<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi Andrew,</div><div>Thank you for your clear input. I can't agree more with you on that. It is not just about saying this is good or bad; It is about getting involved and help make things better and more globally acceptable. </div><div>But efforts are needed on both sides:</div><div><br></div><div>-The interested stakeholders in the community should take time to learn the process, understand it and help change what is imperfect... Policies are there to evolve.</div><div>- Afrinic as a community driven organization should continue doing more efforts to have more people in the PDP process.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Victor.<br><br><div>************</div><div>Victor Ndonnang</div><div><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/VictorNdonnang" style="font-size: 13pt;">https://twitter.com/VictorNdonnang</a></div><div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">~Sent from my iPhone~</span></div></div><div><br>On Sep 21, 2014, at 2:25 AM, Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<font size="3" face="Calibri">after year I have stood at PdP meetings and we get people in the room, lots of them, but when it comes to discussions about policy on the PdP list, I would be amazed there are more than 15 or 20 people who actually get involved
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<div>This has been spoken about MANY times. But I say this, it is like an election in a country, if the community does not choose to partake in the PdP lists, and does not choose to get involved in the formulation of policy (and the modifications to policies
they aren’t happy with etc), then they have absolutely zero right to complain afterwards if the policies that are put in place do not meet their needs. </div>
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<div>My message to the community, if you feel the current policies aren’t working, or you aren’t happy with them, write new ones, go to the PdP, and if the rest of the community is in agreement with you, your amendments/new policies will get passed, if they
don’t pass, listen to WHY the community isn’t passing them, and either change your position or modify so that the community is happy with them. Basically: Take some responsibility for the policies that are out there, since you, as a community put them there,
either through showing consensus at a meeting, or through apathy that stopped you objecting to them) and you as a community have the chance to change them.</div>
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