<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto">Comments inline pls.</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 19, 2018 5:26 PM, "Andrew Alston" <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>You are correct that the appeal process does not by the letter of the law suspend ratification – however – lets use some common sense here – ratify the policy while the appeal is running – someone
gets denied space – the appeal succeeds – you’ve just opened yourself up to one giant lawsuit</span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#4caf50">In law, common sense does not always count.</font> </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_534103951006766283WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Let the appeal committee do their work – and then move to the next step – that is only logic</p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#4caf50">The Board Chairman was clear when he said:</font></div><div dir="auto"><i><font color="#4caf50">"<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">The Board hopes that the work of the appeal committee would have reached a significant stage to serve as input for the consideration of the Board." </span></font></i></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#4caf50">One thing is clear though, the community is not ready to wait till eternity for the outcome of either processes.</font></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_534103951006766283WordSection1">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Komi Elitcha [mailto:<a href="mailto:kmw.elitcha@gmail.com" target="_blank">kmw.elitcha@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 19 January 2018 18:45<br>
<b>To:</b> Saul Stein <<a href="mailto:saul@enetworks.co.za" target="_blank">saul@enetworks.co.za</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> rpd <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" target="_blank">rpd@afrinic.net</a>></span></p><div class="quoted-text"><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [rpd] [pdwg-appeal] SoftLanding BIS notice of intent to appeal<u></u><u></u></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2018-01-17 13:35 GMT+00:00 Saul Stein <<a href="mailto:saul@enetworks.co.za" target="_blank">saul@enetworks.co.za</a>>:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color:#1f497d">Board, please can you confirm that you will not be making any decisions on this policy until the appeal has been completed.</span><span lang="EN-ZA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color:#1f497d">Thanks</span><span lang="EN-ZA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-ZA" style="color:#1f497d">Saul</span><span lang="EN-ZA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Nothing in the PDP says appeal and especially appeal against " last call consensus " is suspensive of the process.</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">In all cases, this is another improvement area of the PDP which PDP-BIS shall address.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"></span><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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