[rpd] New Draft Policy Proposal - Amendment of the PDP Working Group (WG) Guidelines and Procedures AFPUB-2026-GEN-001-DRAFT01.

[Sami Salih]

Dear Colleagues,

As a former PDWG Co-chair, I generally support the intent behind strengthening the autonomy and operational continuity of the PDWG. The policy development process ultimately belongs to the African Internet community and should remain resilient regardless of operational or governance challenges affecting AFRINIC as an organisation.

At the same time, I believe it is important to recognize that this proposal introduces substantial structural, operational, procedural, and governance changes to the PDP framework. In many respects, this is a major and transformative proposal rather than a routine procedural update.

>From my experience with the PDP, the community process tends to work best when addressing clearly scoped issues through focused and easy-to-understand proposals. In contrast, this proposal attempts to address many different governance, electoral, operational, disciplinary, and procedural matters simultaneously, which makes it difficult for the community to fully analyse, discuss, and build meaningful consensus around all aspects at once.

IMHO, many of the ideas and intended improvements presented in this proposal are constructive and deserve serious consideration. I also fully acknowledge and respect the extensive experience, effort, and strategic thinking of the authors in developing such a comprehensive framework proposal.

However, considering the breadth of the changes and the number of distinct governance and operational matters being introduced simultaneously, my respectful recommendation would be to consider withdrawing the current proposal and restructuring this work into multiple smaller and more focused proposals. I believe this would make it significantly easier for the community to understand, analyse, discuss, and build meaningful consensus around each individual topic independently, while improving overall community engagement and participation in the process.

With Regards,
Sami Sali.


Sami Salih
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From: Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, May 25, 2026 8:43:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [rpd] New Draft Policy Proposal - Amendment of the PDP Working Group (WG) Guidelines and Procedures AFPUB-2026-GEN-001-DRAFT01.

Hello,

Thanks for sharing this proposal. My initial comments after a brief review are the following:

- A typical community member could also be an AFRINIC member. There is no reason to mandate that nomination supporters for the NRO NC must be both community members and AFRINIC members. Requiring one or 2 supporters from the service region should be sufficient.

- The rpd is open to anyone that wishes to participate irrespective of origin, region or residence. It sure makes sense to restrict election participation to those with a historical record of involvement, either online or in-person  to avoid historical experience of DDOS on election day. However, there is no reason to restrict the selectorate/electorate to those in the region alone.

- I do not see the necessity of a Number Committee; it seems to create yet another layer. The Appeal committee which also serves as the recall committee can perform any intended role of the RNC. Its composition could be the 3 NRO NC members from the region, a past co-chair, and a past appeal committee chair in a non-voting capacity. In situations where both Co-Chairs are no more, the Chair of the Appeal committee can temporarily take over until rpd appoints a new co-chair

- As a former co-chair of PDWG, i find the proposed responsibilities of the Co-chairs  as described in section 3.3.2  to be overly granular and quite policing-like for lack of a better word.

- I believe the proposed 3.3.7 should refer to AFRINIC CoC and that should be sufficient. The proposed penalties for violations look good, though they are a bit too wordy to me and the process leading to that is quite descriptive. We really need to give the co-chairs the privilege of managing events as they deem applicable

- The idea that a co-chair eligibility should be tied to attending in-person meetings during a specific period isn't realistic given our region's unique challenges. I understand it may be an effort to put a face to the name but restricting eligibility to the last 2 years (which is basically last 4 PPM) isn't realistic.

- 3.3.3.3.3 suggests co-chairs will be appointed by consensus, that is an interesting point that i would definitely not support. This can lead to unnecessary subjectivity.

- I like the expectation of participation from Co-Chair hence 3.3.4 appeals to me as written.

- Use of shall in 3.3.11 suggests that ratification is the only option for the Board. There should be an option for the Board to provide reasons for not ratifying and that should not be triggered by a petition.

I may have more comments in future, but that is all from me for now.

Regards

On Mon, 25 May 2026 at 10:20, dacostadarwin at gmail.com<mailto:dacostadarwin at gmail.com> <dacostadarwin at gmail.com<mailto:dacostadarwin at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear PDWG,

We have received a new draft policy proposal - Amendment of the PDP Working Group (WG) Guidelines and Procedures AFPUB-2026-GEN-001-DRAFT01 from authors Grégoire EHOUMI, Noah Maina and Adeola A. P. AINA.

The proposal contents are published at: https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals/afpub-2026-gen-001-draft01

We encourage you to take some time to go through the proposal contents and  provide feedback as follows :

a) Do you support or oppose the proposal?

b) If you oppose the proposal, state your reasons.

c) Is there anything in the proposal that is not clear?

d) What changes could be made to this proposal to make it more effective?

Regards,
Vincent Ngundi & Darwin Da Costa
AFRINIC PDWG Co-Chairs
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