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<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
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<div>The Abuse Contact Information Policy Proposal did not gather consensus during the AfriNIC 12 Public Policy meeting held on 3rd June 2010 in Kigali, Rwanda. In line with the AfriNIC PDP, the policy proposal returns to the Resource Policy Discuss (RPD)mailing list (<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" target="_blank">rpd@afrinic.net</a>) for further discussion and may be presented at the next AfriNIC Public Policy meeting.</div>
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<div>The input from the community was as follows:</div>
<div>1. That a role handle (abuse-c) is used instead of an IRT Object</div>
<div>2. That the role handle (abuse-c) is made optional.</div>
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<div>Other than the above, it was apparent that majority of the community did not clearly understand the policy proposal. The discussions that have ensued after the AfriNIC 12 public policy meeting are an attestation to this and have gone a long way in enhancing the understanding of the community and thus the need or not for such a policy in our region.</div>
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<div>I therefore appeal to the community to participate in the discussions on this (and other policy proposals) so that we can all contribute towards this all important process.</div>
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<div>You can find the text of the policy proposal at: <a href="http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2010-GEN-002.htm" target="_blank">http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2010-GEN-002.htm</a>. The author of policy proposal will revise the text in order to reflect the input from the community.</div>
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<div>You can find out more about the AfriNIC PDP at: <a href="http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2008-GEN-001.htm" target="_blank">http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/AFPUB-2008-GEN-001.htm</a>.</div>
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<div>To subscribe to the AfriNIC Resource Policy Discuss mailing list (the AfriNIC policy discussion mailing list), please send a blank email with the subject 'subscribe' to </div></font><a href="mailto:rpd-request@afrinic.net" target="_blank"><u><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">rpd-request@afrinic.net</font></font></u></a><font size="2">.</font>
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<div><font size="2">Kind Regards,</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Vincent Ngundi</font></div>
<div><font size="2"><b><u>Chair, AfriNIC PDP-MG</u></b></font></div>