'un pays à la communauté afrinic serait tout à fait exact. Je
> suis d'accord du fait que beaucoup des dispositions des statuts d'afrinic
> sont lacunaires et des fois contradictoires avec le PDP mais dans la
> hiérarchie des normes la communauté devrait déterminer selon les
> thématiques abordées quelle institution pourrait primer sur l'autre, quel
> texte prévaudrait sur l'autre.
>
>
>
> En plus, chaque fois qu'il y aura conflit d'interprétation des textes
> (statuts, PDP), quel est l'organe ou l'entité habilité à trancher sur ce
> différend (au regard des cours constitutionnel dans le cas d'un Etat).
>
>
>
> KANGAMUTIMA ZABIKA
>
>
>
> 15.08.2020, 14:04, "Dewole Ajao via RPD" <rpd at afrinic.net>:
>
> Looks like you misinterpreted paragraph "g", Jordi.
>
> (g) .... AFRINIC undertakes to preserve this right so that *no one who
> has recently subscribed* to the rpd mail list *will be debarred and/or
> ‘disenfranchised’ *from participating in the Policy Development Process.
>
> I interpreted it to mean: EVERYONE who has recently subscribed to the rpd
> will be allowed to participate in the elections.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dewole.
>
> On 8/15/2020 1:24 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD wrote:
>
> Hi Noah,
>
>
>
> The ICP-2 is very clear on this and we all, should know it very well. It
> is a very well understood concept in all the RIRs. In fact, the message
> from Eddy recognized that as well.
>
>
>
> The PDP is the **global community**, while the board is only a
> representation of a small subset of the community: the members of only
> AFRINIC region.
>
>
>
> I guess the bylaws were created before the constitution of AFRINIC, or in
> the very early stage. I don’t know if there is a document that shows all
> the history of this document and all the modifications (if any) that have
> been done since them.
>
>
>
> The board is **only** able to setup rules for the membership.
>
>
>
> The PDP has a “higher” scope: as it sets rules for all.
>
>
>
> When you say “The volunteers at the board are given the mandate by the
> community. The community includes number resources members who form part of
> the community.”, is wrong in the first sentence “the volunteers at the
> board are given the mandate by the membership” and the membership is only
> responsible for membership issues. That’s why is totally wrong to have in
> the bylaws (which are for membership), text impossing rules to the
> community (which should be at the PDP).
>
>
>
> Following with your next paragraph, the bylaws are wrong. There is NO WAY,
> the bylaws can enforce what the community (PDP) want to do. The bylaws can
> only enforce the membership.
>
>
>
> And yes, the board can be wrong, and it is perfectly fine, and I’m
> convinced they always act in good faith and try to do what they believe is
> best for membership, but this is not neccesarily correct or the best for
> the community. Exactly the same like a partliament in a country, which
> represents the citizens, can be wrong, and that’s why, courts, could decide
> that something that the parliament has decided, need to be amended.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jordi
>
> @jordipalet
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> El 15/8/20 14:04, "Noah" <noah at neo.co.tz> escribió:
>
>
>
> Hi Jordi
>
>
>
> The volunteers at the board are given the mandate by the community. The
> community includes number resources members who form part of the community.
>
>
>
> And when you say the volunteers at the board are wrong, and the bylaws
> are wrong, do you mean the community is wrong?
>
>
>
> Noah
>
>
>
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2020, 08:06 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD, <rpd at afrinic.net>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Eddy, all,
>
>
>
> While I fully agree that it is perfectly appropriate for the Board to
> decide on the way co-chairs elections are done and even more in this
> exceptional situation, I think there are some broken statements in this
> email.
>
>
>
> AFRINIC bylaws, in my opinion, are in trouble and against ICANN ICP-2,
> because are contradicting the consensus and bottom-up approach of the PDP
> and consequently the co-chairs elections. I will urge to update them.
>
>
>
> As a matter of fact, the articles in section 11 related to the PDP don’t
> exist in any other RIR (I’ve read all them again a few minutes ago, just in
> case I was missing anything), neiher anything similar. Unfortunatelly I
> only realized this a couple of days ago, when I was preparing a policy
> proposal that is not yet published.
>
>
>
> Note, and this is not your fault, but from previous boards, that the board
> has decided on changes and restrictions to the PDP and contravenued the
> bylaws, because the board never brought those “policies” or “procedures” to
> the PDP to be endorsed (by consensus) by the community. Wait for my last
> proposal to be published for more details.
>
>
>
> Let me clarify, below in-line each of the points.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jordi
>
> @jordipalet
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> El 14/8/20 14:49, "AFRINIC Communication" <comms at afrinic.net> escribió:
>
>
>
> [Version en français ci-dessous]
>
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Further to its communique issued on 5 August 2020, AFRINIC wishes to
> inform its community that following its announcement regarding the holding
> of the Policy Development Working Group (“PDWG”) Co-Chair and NRO ASO-AC
> elections for the year 2020, it has considered all responses obtained in
> respect thereof.
>
> Consequently, AFRINIC considers it appropriate to clarify, for the
> benefits of its community, the following:
>
> (a) That the Public Policy Meeting (“PPM”) is convened by the AFRINIC
> Board of Directors pursuant to the provisions of articles 11.2 and 11.3 of
> the Bylaws;
>
> [Jordi] This is wrong, and should be corrected. A RIR is only assisting
> the community in terms of PDP. It is up to the community to decide how this
> is done and what the community wants to be done by the RIR. The community
> can agree that the elections are handled by the AFRINIC board and that the
> board can delegate into a committee. That’s fine and I think is the correct
> way, but can’t be imposed to the community. Those articles should NOT be
> there. They don’t exist in any other RIR. It is a big mistake. I also fully
> support, that the PDP **must have** some special provisions to give the
> board some powers on:
>
> 1. Call for the PDP meetings.
>
> 2. Assist/manage the co-chair elections by means of the PDP decided
> procedure. If there is not a procedure, this is the community fault and
> thus the board should be able to decide how to do it.
>
> 3. Allow an appeal process (by the board or delegated into a
> committee), but following the PDP, not restricting it.
>
> 4. Ratify policies. Only policies that will clearly damage the RIR
> membership can’t be ratified and should be returned to the PDP for further
> discussion.
>
> 5. In emergency situations, adopt a policy **regarding the
> management of resources** (not the PDP), **which must be brought to the
> PDP back for the community consensus/endorsement** otherwise must be
> stopped.
>
>
>
> [Jordi] In addition to that, the bylaws are discriminatory and CLEARLY
> against the ICP-2 and this is a **BIG** irregularity and breach of the
> ICANN empowerment assigned to AFRINIC. THIS MUST BE RESOLVED IMMEDIATELY.
> The section 3 of ICP-2 is clear in many paragraphs in regards to the
> bottom-up self-governance for setting local policies “accessible to all
> interested parties”. The bylaws, clearly contradict the PDP, and that
> should **not** happen.
>
>
> (b) That in regard to the election of the PDWG Co-Chair and
> notwithstanding the fact same is held during the PPM, section 3.1 of the
> Consolidated Policy Manual (“CPM”) clearly and in no uncertain terms
> provides as follows: - “Internet number resource policies are distinctly
> separate from AFRINIC general business practices and procedures. General
> business practices and procedures are not within the purview of the Policy
> Development Process.
>
> [Jordi] And that clearly means that the PDP, neither the bylaws have
> authorized the board to take over the elections. The elections of the
> co-chairs, as the co-chairs itself, are part of the PDP. Again, I agree
> that meanwhile we don’t have in the PDP an explicit procedure, it is just
> fine to allow the board to assist on that and manage the elections. BUT
> this should be corrected ASAP by the community.
>
>
> (c) That in light of para (b) above, the election process applicable to
> the PDWG Co-Chair election does not form an integral part of the CPM and is
> thus a matter for the Board of Directors to determine;
>
> [Jordi] I disagree. The chair position is a mandate of the PDP. Just look
> into other RIRs. Is the community the one that manages that. The board of
> each RIR is just delegated by the PDP to do that, as an oversight. And
> still note that I’m supporting, at the time being, the board decision on
> the way to do the next elections, but that’s different than confirming that
> this is a business of the board **unless** that task is delegated by the
> community to the board.
>
>
>
>
> (d) That, consistent with the above and having considered the
> exceptional context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Board of Directors
> recently resolved, inter-alia, that the forthcoming PPM will be held
> virtually and has even caused an Election Process 2020 to be
> published applicable to all elections to be held during the year 2020;
>
> (e) That in so far as the role of the PDWG is concerned, the core
> responsibility of the latter is to discuss policy proposals via the
> Internet (mailing list) or in person (during face-to-face PPM). Hence,
> since time restrictions are prevalent for the policy discussions during the
> PPM, rough consensus of policy proposals is determined during the PPM by
> considering both online and on-site contributions. Final consensus is
> decided upon after consideration of the discussions in the Last Call period;
>
> [Jordi] Fully agree here on the matter of time. It is ridiculous the time
> that was spent in the PPMs in previous meetings for elections. They should
> be from now on, regardless of the pandemic, electronic and open to
> non-on-site participants. HOWEVER, according to the actual PDP the
> consensus is determined only, according to the actual PDP “during the PPM”,
> and that’s why I’ve proposed a PDP change so it is explicitly clear that
> also the discussion on the list must be considered for the consensus.
>
>
> (f) That the right attributed to its community to contribute to policy
> discussions by either subscribing to the rpd mailing list or
> participating in the discussions in the upcoming PPM by registering for and
> attending the online meeting is sacrosanct and AFRINIC hereby renews its
> commitment that it will continue to give full effect to the principles of
> Policy Development as stipulated in section 3.2 of the CPM;
>
> (g) That, for the purposes of para (e) above, subscription to the
> AFRINIC rpd mailing list is considered as a step towards participation in
> the PDWG and AFRINIC undertakes to preserve this right so that no one who
> has recently subscribed to the rpd mail list will be debarred and/or
> ‘disenfranchised’ from participating in the Policy Development Process.
>
> (h) For purposes of clarity, below are subscription numbers from January
> 2019 to 13 August 2020.
>
>
>
> *2019*
>
> *Number*
>
> January
>
> 3
>
> February
>
> 8
>
> March
>
> 3
>
> April
>
> 9
>
> May
>
> 30
>
> June
>
> 53
>
> July
>
> 8
>
> August
>
> 11
>
> September
>
> 3
>
> October
>
> 4
>
> November
>
> 11
>
> December
>
> 18
>
> *2020*
>
> January
>
> 1
>
> February
>
> 13
>
> March
>
> 7
>
> April
>
> 2
>
> May
>
> 5
>
> June
>
> 9
>
> July
>
> 177
>
> August 13th 12:50 UTC
>
> 27
>
> *Current number of list subscribers*
>
> *986*
>
>
>
> [Jordi] I think it is obviously suspicious that suddenly there is such big
> increase in the registration on the RPD once it is announced that there may
> be a need to do online elections, and considering that at that time there
> was not any open discussion on policy proposals or new versions of existing
> ones. So, once more, I support the board decision on the procedure for the
> electronic elections and limiting the participation for those that are
> registered several months up-front them.
>
>
>
> On this note, AFRINIC encourages the PDWG to increase its engagement in
> the Policy Development Process through their active, substantial
> and constructive participation in developing resource policies that will
> help AFRINIC in its mission of managing Internet Number Resources for the
> African region.
>
> Furthermore, AFRINIC would like to take this opportunity to renew its
> invitation to the AIS’20 meeting and recommend that the community follows
> all procedures put in place for their online registration in
> respect thereof.
>
>
>
> Eddy Kayihura
>
> CEO
>
>
>
> ……………………
>
>
>
>
>
> Chers collègues,
>
>
>
> Suite à son communiqué publié le 5 août 2020, l'AFRINIC souhaite informer
> sa communauté que suite à son annonce concernant la tenue des élections du
> co-président du groupe de travail sur l'élaboration des politiques ("PDWG")
> et de l'ASO-AC du NRO pour l'année 2020, elle a examiné toutes les réponses
> obtenues à cet égard.
>
>
>
> En conséquence, AFRINIC considère qu'il convient de clarifier, pour le
> bénéfice de sa communauté, ce qui suit :
>
>
>
> (a) Que la réunion de politique publique ("PPM") est convoquée par le
> Conseil d'administration de l'AFRINIC conformément aux dispositions des
> articles 11.2 et 11.3 des statuts ;
>
>
>
> (b) En ce qui concerne l'élection du co-président du PDWG, et bien qu'elle
> ait lieu pendant la Réunion de politique publique, la section 3.1 du
> Consolidated Policy Manual ("CPM") prévoit clairement et sans ambiguïté ce
> qui suit : - "Les politiques en matière de ressources de numéros Internet
> se distinguent clairement des pratiques opérationnelles et des procédures
> générales d'AFRINIC, qui ne sont pas du resort du processus d'élaboration
> des politiques''.
>
>
>
> c) Qu'à la lumière du paragraphe b) ci-dessus, le processus d'élection
> applicable à l'élection du coprésident du PDWG ne fait pas partie
> intégrante du CPM et donc est du ressort du conseil d'administration ;
>
>
>
> (d) Que, conformément à ce qui précède et après avoir pris en compte le
> contexte exceptionnel de la pandémie COVID-19, le Conseil d'administration
> a récemment décidé, entre autres, que la prochaine réunion de politiques
> publiques se tiendra virtuellement et a même fait publier un processus pour
> les élections pour l'année 2020 applicable à toutes les élections devant se
> tenir en 2020 ;
>
>
>
> e) Que, en ce qui concerne le rôle du PDWG, la responsabilité principale
> de ce dernier est de discuter des propositions politiques via Internet
> (liste de diffusion) ou en personne (lors de la réunion en face-à-face).
> Par conséquent, étant donné que le temps imparti aux discussions politiques
> pendant la réunion est limité, un consensus approximatif sur les
> propositions politiques sera déterminé pendant la réunion en tenant compte
> des contributions en ligne et sur place. Le consensus final sera décidé
> après examen des discussions durant la période du dernier appel ;
>
>
>
> (f) que le droit attribué à sa communauté de contribuer aux discussions
> politiques, soit en s'inscrivant à la liste de diffusion rpd, soit en
> participant aux discussions de la prochaine Réunion de politiques publiques
> en s'inscrivant et en assistant à la réunion en ligne est sacro-saint et
> que l'AFRINIC renouvelle par la présente son engagement à continuer à
> donner plein effet aux principes d'élaboration des politiques comme stipulé
> dans la section 3.2 de la CPM ;
>
>
>
> (g) Que, aux fins du paragraphe (e) ci-dessus, l'inscription à la liste de
> diffusion rpd d'AFRINIC est considérée comme une étape vers la
> participation au PDWG et AFRINIC s'engage à préserver ce droit afin
> qu'aucune personne qui s'est récemment inscrite à la liste de diffusion rpd
> ne soit exclue et/ou "privée" de sa participation au processus
> d'élaboration des politiques.
>
>
>
> (h) Par souci de clarté, voici le nombre d'abonnement de janvier 2019 au
> 13 août 2020.
>
>
>
>
>
> *2019*
>
> *Nombres*
>
> Janvier
>
> 3
>
> Février
>
> 8
>
> Mars
>
> 3
>
> Avril
>
> 9
>
> Mai
>
> 30
>
> Juin
>
> 53
>
> Juillet
>
> 8
>
> Août
>
> 11
>
> Septembre
>
> 3
>
> Octobre
>
> 4
>
> Novembre
>
> 11
>
> December
>
> 18
>
> *2020*
>
> Janvier
>
> 1
>
> Février
>
> 13
>
> Mars
>
> 7
>
> Avril
>
> 2
>
> Mai
>
> 5
>
> Juin
>
> 9
>
> Juillet
>
> 177
>
> Août 13 12:50 UTC
>
> 27
>
> *Nombre d'abonnements actuels*
>
> *986*
>
>
>
>
>
> Sur cette note, AFRINIC encourage le PDWG à accroître son engagement dans
> le processus d'élaboration des politiques à travers leur participation
> active, substantielle et constructive dans l'élaboration des politiques de
> ressources qui contribueront à aider AFRINIC dans sa mission de gestion des
> ressources numériques Internet pour la région africaine.
>
>
>
> En outre, AFRINIC voudrait saisir cette occasion pour renouveler son
> invitation à la réunion de l'AIS'20 et recommander que la communauté suive
> toutes les procédures mises en place pour leur inscription en ligne à cet
> égard.
>
>
>
> Eddy Kayihura
>
> CEO
>
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