<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></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 May 24, 2022, at 06:48, PDWG Chair <<a href="mailto:dacostadarwin@gmail.com" class="">dacostadarwin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span id="docs-internal-guid-7ad47e05-7fff-deee-f063-e26bcb177f52" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear AFRINIC PDWG,</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The upcoming AFRINIC-35 Public Policy Meeting(PPM) happening in hybrid mode on 1-2 June 2022 refers. No new proposals were received as of 4 May 2022. The author of the policy proposals IPv4 Inter-RIR Resource Transfers (Comprehensive Scope) and Publication of Information has reached out to us and indicated that the proposals will neither be updated for the purpose of this PPM nor presented during the PPM. </span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The author of the proposal Abuse Contact Policy Update (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">AFPUB-2018-GEN-001-DRAFT07) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> has also submitted the same proposal again on 15 May 2022 as the version 7 which reached consensus but is currently under appeal expires on 17 May 2022.</span></div></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>This does not restart the clock. The CPM is clear on the matter:</div><div><br class=""></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div>(Section 3.4.1)</div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div>A draft policy expires after one calendar year unless it is approved by the AFRINIC Board of Directors as a policy. The timeout period is restarted when the draft policy is replaced by a more recent version of the proposal. A draft policy can be withdrawn by the author(s) by sending a notification to the Resource Policy Discussion mailing list.<br class=""></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>The draft expires after one year unless approved by the Board as policy. The timeout cannot be restarted unless a more recent version of the proposal is submitted. A fresh copy of the identical proposal is not a more recent version, it is an identical version.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>