<div dir="auto"><div><div dir="auto">It is very normal and logical for a network to have the abuse contact in their WHOIS registration as part of the AFRINIC's registration service, but as in ICP-2, it is out of the scope of an RIR to intervene in the network’s operations, which is exactly what this proposal will result in.</div><div dir="auto">Abuse handling is part of a network’s operations, thus AFRINIC does not have the mandate to dictate to its members how to handle abuse and what to act on.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div>Regards</div><div dir="auto">Oluwabunmi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, 3:22 PM PDWG Chair <<a href="mailto:vincent@ngundi.me.ke">vincent@ngundi.me.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear AFRINIC PDWG,<br>
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As per our announcement on 8 June 2021[1], the Last Call period of the <br>
proposal Abuse Contact Policy Update AFPUB-2018-GEN-001-DRAFT07 would <br>
have ended on 19th June 2021 at 2359UTC but an appeal was lodged on 16 <br>
June 2021, four (4) days before the close of the Last Call period. Now <br>
that the Appeal Committee has published its report, we wish to announce <br>
that the Last Call period for the proposal Abuse Contact Policy Update <br>
AFPUB-2018-GEN-001-DRAFT07 has been extended by four (4) days, and <br>
therefore closes on 09th January 2022 at 23:59 UTC.<br>
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Thank you for your continued participation in this process.<br>
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Kind Regards<br>
Vincent Ngundi and Darwin Da Costa<br>
AFRINIC PDWG Chairs<br>
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