<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>The PDP has always been open to non-members, and to the wider internet community as a whole, hence in a sense this segregation has always existed from day one.</div><div><br></div><div>This is why when gauging consensus of a policy, both in the face to face meetings and on a list, individuals from both within the region and from outside of it, member or not, have a say towards the consensus. It also means that anyone, either inside our region or outside of it, member or not, is free to propose policy and put it through the process.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Nii Narku Quaynor <<a href="mailto:quaynor@ghana.com">quaynor@ghana.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday 28 June 2013 3:58 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Badru Ntege <<a href="mailto:ntegeb@one2net.co.ug">ntegeb@one2net.co.ug</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "AfriNIC RPD MList." <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [AFRINIC-rpd] Summary as it stands on the Academic IPv4 Policy Proposal<br></div><div><br></div><div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>...this is very interesting as separates community of individuals from resource member/LIRs who are typically organizations<br><br>On Jun 28, 2013, at 12:24, Badru Ntege <<a href="mailto:ntegeb@one2net.co.ug">ntegeb@one2net.co.ug</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii">Thanks Owen<div><br></div><div>i think my reference here was to a particular mail where it was clarified that participants though had an allegiance to an entity were on the list in their individual capacity.</div><div><br></div><div>in my country law enforcement is government and I'm sure it is the same in most countries in Africa.</div><div><br></div><div>regards</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 28, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 28, 2013, at 2:14 AM, Badru Ntege <<a href="mailto:ntegeb@one2net.co.ug">ntegeb@one2net.co.ug</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 28, 2013, at 4:39 AM, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><font> </font><br>Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that any representative of any government, member or not, is welcome to participate in the PDP as is any other individual, member or not. However, to the best of my knowledge, the PDP is limited to the participation of individuals, whether or not they represent an organization, and is not open to organizations, per se.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Interesting there is a similar discussion happening on the Arin List about government participation. You are right people participate on this list in their individual capacity and not official capacity.</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>As a member of the ARIN AC, I follow the ARIN list rather closely.</div><div><br></div><div>I think it would be more accurate to say that there is a discussion of a policy proposal submitted by individuals from US and Canadian government agencies. As part of that discussion, the topic of government participation has also come up, though it was more specifically about participation by Law Enforcement than government in general.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>rpd mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd</a></span><br></div></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________
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