[rpd] Forum for policy discussions?

[Jaco Kroon]

Hi,

If people stop using digests the problem would sort itself out on the spot.

Kind regards,
Jaco

On 2026/10/08 07:11, Benson Muite wrote:
> Policy discussions have so far been done on a mailing list.  This has
> worked well, but occasionally, the norm of keeping threads intact is not
> followed and norms/policies for the AFRINIC RPD mailing list have not
> been explicitly written down.  This can make it difficult to follow
> discussions and for people new to mailing lists to make contributions.
>
> Would using a tool like Loomio:
> https://www.loomio.com/
> be considered for managing discussions?  It could be hosted by AFRINIC
> or by another service provider in Africa, or even elsewhere - ip address
> log data would be the only thing that is not typically public.  As the
> software is open source, it could be modified to better suite Afrinic
> policy discussions.  It does have an API:
> https://www.loomio.com/docs/en/user_manual/integrations/api
> so creating a mobile application for those that do not want to use the
> web interface is possible.  One can also setup chat integrations for
> those who may prefer not to get notifications by email.
>
> AFRINIC is still running Mailman2, probably this will be updated to
> Mailman3 or some other mailing list software, so some migration of
> communication infrastructure will occur and it maybe a good change to
> evaluate what will work best for policy and other discussions.
>
> Regards,
> Benson
>
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