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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Chair,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thank you for the work that was put into this, I to agree that it is a difficult job that the appeals committee has to perform when caught in the middle between opposing opinions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Having read your conclusions, I would now ask that the authors of this policy consider this conclusion carefully and give serious thought to if they wish to continue with this proposal and potentially
put this community back into this position again in future (which I acknowledge they are entirely within their rights to do, should they choose to do so).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">wafa DAHMANI <wafa@ati.tn><br>
<b>Date: </b>Saturday, 3 March 2018 at 17:09<br>
<b>To: </b>rpd <rpd@afrinic.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[rpd] Appeal on AFPUB-2016-V4-001-DRAFT-07 Softlanding policy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://afrinic.net/en/community/working-groups/policy-appeal/appeals" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">https://afrinic.net/en/community/working-groups/policy-appeal/appeals</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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