<div dir="ltr">Dear Ornella,<div>I have read through your proposal and i have some reservations specifically on the need to have one chair and a vice-chair. While your justification could also be that it exist in other climes, i do not see or foresee any current and future problem that should make the community change the existing arrangement. The question is: Has the current arrangement given the community any issues in the past or recently?</div><div>Why the call for the change now that things are stable and there is unity in the community?</div><div>We need to consider the fact that power of rough consensus will be vested / concentrated in one person who will only ask his vice-chair for his/her opinion which might probably never count.The choice of co-chair by the community is strictly to foster team work and create a balance in opinion and measure the rough consensus fairly. What if the only chair has a conflict of interest? How do we curb the excesses of over concentration of powers in one chair?</div><div>Secondly, this is a voluntary job and there is lots of work to be done, why overload one chair with so much work and make a vice-chair dormant and can only be activated for sundry assignments? </div><div>While my opinion could be wrong from the comments i have made above, i wish to get some clear understanding / corrections on the need to make the change of the current structure or perhaps, learn from experienced senior members of the community in this regard.</div><div><br></div><div>Caleb</div><div><br><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Ornella GANKPA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:honest1989@gmail.com" target="_blank">honest1989@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello everyone,<br>
<br>
Initiators of the new pdp-bis proposal AFPUB-2017-GEN-002-DRAFT-01<br>
[1], in an effort to improve the policy, are willing to hear from the<br>
working group, about settling the matter around one chair and a<br>
vice-chair compared to the current model of 2 cochairs .<br>
<br>
In the current situation, chairs with the same level of responsabilities<br>
can get stuck when making decision towards a policy proposal thus<br>
hindering its progress. Working group discussion moderation by two<br>
independent individuals can be inefficient. This lack of "consensus"<br>
between co-chairs freezes the working group operations as well as the<br>
policy development process<br>
<br>
Our proposal aims to settle those issues with one chair who makes the<br>
final decision and a vice chair.<br>
<br>
Community might be concerned about giving one single Chair, too much<br>
power. The balance with that is found in stricking deeply the appeal<br>
process to make it as larger as possible and open to anybody at any step<br>
of a policy proposal's life.<br>
<br>
During AIS17 in Nairobi, initiators have gathered positive comments from<br>
the floor, some supporting linguistic diversity between Chairs. We're<br>
willing to pursue the debate and bring some new air to the proposal.<br>
<br>
Thanks all beforehand for your comments.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
[1]<br>
<a href="https://afrinic.net/fr/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/2083-afrinic-policy-development-process-bis" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://afrinic.net/fr/<wbr>community/policy-development/<wbr>policy-proposals/2083-afrinic-<wbr>policy-development-process-bis</a><br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Honest Ornella GANKPA<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
---<br>
L'absence de virus dans ce courrier électronique a été vérifiée par le logiciel antivirus Avast.<br>
<a href="https://www.avast.com/antivirus" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.avast.com/<wbr>antivirus</a><br>
</font></span><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
RPD mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/rpd</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b><font size="4" color="#33ccff">Ogundele Olumuyiwa Caleb</font></b><div><font color="#993300"><i><b><a href="mailto:muyiwacaleb@gmail.com" target="_blank">muyiwacaleb@gmail.com</a></b></i></font></div><div><i><b><font color="#666666">234 - 8077377378</font></b></i></div><div><i><b><font color="#666666">234 - 07030777969</font></b></i></div></div></div>
</div></div>