[rpd] Staff impact analysis

[jordi.palet at consulintel.es]

Hi Alain,

I see it in a different way. It has been a good practice in AFRINIC (and also same experience in other RIRs) to provide the impact analysis ASAP.

The impact analysis is key to understand possible implementation issues that the community discussion may or may not be able to discover.

If we get the impact analysis before the 1 week deadline for a new version, then “fixes” for those issues could be incorporated in a new version.

Otherwise, those fixes, which may even prevent the board to ratify a proposal even if it reaches consensus in the community, will need to wait for a complete new cycle (6 months or even 1 year).

So both, community discussion and impact analysis should be concurrent, because they may present different “views" of a proposal.

I fully understand that the number of proposals makes difficult for the staff to get all them in a perfect “final state" right now, but even just sharing a draft version in a PDF (no need to publish the draft in the web site), clearly stating that it is a draft and subjected to corrections, will be very helpful for both the discussion and the authors to be able to fix issues before the deadline.

Regards,
Jordi

@jordipalet

> El 15 jun 2026, a las 12:16, ALAIN AINA via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net> escribió:
> 
> Dear PDWG,
> 
> Would it not be more appropriate for the Working Group to first allow discussions to mature to a certain level of stability before the co‑chairs request an AFRINIC staff analysis?
> 
> Section 3.4.1 of the CPM states that:
> “the Working Group Chair(s) may request AFRINIC to provide an analysis (technical, financial, legal or other) of the impact of the draft policy proposal.”
> 
> —Alain
> 
>> On 15 Jun 2026, at 10:03, Seun Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Co-Chairs,
>> 
>> I checked all the draft policy proposals at https://afrinic.net/policy/proposals and could not find stay impact analysis on them. 
>> 
>> Could you kindly have the policy liaisons look into this as ppm is right on our door step. 
>> 
>> Regards
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