<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 17 Feb 2020, 02:18 Owen DeLong, <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">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"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 14, 2020, at 22:35 , Badru Ntege <<a href="mailto:badru.ntege@nftconsult.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">badru.ntege@nftconsult.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div>
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<div style="direction:ltr">Am i reading that participants will be rewarded due to the amount of time they public spend at the mic ?? </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>No. Amount of time is only relevant in attendance at the sessions. However, we also don’t want to see purely passive sitting through sessions, but actual active engagement in them.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>
<div style="direction:ltr">Just asking what might outrightly be seen as a silly question but looks like “open mic minutes for sell”</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I realize you and some others wish to take the most cynical possible view. Please note that I said the comments must be relevant.</div><div><br></div><div>We are attempting to encourage legitimate active participation.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>
<div style="direction:ltr">As much as we appreciate the above the line opticals of helping the community we must always be cognizant of the bellow the line motives. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>While I cannot speak for everyone involved in this process, I can assure you that I have no below-the-line motivation. My motivation in this process is to</div><div>encourage additional active participation. It is my belief that the best policies will evolve from the most engaged community.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>
<div style="direction:ltr">Pls note I’m reading from the response. And not insinuating any motives but as they say If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Please just say what you mean.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">Owen,</font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">Your continous support to these controversies amuses me a lot.</font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">You are rewarding people for time spent at the mic to create an engaged community for a better PDP? </font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">As you know, all the current active policies were discussed and ratified by this community over the past 20 years and Larus Foundation was never there when various proposals were drafted and deliberated, past volunteers co-chaired the PPM and managed working groups on this list and over the years through rough consensus, they got all the active policies today ratified.</font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif"><br></font></div><div dir="auto"><font face="sans-serif">I am disgusted by this continued undermining of AfriNIC. </font></div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif"><br></div></div></div>