[rpd] Clarifying a few points

[JORDI PALET MARTINEZ]

Hi SM,

I totally fail to understand each of your points from your email and the referenced documents in your email.

Could you put that in context or explain them a little bit better?

Regarding the last one (5), it is clear to everybody that AFRINIC *business practices and procedures* are out of the scope of the PDP. EXACTLY the same as AFRINIC (as an organization) decisions when affect the PDP *must* follow the PDP itself. That means that the Board can't use *any other mean* to modify the PDP than the PDP itself.

You can't "invent" a ToR if it is affecting the PDP interpretation and call it ToR or procedure or addenda, or whatever you want. Changing the name doesn't authorize it. Anything that is, in some way, modifying, expanding, interpreting, restricting, enhancing, etc., etc., etc., the PDP, MUST BE a policy proposal, and consequently follow the PDP and become an integral part of the CPM.

Never mind if you ask for a "vote" or "community review" in the list, *it must be a policy proposal and follow the PDP*. The PDP doesn't provide *any other mean than following the PDP itself*.

This is also stated in the bylaws. Even for an emergency policy, which by the bylaws is only authorized for Internet resources management (not the PDP itself), it must be endorsed by the community as a policy, in the next meeting.

Regards,
Jordi
@jordipalet
 
 

El 14/12/20 20:46, "S. Moonesamy" <sm+af at afrinic.net> escribió:

    Dear Policy Development Working Group,

    I would like to clarify a few points related to the recent discussions.

       1. I did not receive any email requesting the Board to ratify a policy
          proposal(s).

       2. AFRINIC is accountable to its membership and bound by the laws of
          the jurisdiction in which it operates.

       3. There is an agreement for global policy development [2].  At the
          regional level, there is a policy development process.  I read
          the version [3] which was discussed on this mailing list as a
          refresher.

       4. I noticed a mistake in a "terms of reference" yesterday.  I would
          not have caught it if I only read the emails sent to this mailing
          list.

       5. Did the Policy Development Working Group take the following sentence
          sentence into consideration:

            [AFRINIC] "General business practices and procedures are
            not within the purview of the Policy Development Process."

         If so, what is the reasoning for its decision?

    Regards,
    S. Moonesamy

    1. https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2013/003105.html
    2. 
    https://aso.icann.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ASO-MoU-Executed-Nov-7-2019.pdf
    3. http://r.elandsys.com/r/97973

    Board Chair, AFRINIC 


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