<div dir="ltr"><br><div><br></div><div>Hi Seun,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your comments.</div><div><br></div><div>I just reviewed the video:<br><a href="https://youtu.be/ngM0Ni9ZNM4">https://youtu.be/ngM0Ni9ZNM4</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Actually mine was the one with lowest amount of reaction, at around 20, while to previous proposal got around 30 reactions (I just quickly browsed through and may have missed the part with more support for me).</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">But the amounts are not important, policy making has never been a vote within our communities, the tool is good to give an idea of a general feeling of the participants during a live session, really especially good for the ones who do not speak English, but at the same time, it doesn't offer the opportunity to argument an objection, it is imperative that objections are accompanied with a reason or argument as to why the policy proposal is bad or broken so that the proposer can rework the policy text and eventually address the objections or simply drop the proposal altogether.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">One well documented objection is worth more than one thousand empty +1 support.<br>And it should always be like that.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is one of the dynamics that I love in the AFRINIC community btw, where arguments are made and the proposer can quickly throw in a new and updated version online to address those arguments.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I will prepare something for AFRINIC, so it can at least get discussed and reviewed to weight in the pros and cons of a potential implementation of a "no need" based transfers.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As I mentioned earlier it is done at RIPE already and it didn't have any negative impact over there.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:arial;color:rgb(247,117,31)" lang="EN-US">David Hilario<span></span></span></p>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 5 March 2017 at 12:18, Seun Ojedeji <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Hello,</span><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">I happen to be in the room during the APNIC PPM. A number of proposals were discussed before prop-118 with each of them having their total number of CONFER responders averaging within the 20s but prop-118 averaged in the 40s. That could be because it was discussed much later and there were more people connected (by the way CONFER allows both on-site/offsite participation[1]).</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">However, irrespective of any hypothesis that may ensue, the SIG Chair already flag early prior to prop-118 the fact that CONFER was a tool in its trial phase hence it's results were going to be considered within those realities (paraphrasing)[2]</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">On that note, situations are different in our region hence our approach may be different so I will encourage David to put up any policy proposal forward for this community to discuss. In the long run, it's this community participating in this rpd that decides irrespective of the happenings/decision in other region.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">I am for one glad that some of our region members are also following other RIR discussions as it's the way we can be better informed and derive our independent views (however valid or invalid they might be)</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">Regards</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">1. Our community may want to consider it's use case as it concerns remote participation</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px">2. Anyone further interested can check the video logs on the APRICOT website.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail-h5">On 4 Mar 2017 11:04 AM, "Jackson Muthili" <<a href="mailto:jacksonmuthi@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacksonmuthi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail-h5"><br><br>On Saturday, March 4, 2017, Alan Barrett <<a href="mailto:alan.barrett@afrinic.net" target="_blank">alan.barrett@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
> On 3 Mar 2017, at 21:47, Jackson Muthili <<a>jacksonmuthi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> We follow APNIC discussion. Do not mislead the community. There was no problem with their software. You tried to cheat by putting fake participants to vote for your policy and you were caught.<br>
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> Your questionable ethic puts me at a position to oppose any policy you introduce in our region.<br>
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