<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://3681/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">My understanding now is that the Appeal committee is now ready to receive a formal appeal against the Last Call on Review Policy, I hope?<div><br></div><div>--Daniel<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 5, 2018, at 3:50 PM, Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>See Sadly I believe this broke down a long time ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>Go back and watch the video of the Mauritian meeting with another policy where multiple appeals were made from multiple people at the floor asking for withdrawal and it was consented to in my belief (though they now dispute that, despite that which is clearly on the video) and have pushed that ahead time and again to the point where it was defeated by the appeal process as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>The definition of consensus is clear in the face of an unaddressed sustained objection there can be no consensus but there are those who believe this does not apply to them. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>We sit in a situation where there are those who stand at the microphone and openly and plainly advocate that the bylaws can be ignored.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>We sit in a situation where a co-chair comes to the list and instead of saying I was granted 6 months by a vote of this community my term has expired attempts to justify and obscure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>We sit in a situation where the members of this organisation requested a vote of no confidence in the board and the board refused to table the motion.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>We sit in a situation where when the board lost quorum for an AGMM instead of turning to the community and saying we have a major problem help us fix it via an SGMM and a vote on the bylaws to fix the problem chose instead to approach the courts.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>We sit in a situation where in Mauritius with a multitude of bylaw changes were proposed to rectify various corporate governance issues including a simple thing like stating that when a director leaves the board, he is obliged to renounce his legal membership of the company could not get a vote to pass because some individuals believed that you dont vote for something you yourself propose.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>We sit in a situation where those who once had such good intentions architecture a way to stay relevant for a period that is *<b>at minimum</b>* 18 years after they left the board.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>But instead of us acknowledging things are fundamentally broken and then working towards fixing them we deny the problems we hide our heads in the sand and we employ whataboutism (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism</a>) en mass.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>There can be no repair in this community until it is prepared to take a long hard look and acknowledge that there is something deeply wrong, and that things are deeply flawed. For myself personally and I admit this I have gotten to the point where I no longer have faith that things will be repaired and as I have stated in previous emails I believe that the only time things will come right is when an external party with more authority finally adjudicates.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>That being said I cannot and will not be the man who stands on the boat knowing there is a giant hole in the bow and the water is flooding in and at the risk of offending others holds my tongue and says nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>Even in writing this I am fully cognisant of those who are going to employ more whataboutism to attack what I am saying here but Im actually ok with that because it will simply prove what I have said time and again.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>It is a sad situation but in life we deal with such all the time and somehow we continue but can we really claim we have a community anymore? Or are we in fact a very divided group where no one group will give an inch and are pulling in opposite directions? Where factionalism and dare I say it a strange form of policy tribalism now grips us.?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span>Andrew<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>aleruchi chuku <<a href="mailto:aleruchichuku@yahoo.com">aleruchichuku@yahoo.com</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>05 December 2018 17:32<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:pdwg-appeal@afrinic.net">pdwg-appeal@afrinic.net</a><br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>rpd List <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net">rpd@afrinic.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [rpd] Query on appeal<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Andrew + 1 in support of the appeal<o:p></o:p></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1544019767373"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1544019769338"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">But I must say that it is sad that we got to this stage. Something is drastically not right somewhere. Every policy presented to the community must not move to the next stage until 80 -90% of concerns raised by the community is addressed.(afterall It's the same community that will implement or be recipients of the policy)<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1544020153431"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1544019931099"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Rather we are saddled with a policy that is riddled with issues which the authors have bluntly refused to address and I can only wonder how and why it got to this stage.....this makes me feel that perhaps some people's opinion are more superior to others in the community....Then it is not a community anymore.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1544020239111"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1544020241061"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Aleruchi<o:p></o:p></p><div id="ymail_android_signature"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/mobile/?.src=Android" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android</a><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><blockquote style="margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 15pt; "><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 11:05 am, Andrew Alston<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(109, 0, 246); padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 15pt; margin-top: 7.5pt; "><div id="yiv1607621746"><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hi PDWG Appeal Committee.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I am seeking clarification the appeal process says that any decision of the PDWG co-chairs may be appealed and puts a time frame on launching that appeal.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I now need clarification the decision to put a policy into last call does the time from decision to put the policy into last call start from the moment of pronouncement in the meeting, or from the official announcement on the RPD mailing list. That is to say when is the decision considered taken and this goes to a very key issue about the validity of decisions taken on the floor of a PDP meeting so the answer to this question is urgent since if the time starts ticking from the moment the decision is taken then time is short to launch the appeal against the decision and a delay in answering the question by the PDWG Appeal committee cannot be an accepted reason to not accept a late appeal should this situation arise.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The policy actually says within 2 weeks from public knowledge of the decision does a pronouncement on the floor constitute public knowledge in a streamed meeting?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Secondly I wish the PDWG Appeal committee to comment on what happens to a last call process if the decision to last call is under appeal pending adjudication. I would assume that the last call process would be suspended and cannot proceed until the adjudication of the appeal has been completed, but I wish to have a formal clarification on this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">And with this email I am also formally announcing my intention to launch a formal appeal with relevant documentation against the decision to move this policy into last call and I also am formally reserving my right to appeal against the decision to move the policy past the last call stage should that become necessary irrespective of the appeal against the last call itself.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Andrew Alston<o:p></o:p></p><p class="yiv1607621746msonormal" style="margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">_______________________________________________<br>RPD mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd" target="_blank" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd</a><o:p></o:p></div></div></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>RPD mailing list<br><a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br>https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd</div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>