[rpd] Forum for policy discussions?

[jordi.palet at theipv6company.com]

Hi Benson,

Note that I don’t know that specific tool, however, in general I don’t think this will be useful. Several other RIRs (and similar communities) have used those “forum” tools and I can’t see them being used in reality.

You will also need to keep the email exploder working and reflect bidirectionally every message.

I assume that this tool means you need to be on-line to work on that. Email has the advantage, that you can be off-line (when you travel, have no connectivity, etc.), and respond to messages that will be sent when you’re back on-line.

Migration to mailman3, yes, of course, I guess it will be done at some point (IETF and a couple of other RIRs, NOGs, etc., already did some time ago).

Regards,
Jordi

@jordipalet

> El 8 oct 2026, a las 7:11, Benson Muite <benson_muite at emailplus.org> escribió:
> 
> 
> 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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