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<p>Please find below my view of this just published ToR.</p>
<p>- I may be wrong but this version of the ToR doesn't seem to have
circulated in PDWG prior to its approval by Board Resolution.
Although this is not mandatory is it certainly a bad thing such is
the importance and affect it has on us all from community and how
the PDWG works.<br>
</p>
<p>- In 1, b) why one of the seats has been reserved only to Chair
or Vice-Chair of the Board ? In which way other members of the
Board are different from the Board Chair or Vice-Chair? Are they
less fitted to serve in the AC ?<br>
I think it may be a good thing to have 1 Board representative in
the AC, but it doesn't need to be that restricted to only Chair or
Vice-Chair. This is strange at minimal to say.<br>
</p>
<p>- Why there has been no seat at all for Community members,
specially to consider ex Co-chairs which certainly may have a fair
amount of experience to serve in the AC ?<br>
In this ToR all 3 members of AC have a direct or indirect relation
to membership elected members and not even space for choosing a
experienced person from the Community if that person is not
currently an elected member of Board, ASO-AC or Governance
Committee.<br>
</p>
<p>- I didn't understand very well the rational to have someone from
ASO-AC as a member of the Appeal Committee. It doesn't specify if
from the entire ASO-AC or only from the AfriNic ASO-AC selected
members. If the last case there is one of the three that is
already appointed by the Board. Would it be the case that person
also be considered as well along of the person already appointed
from the Board, if not then there would be only 2 possible names
for the seat which is quiet restrict.<br>
</p>
<p>- In the line of the previous point reducing the number of AC
seats from 5 to 3 in the current times with several appeals to be
analyzed increases the changes the AC can have difficulties to
deliver its job with impartiality and be less susceptible to
tentative of external pressure.</p>
<p>- It is quiet obvious but in the try to simply the ToR may be
good to keep making clear enough that if a member of the appeal
committee is author or co-author of the a proposal which becomes
subject to appeal, this member of the AC must recuse himself from
the deliberations.</p>
<p>- I think the last point (3) was a good one and make it clearer
in order to avoid doubt about the duty and prerogatives of the
Appeal Committee and that in no way substitutes the PDWG or its
Co-Chairs in the consensus process.</p>
<p>There I urge the Board of Directors of AfriNic to review this ToR
before selecting the new AC members, take in consideration the
mentioned points above and publish a revised version of the ToR
with improvements that can give more flexibility in composing the
AC and open to more possibilities of choosing experienced people
to serve.<br>
</p>
<p>Regards<br>
Fernando Frediani<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/07/2021 12:46, AFRINIC Policy
Liaison wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:
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id="docs-internal-guid-24fd2493-7fff-884b-3673-a52e5d8789f4"> <br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:
justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;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;">(</span><a
href="https://afrinic.net/policy/appeal-committee"
style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://afrinic.net/policy/appeal-committee</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;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;"> ) as per the Board Resolution 202107.622</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="https://www.afrinic.net/board/meeting/2021#r622"
style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://www.afrinic.net/board/meeting/2021#r622</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">).</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:
justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;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 AFRINIC Policy Development Appeal Committee, or the Appeal Committee, is a committee appointed by the AFRINIC Board, intended to adjudicate appeals in terms of the Conflict Resolution section of the AFRINIC Policy Development Process (PDP). Any such appeal will involve a disagreement regarding the actions taken by the Chair(s) of the Policy Development Working Group (PDWG).</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:
justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;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 AFRINIC Board at its meeting held on </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">08 July 2021</span><span style="font-size:12pt;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;"> resolved to revoke the current Terms of Reference for the Appeal Committee and replace them with new Terms of Reference.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:
justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;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;">As a consequence of the above, the Appeal Committee that was reconstituted by the Board on </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">14 April 2021</span><span style="font-size:12pt;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;"> was dissolved. </span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:
justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;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 new version makes the required provision for</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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;">Section 3.5(1) of AFRINIC’s Consolidated Policy Manual.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:
justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;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;">We invite you all to take note</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;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;">of its scope with regards to the composition, term and duty of the committee.</span></p>
<br>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:
justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;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 reconstitution of the Appeal Committee is currently ongoing so that the current appeals can be assessed. </span></p>
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