[rpd] Policy Proposal: PDP Working Group (WG) Guidelines and Procedures

[Daniel Yakmut]

A quick poser,  are we conscious of our cultural orientation or are we
confident that what works in the other registries will work for AfriNIC on
all issues.
The matter of election in Africa is generally a sore thump, I was hoping
that we will be working towards polishing the current election processes, I
as against complicating with another modalities.

I am seeing the current attempt, rather distracting. My take will be, we
outline clearly the issues with the current election procedures and then
fine tune them, taking into consideration our cultural biases. Coping or
adopting the procedures of other registries in this case is not feasible.

Simply,
Daniel


On Aug 31, 2020 10:37 AM, "Noah" <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:


> Hi Owen,

>

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 9:07 AM Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:

>

>> Marcus,

>>

>> This can vary from working group to working group and depends on the

>> working group charter.

>>

>> In most cases, yes, consensus determined by the remaining co-chair(s) is

>> the primary and preferred method of electing a co-chair, however, failing

>> that, the RIPE-NCC chair makes the decision and his/her decision is final.

>>

>

> Rather the RIPE chair.

>

>

>> So, unless you want to include a fall-back where the Chairman of the

>> Board appoints a WG co-chair when a consensus isn’t reached, I’d say that

>> the proposed mechanism is a truly bad idea.

>>

>

> I am not sure if you took time to read through the proposal entirely, link

> [1] below, but just to note that the fallback plan to the consensus based

> approach you are referring too is already covered in the policy proposal as

> written.

>

> Please refer to proposal's section *3.3.3. Appointment of PDWG co-chairs*

> which covers the entire process.

>

>

>> Since I don’t think that having the chairman of the AfriNIC board

>> appointing RPD co-chairs, I will say that the proposed mechanism is a truly

>> bad idea.

>>

>

> Section 3.3.3 of the proposal talks about the mandate of the remaining

> Chair or Co-Chair in the process, if you will, before even the AfriNIC

> board comes into play.

>

>

>> Owen

>>

>

> Cheers,

> Noah

>

> [1] https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2020-gen-002-d1#proposal

>

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