<div dir="auto">Hello,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While internet shutdown remains what AFRINIC and other I* organisations should speak against, I do not believe that addressing this via an RIR policy is the right nor a practical way to do this.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The policy is simply proposing to ban certain AFRINIC members, even though those members have nothing to do with government's (usually the presidency) decision to shutdown internet. Based on the current wording of the proposal, such members could include federal/state establishments like institutions, ministries, RENs, federal and state development agencies et all who will perhaps hear the news of the ban just like any other person (and ofcourse may have been unable to do anything even if they had prior knowledge).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Overall, the fact that there is NO member within AFRINIC database called "government" makes this proposal impractical. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nevertheless, like I have said earlier, continuous effort needs to be made towards campaigning/educating against shutdowns and<span style="font-family:sans-serif"> perhaps AFRINIC as an organisation can further engage/contribute to respective governmental policies in the region (cybersecurity policies for instance). </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">May be something for the AFGWG to consider.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Regards</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 11, 2017 19:44, "SamiSalih" <<a href="mailto:sami@ntc.gov.sd">sami@ntc.gov.sd</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Dear AFRINIC PDWG Members,<br>
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Greetings,<br>
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We have received a new policy Proposal - "Anti-Shutdown (AFPUB-2017-GEN-001-DRAFT-01)"<br>
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>From the following Authors:<br>
a) Andrew Alston – Liquid Telecommunications - <a href="mailto:andrew.alston@liquidtelecom.com">andrew.alston@liquidtelecom.<wbr>com</a><br>
b) Ben Roberts – Liquid Telecommunications - <a href="mailto:ben.roberts@liquidtelecom.com">ben.roberts@liquidtelecom.com</a><br>
c) Fiona Asonga – TESPOK – <a href="mailto:tespok@tespok.co.ke">tespok@tespok.co.ke</a><br>
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Published in this link<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
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PDWG Co-chairs<br>
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