[rpd] Forum for policy discussions?

[Owen DeLong]

Digests in general cause more problems than they solve and I would favor AFRINIC discontinuing support for digests on RPD, personally.

I don’t favor migrating away from email. I, and I suspect many other users have built various forms of automation over the years to handle and help manage list discussions. All of that effort would go out the window if we migrated away from email and it would, IMHO, make participation significantly less convenient. (I realize there are those in the community that would view that as a feature in my case, but nonetheless, I suspect I would not be the only person negatively impacted.)

Owen


> On Oct 8, 2026, at 08:57, ben.roberts--- via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net> wrote:
> 
> And dont reply to digests
> 
> 
> Get Outlook for Mac <https://aka.ms/GetOutlookForMac>
> From: jordi.palet--- via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net>
> Date: Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 14:58
> To: rpd at afrinic.net <rpd at afrinic.net>
> Subject: Re: [rpd] Forum for policy discussions?
> 
> And I will add:
> 
> Keep the thread in the message, not start a new “empty” email.
> 
> The emails I responded to today took much more time, and may have even had misunderstandings, because the original message/thread was not there.
> 
> Regards,
> Jordi
> 
> @jordipalet
> 
> El 8 oct 2026, a las 13:49, Jaco Kroon via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net> escribió:
> 
> 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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