<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000"><div>Dear Community,<br><br>We appreciate your enthusiasm to participate in the RPD and contribute with your valuable opinions. It’s common in such group of professional people to differ on issues, indeed it helps make the discussion more constructive. <br><br>It’s also common to react passionately since we are dealing with some of the most important resources in our continent. However we are counting on your wisdom to put aside any personal attacks and tolerate comments coming from your colleagues in this community.<br><br>You all know invoking CoC and banning persons from posting is so easy task to implement, but it’s too hard to stop our colleagues from sharing their ideas, indeed we as a community need every single contribution and we believe every post is one of the building blocks in our process.<br><br>Hence, We urge you to utilize this facility effectively but in a nice and respectful way. Perhaps we should have community members volunteer as list monitors to call out infractions of the code of conduct for the purpose of sanctioning all offenders in real time? <br><br>An email will follow to expand on unacceptable behavior and the consequences. <br><br>PDWG Co-chairs</div><div><br></div><div><span name="x"></span>Dr. Sami Salih | Assistant Professor<br>Sudan University of Science and Technology<br>Eastern Dum, P.O Box 11111-407<br>email: sami.salih@sustech.edu<br>Mob: +249122045707 <span name="x"></span><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>"Christian Ahiauzu" <christian.ahiauzu@uniport.edu.ng><br><b>To: </b>"Alan Barrett" <alan.barrett@afrinic.net><br><b>Cc: </b>"rpd >> AfriNIC Resource Policy" <rpd@afrinic.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, August 4, 2017 2:03:53 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [rpd] Blocks for code of conduct violation<br><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks. I totally agree with you<div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Alan Barrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.barrett@afrinic.net" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:alan.barrett@afrinic.net">alan.barrett@afrinic.net</a>></span> wrote:<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;">Dear community,<br> <br> It has been brought to my attention that I misinterpreted the words “He is not welcome”. I understood those words as a statement that somebody was not welcome to participate in the RPD list, but others understood them to refer to participation in the Appeal Committee.<br> <br> I am therefore removing the moderation status aginst Marcus Adomey.<br> <br> I fully agree with all the comments about the need for enforcement of the Code of Conduct to be fair. There have been many messages which, in my opinion, violate the code of conduct, but no action has been taken. I took action in this case because I believed it to be more serious than other cases, but I was wrong to see it as more serious than other cases (as I explained above, I misinterpreted “He is not welcome”).<br> <br> The PDWG co-chairs have agreed to enforce the code of conduct in future.<br><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br> Alan Barrett<br> CEO, AFRINIC<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> RPD mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br> <a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" data-mce-href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></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>