<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, 14:09 Madhvi Gokool, <<a href="mailto:madhvi@afrinic.net">madhvi@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Jordi /PDWG<br>
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<div>On 03/03/2021 1:52 PM, JORDI PALET
MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss wrote:<br>
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<pre>Hi all,
Today, during the APNIC51 meeting, in the Global Reports session (<a href="https://2021.apricot.net/program/schedule-conference/#/day/10/apnic-global-reports" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://2021.apricot.net/program/schedule-conference/#/day/10/apnic-global-reports</a>), as usual, there was a presentation from every RIR, including AFRINIC.
In this presentation from AFRINIC, there have been two "imprecisions". I prefer to use this wording instead of something stronger, because to me those are very severe issues. I've asked in the Q&A to get this publicly clarified and it was not done.
AFRINIC MUST publicly acknowledge the mistakes.
1) It was explained that the AFRINIC PDWG co-chairs resigned. You can see it at the end of the presentation.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODvgxbMErs#t=35m50s" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODvgxbMErs#t=35m50s</a></pre>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline!important;float:none">The AFRINIC
staff corrected the initial statement made in his presentation
and mentioned that the Co-chairs were recalled in the Q&A
feature. </span><br>
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2) It has been said that one of the policy proposals that reached consensus hasn't been sent to the Board for ratification, which is not true, as discussed in the RPD mailing list. The co-chairs did send the policy to the Board, but the Board decided to ignore it, because it looks like they want the chairs to follow a format that has never been enforced before and it has not been approved by the community, neither the PDP.
See slide 6 at <a href="https://2021.apricot.net/assets/files/APSr481/afrinic-update-apnic51.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://2021.apricot.net/assets/files/APSr481/afrinic-update-apnic51.pdf</a></pre>
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<p>i) The PDWG is under the impression from a previous
correspondence of the now ex-co chair AbdulKarim that the
co-chairs had already sent the ratification reports to the Board.<br>
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<p>ii) There were requests on the rpd mailing list to the outgoing
co-chairs to share the mails that they have sent to the Board with
the PDWG and there were no responses. <br>
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<p>iii) The Board Chair informed the community on 14 Feb 2021 that
the report for ratification was not received. <br>
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<p><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2021/012363.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2021/012363.html</a><br>
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<p>iv) It is incorrect to mention that the Board wanted the chairs
to follow a specific format. This is a misinterpretation of the
information provided by the Policy Liaison to the mailing list in
regard to the report template. <a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2021/012374.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">
https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2021/012374.html</a></p></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I disagree with Jordi's sentiments as they don't paint the true picture of what WG discussions on thematter regarding recalled co-chairs comms to the board. In fact members of WG have never seen such email either.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">FWIW, I fully agree with Madhvi sentiments which are correct and clear picture of WG understanding of the same.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Noah</div></div>