<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Community, <br>You would recall that the Resource Transfer Policy was recalled some few weeks ago to allow for further discussion on the proposal within the Community. Having allowed and exhausted the discussions and comments from the Community, we are now satisfied that we have given more than enough time for this discussion. Here are our observations on the proposal in question. <br>1. The authors have been very flexible in making changes to the proposal. Majority of the suggestions made to improve the proposal without contradicting some other aspects of the proposal were agreed to by the authors in arriving at the latest version. </div><div>2. A large number of community members supports this proposal. We carefully went through all comments hence the reason we took longer than a week extension as earlier suggested by the co-chairs.<br>3. Most (no all) of those who are opposed to this proposal are authors to a competing proposal or are in support of a competing proposal. We see nothing wrong in this, but, we Co-Chairs had to sieve observations and critically look beyond who is making the observation/comment but the substance of the comment. However, we noticed a partner of it is either my proposal or no other proposal. Events in the most powerful country of the world in the last few days have also helped us to understand better that some people would make noise and allegations without any proof and that should not be enough reason to truncate a well guided and fair process. <br>4. Most of the comments does not deal with the nitty-gritty of the proposal; rather, they were procedural. Co-chairs were accused of not following the procedure without any proof to back this up. We were asked to reverse our decision and allowed for more discussion on the proposal. We did this, and the same person who asked us to do this was one of the first people to accuse of taking another wrong and unprecedented decision. We asked this same person to explain who we have violated the CPM, but we had no response from him, but he responds to other issues. It should be on record that this is not the first time co-chairs have had enough reason to change their decisions and we are sure this would not be the last.<br>5. <b>We believe that the proposal AFPUB-2019-V4-003-DRAFT04 (Resource Transfer Policy) has successfully reached Consensus and we shall be forwarding same to the AFRINIC board for ratification. </b><br>6. However, just like the latest impact analysis the proposal on Board prerogative on the PDP which has also reached Consensus is suggesting (which we think is the most reasonable way forward) we shall also want to suggest that the only outstanding issue raised on AFPUB-2019-V4-003-DRAFT04 (Resource Transfer Policy) is the issue related to the status of legacy holders. <br>7. Our justification for arriving at Consensus without exhausting this issue was based on the fact that we Co-chairs could not agree on which of the two options (Legacy remaining legacy and otherwise) is more acceptable to the Community. Some do favour the option of Legacy holders remaining legacy while others would like things to be the other way round. It is difficult for us to make a call on this issue because it depends on one's perspective and we have seen how heated any debate on legacy resources can be from some recent exchange on one of the other AFRINIC mailing lists. Therefore we believe that the best option is to have this discussion separate while avoiding throwing away the baby with the bathwater on this proposal. The authors also informed the Co-chairs that they do not mind whichever way the Community chooses. Therefore we believe this should not determine the faith of this proposal. We strongly believe that the reason why we have so many unresolved proposals is due to that fact that we often throw away the baby with the bathwater.</div><div>8. We have also noticed that there seems to be some confusion as to what changes were made during the last call. We would like to clear the air on this, the changes that we asked the authors to make in <a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2020/011372.html">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2020/011372.html </a>were made before the policy went into the last call. Our decision on the last call on this proposal was subjected to those changes. <br>9 Our decision is also based on the fact that we asked for comments and even last comments, and there were only a few responses or even none.<br>10. On the issue of reciprocity of the proposal, we have taken a look at the proposal and that of the other RIRs, and we believe that this proposal is reciprocal. Should it not be reciprocal, an amendment can be proposed in future. <br>11. We truly understand that some people would disagree with us, but it is only fair that issues and actions are based on facts. <br>Finally, we think it is crucial that we explain how we arrived at our decisions to the Community in the spirit of openness and fairness. <br><br></div><div>Thanks <br>Co-Chair <br>PDWG<br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(29,34,40);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="1" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="monospace"><br><br></font><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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