<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=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 16, 2021, at 01:36 , JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" class="">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; 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;"><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hi Paul,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">I think you are assuming that the proposal will resolve all the organization problems, issues with the bylaws, Board, etc. and this is not the case.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">We should make clear that the PDP is a very special process, based in roght consensus and this is turn based in the rought consensus definition in the IETF. That’s a basic principle of the RIRs and not accepting that will mean we need to change the complete RIR system.</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Actually, ARIN abandoned rough consensus in favor of “supported by the community” several years ago, so you only need to change 80% of the RIR system at most.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Policy cannot fix all that is wrong with AFRINIC. It will require a significant overhaul of the entire governance structure starting with the bylaws, and including bylaws, RSA, and very likely will require other changes that would probably prevent this message from getting through because elucidating them would gore someone’s sacred ox.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>