<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;" class="">Template for Submitting Policy Proposals</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">------------------------[Proposal Header]-----------------------</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">Unique identifier (assigned by AfriNIC):<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Draft Policy Name: Amend PDP to allow Abandonment of Proposals<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Author(s)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">(a) Owen DeLong | <a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a> | DeLong Consulting<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Draft Policy Version 00.05<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Submission Date 23 December, 2019<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Related Policies (where applicable) PDP (CPM section 3)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Obsoletes: None<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Amends: Section 3.4.2 of the CPM (PDP)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">------------------------[Proposal Header]-----------------------</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[1] Summary of the Problem Being Addressed by this Policy Proposal</p><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The current PDP has an attack surface which allows authors to abuse the process and waste</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>community time on a proposal which is not supported by the community by making minor</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>amendments to the proposal each year. Currently, co-chairs have no authority to declare</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>that a proposal should be abandoned due to lack of support by the community.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[2] Summary of How this Proposal Addresses the Problem</p><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This proposal provides a limited power for co-chairs to determine that a proposed policy is</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>unlikely to reach consensus in the community and abandon the proposal rather than allowing</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>it to continue to distract the community from feasible proposals.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class="">+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Requires at least two public policy meetings prior to initiating abandonment process</div><div class="">+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Provides time for objections to abandonment through a last call process</div><div class="">+<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Abandonment can be appealed through the same process described in section 3.5</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[3] Proposal (Please use sub-numbering so as to make it easy to reference in discussions)</p><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Section 3.4.2 is amended as follows (Green is existing text, Red strikethrough is deleted existing text, Blue underline is new text):</div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><font color="#00fa00" class="">3.4.2 Public Policy Meeting<br class="">The draft policy is placed on the agenda of an open public policy meeting. The agenda of the meeting shall be announced on the Resource Policy Discussion mailing list at least two weeks prior to the meeting. No change can be made to a draft policy within one week of the meeting. This is so that a stable version of the draft policy can be considered at the meeting. The Chair(s) determine(s) whether rough consensus has been achieved during the Public Policy Meeting.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#0432ff" class=""><u class="">After a proposal has been to at least two public policy meetings without achieving consensus, if it appears that there continue to be substantive objections to the proposal which are incompatible with authors intention (e.g. the community objects to the entire concept of the proposal or to some aspect of authors fundamental intent in the proposal) and that the proposal is unlikely to ever achieve consensus regardless of authors amendments, co-chairs may make such a finding and send the proposal to a “last call prior to abandonment”. Said last call to be at least 30 days on the RPD list. At the end of that last call period, co-chairs may abandon the proposal and remove it from consideration. Co-chairs must publish their decision to RPD including an explanation of the finding and reasons for abandoning the proposal. An abandon proposal is disposed of in a manner identical to an expired proposal per section 3.4.1.</u></font><br class=""><font color="#00fa00" class="">The Chair(s) shall publish the minutes of proceedings of the Public Policy Meeting not later than three weeks after the meeting.</font><br class=""></div></blockquote><br class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">[4] Revision History (for all but the very first draft)</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">4.1 Version 00.05<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Change: .......................... Initial Version<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">Reason for Change:……….Initial Version</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; caret-color: rgb(117, 117, 117); color: rgb(117, 117, 117); font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">5.0 References</p><div class="">RPD discussions of this issue</div><div class="">RPD discussions surrounding the “Resource Review Policy Proposal”</div><div class="">Existence of this ability in the PDP in every other RIR</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>