[rpd] Forum for policy discussions?

[Sylvain BAYA]

Le 8 octobre 2026 12:49:02 GMT+01:00, Jaco Kroon via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net> a écrit :
>Hi,
>
>If people stop using digests the problem would sort itself out on the spot.
>

Dear Jaco,
Thanks for your email; brother!

...imho! it's not a matter of existance of 
a particular *feature*; which particularly 
exists for a *good* reason.

What i suspect is that: some use of that 
feature may result to an abuse behavior.

If we observed it; then the recommended 
reaction, imho, should be to look at the 
causes and apply an appropriate fix.

...i propose to look at it twice or more; 
because, we need to avoid to easily set 
a precedent.
We should note that, next time our preferred *feature* would be abused by 
some *exceptional* use; then next step 
would be obviously to call for removing it.
This is not what we want?

...i recall that, there is this old resource: 

The rules of netiquette | Software Reference 
:: https://web.archive.org/web/20120710021154/http://www.swref.com/story/20090705/the_rules_of_netiquette

Etiquette in technology#Netiquette 
:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_technology#Netiquette


Shalom,
--sb.

>
>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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