<p>Hi All,</p>
<p>The simple fact in my view is that sadly, what is broken goes beyond the simple rules and bylaws. Yes, the bylaws and rules need to be changes to avoid the abuse of loopholes which allow people to act outside of the will of the community, and I hope to see this happen. But more to the point, what I saw in Gambia was a huge amount of factionalization and large political undercurrents that distract from the real issues.</p>
<p>Until we fix this people will continue to attempt to use the political process to advance their own agendas. The sad fact is, fixing the rules should be the easy part, fixing the various factions is far harder.</p>
<p>With regards to the bylaws though, I looked a minute ago at the submitted comments on the bylaw revisions and with all this debate going on, was shocked to find that there were only two submitted comments, both mine!</p>
<p>The PDP list has become far more active since Dar Es Salaam but when there is a call for comments on the bylaws and there are no comments, I once again worry about community involvement. It is well and good for all of us, myself included, to sit here and state the problems, but if we don't submit comments through the right channels nothing will change!</p>
<p>I therefore appeal to you all to please let your voices be heard, lets fix the rules and at the same time work on working together as a community on the real business of AfriNIC.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Andrew</p>
<p>P.S sorry for any typos and formatting errors, enabling from a phone is a pain!</p>
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