<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000"><div><div>Dear PDWG,</div><div><br></div><div>We appreciate your active discussion regarding the soft landing policy.</div><div><br></div><div>This is to declare the end of the Seven Days comment period on developing a common proposal according to the points commonly agreed before whether in the RPD or at PPMs.</div><div><br></div><div>So far we have Mark Elkins and Arsène Tungali as the only volunteers. We hope they can edit the commonly agreed view in a new policy update proposal document and work with other community members including authors of previous proposals that wish to lend their experience.</div><div><br></div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>PDWG Co-Chairs<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Honest Ornella GANKPA" <honest1989@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"Dewole Ajao" <dewole@forum.org.ng><br><b>Cc: </b>"rpd" <rpd@afrinic.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, March 27, 2017 4:49:22 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [rpd] Report of the Soft Landing isuue<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Hello Dewole<div><br></div><div>It has been suggested to take the points which have consensus on the wide variety and get an editor to come up with a new version if we really do not want the current authors to do it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Honest Ornella GANKPA<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-03-27 8:52 GMT+01:00 Dewole Ajao <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dewole@forum.org.ng" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:dewole@forum.org.ng">dewole@forum.org.ng</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto"><div>The proposal "already in the PDP" (as you put it) deals with a wide variety of areas. That collection of areas has not found consensus. If the authors choose to whittle the proposal down to those areas that the community largely agrees on, the co-chairs would not need to point out areas that volunteers can adopt and put forward. </div><div id="m_4982999129498417818AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_4982999129498417818AppleMailSignature">Although proposals (once submitted to the RPD list) are supposed to be owned by the community and not the authors, the current definition/implementation of the AFRINIC PDP does not promote that enough. I stand to be corrected but I think that is why we find ourselves in this logjam today. </div><div id="m_4982999129498417818AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_4982999129498417818AppleMailSignature">The submission presented by co-chairs a week ago was to allow a chance to do things the collaborative way. A chance to disconnect from whatever sentiments exist and tackle policy issues (which is why we are here). </div><div id="m_4982999129498417818AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="m_4982999129498417818AppleMailSignature"><span style="background-color:" data-mce-style="">I fail to see what makes you think the co-chairs are focusing on authors rather than policy. </span><span class="HOEnZb"><span class="HOEnZb"><span data-mce-style="color: #888888;" style="color: #888888;"><br></span></span></span><div><br></div><span class="HOEnZb"><span data-mce-style="color: #888888;" style="color: #888888;">Dewole. </span></span></div><div id="m_4982999129498417818AppleMailSignature"><br>Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse typos and autocorrect strangeness. </div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 26 Mar 2017, at 8:52 PM, Honest Ornella GANKPA <<a href="mailto:honest1989@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:honest1989@gmail.com">honest1989@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div><br></div></div><blockquote><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="m_4982999129498417818gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Dewole,<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><i>2017-03-26 18:37 GMT+01:00 Dewole Ajao <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dewole@forum.org.ng" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:dewole@forum.org.ng">dewole@forum.org.ng</a>></span>:<br></i><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" data-mce-style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><p><i>There is more to benefit from collaborating on a single draft rather than spewing out multiple proposals. </i></p></div></blockquote><div>Agreed! So why are you asking for new proposals when there is already one in PDP. Co-chairs need to focus on policy not authors.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><div> Honest Ornella GANKPA</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>RPD mailing list<br>RPD@afrinic.net<br>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></body></html>