<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=""><div class=""><div class="">Dear AfriNIC PDWG, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First, we would like to thank the community for entrusting us with this core role and responsibility. Indeed, we express our commitment to ensuring adherence to the CPM and the PDP, and to bringing back decorum in the deliberations of the PDWG.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As you may have noticed from a previous email, we are currently analyzing the discussions on the current 12 DPPs. This includes preparing a report on the two (2) DPPs that were said to have achieved rough consensus, but which are currently under appeal.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While the CPM will serve as the core guide in our work and the community’s deliberations, we remind the community to adhere to the AfriNIC Code of Conduct (<a href="https://v2.afrinic.net/en/community/code-of-conduct" class="">https://v2.afrinic.net/en/community/code-of-conduct</a>). This will ensure that deliberations remain professional, respectful and appropriate at all times.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As the community is aware, PDWG decisions are consensus-driven, with the intention being to ensure that any objections and/or concerns raised during policy discussions are either addressed or resolved adequately. As Co-Chairs, we subscribe to RFC 7282 (<a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282" class="">https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282</a>) which provides a very good guide for building and determining rough consensus in environments similar to ours. We therefore encourage the community to read the document.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We expect to have our initial analysis concluded in the first week of May 2021 after which we will engage the community accordingly. This will also enable us to progress with the preparations for our next PPM which is scheduled for June 2021.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the meantime, we acknowledge that an appeal has been submitted against the confirmation of consensus on our selection as Co-Chairs. The outcome of the appeal and deliberations thereafter which inform our work going forward.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We look forward to a better AfriNIC for all of us.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards,</div><div class="">AfriNIC PDWG Co-Chairs.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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