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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">On 3 Dec 2015 at 10:00, Mwendwa Kivuva <Kivuva@transworldafrica.com> wrote:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> There was an interesting debate yesterday at the floor of the Policy discussion</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> meeting on how the co-chairs should phrase questions when gauging consensus for</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> policies. There were those who felt that the co-chairs did not ask the right questions</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> which would help the policy author determine the actions needed to take the policy</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> forward. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Is there a standard way to phrase consensus questions or are the co-chairs required to</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">There is no standard way and the AFRINIC PDP does not define any such standard, I think it
should not. Gauging consensus is a debate that takes place very often among PDP
Co-chairs and it should.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">It needs to be realised that the Co-chairs do not have to ask questions to gauge consensous.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">In the past few sessions of of AFRINIC policy sessions, Co-chairs have badly tended to take
what has been looked at as a vote including a show of hands. Consensus on the PDP is not
a vote - should not be a vote - and indeed such assessment has led to unnecessary
complication on various policy drafts in the AFRINIC policy process.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Consensus determination by Co-chairs needs to be authoritative, so authoritative in fact that
the PDP lays out an appeal, complaint or Co-chair recall process if any member of the
PDWG makes a successful challenge of the decision by the Co-chairs.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">And by the way, Co-chairs do not report to the Board at any time or process including tenure
except when a policy has reached maturity through the PDP for approval by the Board.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Regards,</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Paulos</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Dr Paulos B Nyirenda</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Regards</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> "There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime." - Maxwell Anderson</span></font></div>
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