<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Dear All,</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thank you for your contributions and we look forward to more of them. </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This thread is not supposed to be a dialogue between initiators and the community about the chairmanship model of the PDWG, But we sense, looking at the various replies, that providing more clarifications may help.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">AFRINIC PDP has been organized since the beginning around a Working Group and this has been re-introduced in the current PDP adopted in 2010. A definition of PDWG can be found in section 3.3 of both current PDP manual and PDP-bis proposal. </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">PDP-bis current proposal for chairmanship is about “chair and vice-chair”. Both are elected by the Working Group and responsible for the administration of the Working Group. There is just an hierarchy in the roles and responsibilities. The Chair is the primary contact for the working group and work with the vice-chair to whom he may delegate some of his responsibilities and powers. The Chair is the sole responsible in case of appeal. This model can also be renamed as “Chair and Co-chair”.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Current PDP is not explicit about the administrative functions performed by the co-chairs and does not provide them with appropriate mechanisms to manage the PDWG and the policy proposals works, efficiently. </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> The only place one can see co-chairs roles and responsibilities description is at <a href="https://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/pdwg">https://www.afrinic.net/en/community/policy-development/pdwg</a> :</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>•<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Determining whether there is consensus during public policy discussions.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>•<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Publishing minutes of the proceedings of public policy meetings.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>•<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Initiation and termination of final review of proposals (Last Call).</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>•<span class="gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sending a report of the outcomes of policy discussions at public policy meetings to the Board of Directors.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">As you can see, Co-chairs have no role in Working group discussions moderation and policy proposal except at PPM. Thus we cannot currently see inefficiency and conflict in their moderation style as they are barely moderating / engaging in discussions at all on rpd at afrinic dot net mailing list.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Co-chairs decisions at PPM about consensus have always been problematic. Listen to participants at mic and count show of hands (always claimed to not be a voting), discuss and decide on the fly. We have seen tension among co-chairs and out-of-band discussions where co-chair expressed objections to some of the decisions taken during PPM by the team. </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">We were not looking for support (or objections) with our initial post. Initiators believe that the current policy development process should be improved to match best current practices.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">chairmanship model is just ONE area of improvements that is discussed in the proposal. We invite participants to read the full text of the proposal(1) and have a look at the presentation(2) made during the PPM (Explaining the goal of our post, and stop "i oppose" session).</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[1] <a href="https://afrinic.net/fr/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/2083-afrinic-policy-development-process-bis">https://afrinic.net/fr/community/policy-development/policy-proposals/2083-afrinic-policy-development-process-bis</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">[2] <a href="http://www.trstech.net/alain/public/AFRINIC-Policy-development-process-Bis-AIS17.pdf">http://www.trstech.net/alain/public/AFRINIC-Policy-development-process-Bis-AIS17.pdf</a> </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.trstech.net/alain/public/pdp-process-bis-chart-AIS17.pdf">http://www.trstech.net/alain/public/pdp-process-bis-chart-AIS17.pdf</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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