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        style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">AFRINIC staff usually provide impact assessments of draft policy proposals under discussion before they are presented at a Public Policy Meeting. The impact assessment is published on the website next to the proposal. Based on the inputs from authors mostly during the PPM discussions, who at times respond to the elements raised in the impact assessment, the latter will be revised & updated on the website.</span></p>
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        style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The outcome of the AFRINIC-32 PPM are two proposals that reached rough consensus , subject to conditions as stipulated by the PDP co-chairs . As a result, AFRINIC received the following proposals after the PPM was concluded i.e. after 17 September 2020 :-</span></p>
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        style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">After assessing the proposals that were received, AFRINIC has taken the decision to formally conduct and publish the impact assessments of these updated proposals and any new versions that may be received on the two policy proposals - notably Board Prerogatives on the PDP and Resource Transfer Policy . For any inter-RIR transfer policies, the reciprocity with other RIRs will also be updated on the impact assessment so that they are publicly available to the community.</span></p>
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