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    Dear JRH, PDWG,
    <p>Thank you for the various comments and questions on the Board's
      reasoning RE: Appeal Committee's TOR.</p>
    <p>Recall my initial email that we will not be responding to every
      comments and conversation, but will put together and consider all
      comments at the end of the comments period. <br>
    </p>
    <p>The Board continues to encourage an active discussion on the
      matter and we will compile all views at the end of the comments
      period.<br>
    </p>
    <p>Kindly make alternative proposals to whatever arrangement you
      consider not appropriate in the current draft TOR as circulated.</p>
    <p>Best regards <br>
    </p>
    <p>Sunday.<br>
    </p>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/08/2017 20:08, Hountomey Jean
      Robert wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CANUCqKHHvnz4=RTEGNDvX7Vfjtocc440zKwTVjCjgXwg8VLB6Q@mail.gmail.com">
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          <div>Owen,<br>
            I see your point and I respect your opinion. I also thank
            for your the clarification. I personally see passionate
            debate. I am not here to pass judgment on others. I believe
            that letting people express their opinion unite us instead
            of dividing us. "No discussion can throw light if it wanders
            from the real point". An African proverb teaches us "You
            must attend to your business with the vendor in the market,
            and not to the noise of the market". I have asked questions
            to my leadership and I want to hear from them to make sure I
            understand.<br>
            I thank you very much.<br>
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          Best Regards.<br>
        </div>
        Jean-Robert Hountomey.<br>
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        <div class="gmail_quote">2017-08-02 13:19 GMT-05:00 Owen DeLong
          <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com"
              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">owen@delong.com</a>></span>:<br>
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                    <div>On Aug 2, 2017, at 07:53 , Noah <<a
                        href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" target="_blank"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">noah@neo.co.tz</a>>
                      wrote:</div>
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                        <div dir="auto">Dear Afrinic Board Chair,</div>
                        <div dir="auto"><br>
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                        <div dir="auto">I almost missed this and I have
                          quickly gone through it and I want to thank
                          you for your effort ref: this Appeal Committee
                          Terms of Reference, however, I have some
                          questions section 2.?</div>
                        <div dir="auto"><br>
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                        <div dir="auto">Seats 1 and 2: Two of the past
                          chairs or past co-chairs of the AFRINIC policy
                          development working group (PDWG).</div>
                        <div dir="auto"><br>
                        </div>
                        <div dir="auto">+1 and in support of the
                          selection of seat 1 and 2 as those make sense.</div>
                        <div dir="auto"><br>
                        </div>
                        <div dir="auto"><br>
                        </div>
                        <div dir="auto">For Seats 3 and 4:   I wonder if
                          other RIR's have provisions that require
                          members from the AFRINIC region to seat in
                          their appeal committees? </div>
                      </div>
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                  <div><br>
                  </div>
                </span>Other RIRs have very different circumstances. As
                is often pointed out even when the circumstances in the
                AfriNIC region are not so different. However, in this
                case, they are quite different. No other RIR has such a
                degree of infighting nor such a large degree of mistrust
                among the factions around their policy proposals.
                Indeed, in the other regions, the factions on any given
                policy proposal are often quite different and you don’t
                find nearly identical groups clumping together in
                support or opposition of a proposal as you do in the
                AfriNIC region. Indeed, to the best of my knowledge, no
                other RIR has even such a review committee in the first
                place.</div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>I don’t know the appeal process (if one exists) in
                RIPE, LACNIC, or APNIC, but in the ARIN region, the
                process is governed by what we call the petition
                process. If members of the community dislike a decision
                of the ARIN Advisory Council, they can petition that
                action on the mailing list. If enough other independent
                participants express support for the petition, </div>
              <div><br>
              </div>
              <div>Details are here: <a
                  href="https://www.arin.net/policy/pdp_petitions.html"
                  target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.arin.net/policy/<wbr>pdp_petitions.html</a></div>
              <div><br>
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                      <div dir="auto">
                        <div dir="auto">I fail to understand the
                          rational around selecting 2 members from 2
                          different RIR's as if the AFRINIC community
                          lacks people within our region who can fill up
                          seats 3 and 4.</div>
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                  <div><br>
                  </div>
                </span>I believe the intent is to create a greater
                degree of independence from the internal politics
                inherent in the AfriNIC region and to increase the
                transparency and fairness of the process. I think this
                is a legitimate approach in this case because, frankly,
                I think that members from different RIRs are more likely
                to examine the issue purely on the record and the merits
                of the arguments without regard for the factionalism and
                politics involved. These are issues that simply either
                don’t exist or are a much much smaller problem in the
                other RIRs.</div>
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                    <div>
                      <div dir="auto">
                        <div dir="auto">For Seat 5: A current or past
                          chair or vice chair of the NRO NC/ASO AC, who
                          is not from the AFRINIC region.</div>
                        <div dir="auto"><br>
                        </div>
                        <div dir="auto">What is the rational behind
                          this?  I mean the Afrinic board cant find, out
                          of a continent with 1.2 billion people, one
                          person from within the AFRINIC numbering or
                          names community who can take up seat 5?.</div>
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                  <div><br>
                  </div>
                </span>Again, I believe that the intent here is similar
                to the intent with seats 3 and 4. I consider this an
                entirely reasonable approach to maintaining the
                independence of the appeals committee and applaud the
                board’s wisdom and foresight in this matter.</div>
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                  <div>Owen</div>
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                          <div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"
                            dir="auto">Cheers,</div>
                          <div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"
                            dir="auto">Noah</div>
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                        <div class="gmail_quote">On 19 Jul 2017 3:54
                          p.m., "Sunday Folayan" <<a
                            href="mailto:sfolayan@gmail.com"
                            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">sfolayan@gmail.com</a>>
                          wrote:<br type="attribution">
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                            #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear PDWG,<br>
                            <br>
                            The AFRINIC Board of Directors intends to
                            establish an Appeal Committee to give effect
                            to the requirements in section 3.5 of the
                            Consolidated Policy Manual (that is, the
                            Conflict resolution portion of the Policy
                            Development Process).<br>
                            <br>
                            The Appeal Committee Terms of Reference
                            (version 1) is published at <a
                              href="https://afrinic.net/en/community/working-groups/policy-appeal"
                              rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"
                              moz-do-not-send="true">https://afrinic.net/en/communi<wbr>ty/working-groups/policy-appea<wbr>l</a><br>
                            <br>
                            The Board calls for comments on the Terms of
                            Reference for a 30 day period, ending on 19
                            August 2017. Comments may be sent to the RPD
                            mailing list <<a
                              href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net"
                              target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">rpd@afrinic.net</a>>.<br>
                            <br>
                            The Board intends to appoint an interim
                            Appeal Committee without delay, to cater for
                            the possibility that an appeal might be
                            filed before the comments on the Terms of
                            reference can be taken into account. We seek
                            the cooperation of the community in this
                            regard.<br>
                            <br>
                            Sunday Folayan<br>
                            Chair of the AFRINIC Board of Directors<br>
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