[rpd] Forum for policy discussions?

[Benson Muite]

"jordi.palet--- via RPD" <rpd at afrinic.net> writes:

Hi Jordi,

> 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.

AFRINIC is a bit different than other RIRs, so it maybe worth trying to
make things work well for AFRINIC not just doing exactly the same as
other RIRs.

>
> 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.
>

Yes, it is possible to use an email based workflow rather than the web
interface for most things, though one would need to configure this:
https://www.loomio.com/docs/en/user_manual/users/email_settings

It is structured for decision making:
https://www.loomio.com/docs/en/guides/making_decisions

At present, in addition to discussion, public polls are often used to
get a sense of opinions, though one could replace these with a machine
learning sentiment analysis tool to analyse written respones or not use
either of these.

> 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).
>

If the primary concern is replies to digests, then upgrading will help.
More extensive changes to improve the efficiency of the consensus
process would probably require using other tools as well or instead.

> Regards,
> Jordi

Regards,
Benson