<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Dear Andrew,</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>On behalf of the appeal committee</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We acknowledge receipt of your <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; float: none; display: inline !important;">appeal against the declaration of consensus regarding policy proposal AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT07.</span></span></div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>De: </b>"Andrew Alston" <Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com><br><b>À: </b>"rpd" <rpd@afrinic.net>, pdwg-appeal@afrinic.net<br><b>Envoyé: </b>Vendredi 29 Décembre 2017 17:45:24<br><b>Objet: </b>[pdwg-appeal] SoftLanding BIS notice of intent to appeal<br></div><br><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi PDWG Appeal Committee,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">Please consider this notice of intent to appeal against the declaration of consensus regarding policy proposal AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT07</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">The appellants no longer have the belief that this situation can be resolved in the absence of an official appeal – and emails sent requesting engagement within 48 hours have gone ignored and
unanswered.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">The issue has been discussed with the requisite number of members as per section 5.2.(d) of the appeal committee terms of reference as indicated by the emails from:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">Owen De Long</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">Saul Stein</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">Andrew Alston</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">Sander Steffann</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">Mark Elkins</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">All these emails were sent within the last 48 hours as of the time of writing this email.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">The full appeal documents will follow within the next 24 hours that we believe will clearly demonstrate that the co-chair’s decision to declare consensus was in error and should be forfeit.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">Yours Sincerely</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt" data-mce-style="font-size:11.0pt">Andrew Alston</span></p>
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