<div dir="auto"><div>+1 Owen<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have the same intentions and you have hit the points on the head. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And yes to be corrected, relevance of views and opinions are not judged based on identity.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">By the way, the co-chairs have also made a statement on this here ICYMI;</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2018/008597.html">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2018/008597.html</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best! </div><div dir="auto">Ti</><br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, 12:35 AM Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Everyone is free to contribute, but we’d like to know who you are so we can put your remarks in context and also to have some assurance that multiple identities aren’t a bunch of sock puppets commenting on behalf of a single author.<div><br></div><div>I hope you can understand. No intention (at least on my part) of discounting your remarks. I don’t even discount remarks from those who oppose my position, let alone those supporting it, but I do like to know who I am debating or agreeing with.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Dec 2, 2018, at 08:04 , <a href="mailto:1mgirlieadezpet@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">1mgirlieadezpet@gmail.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="m_-8350056456536606672Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Please I stand to be corrected but I believe that the mailing list is a neutral platform where "everyone" is "free" to contribute. Does this mean that the level of importance or relevance attached to views and opinions will now be judged based on "identity"?<div id="m_-8350056456536606672yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543766569149"><br><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543766559671">Please find attached. <div id="m_-8350056456536606672yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543765708051"><br><div id="m_-8350056456536606672ymail_android_signature">Adepetun Oluwaseun .I.<br>System Administrator/Analyst<br>EPETUKU TECHNOLOGIES<br>Abuja, Nigeria.</div> <br> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 20px 0"> <div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#6d00f6"> <div>On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Timothy Ola Akinfenwa</div><div><<a href="mailto:akin.akinfenwa@uniosun.edu.ng" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">akin.akinfenwa@uniosun.edu.ng</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6d00f6"> <div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336"><div><div>Hello,<div>Is it possible for you to attach your identity to this and future email to the RPD list?</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Ti</></div></div><div class="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336gmail_quote">On 2 Dec 2018 1:54 PM, "<a rel="nofollow noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:1mgirlieadezpet@gmail.com" target="_blank">1mgirlieadezpet@gmail.com</a>" <<a rel="nofollow noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:1mgirlieadezpet@gmail.com" target="_blank">1mgirlieadezpet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have been following up closely as events have been unfolding. I can easily deduce that the authors of this policy have clearly shown little to no regard for the opinion of the community.<div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543754183066"><br clear="none"><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543753591840">I mean, why would they still present and try to impose the exact same papers/documents that majority of the participants were vehemently opposed to at the last meeting in Dakar? We all are well aware that the RSA has addressed this policy.</div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543754186157"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543753951941">Why would they call for contributions from the community when it is now obvious that their clear intent was to disregard anyway?</div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543754179261"> </div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543754191435">Why push a policy rejected by the community to the last call stage when no positive consensus has been agreed upon? The community should have been informed to stay completely out of the development process since a few number of us have decided to monopolize and impose certain policies with or without the acceptance of the majority.</div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543754502825"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543754519700">I still want to give the chairs and co-chairs a benefit of the doubt. I want to believe this is an error so I will like for them to revert and do the needful ASAP as this will eventually result in lack of trust in their capacity.</div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543754594535"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543754602239">To the authors, there are better ways to address a situation such as this. Antagonism/ aggression and/or intimidation is clearly not the right way.</div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543754766364"><br clear="none"></div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543754767055">Warmest regards.</div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543754773331">Graceful</div><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858yMail_cursorElementTracker_1543753726780"><div class="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336quoted-text"><div id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336m_6058764489541703858ymail_android_signature"><a rel="nofollow noreferrer" shape="rect" href="https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature" target="_blank">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a></div> <br clear="none"> <blockquote style="margin:0 0 20px 0"> <div style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#6d00f6"> <div>On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 6:03 PM, Mark Elkins</div><div><<a rel="nofollow noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:mje@posix.co.za" target="_blank">mje@posix.co.za</a>> wrote:</div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0 0 20px;margin:10px 0 0 0;border-left:1px solid #6d00f6"> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">RPD mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noreferrer" shape="rect" href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" target="_blank">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow noreferrer" shape="rect" href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd" target="_blank">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd</a><div class="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336yqt8661704534 m_-8350056456536606672yQTDBase" id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336yqtfd31748"><br clear="none"> </div></div><div class="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336yqt8661704534 m_-8350056456536606672yQTDBase" id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336yqtfd57588"> </div></blockquote></div></div></div><div class="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336yqt8661704534 m_-8350056456536606672yQTDBase" id="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336yqtfd76363"><div class="m_-8350056456536606672yiv9051440336elided-text">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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