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<p dir="auto">+1 on the co-locating with AfriCom/AfriTech - especially as I’m living in Cape Town :)</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 16 Sep 2026, at 8:30, Ben Roberts - AfriNIC via RPD wrote:</p>
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+1 Andrew. The nature of these PPM events is that it is necessary to hold them alongside other African events in order to make it worth the trip for what is actually a short meeting. This year we held one PPM alongside the AIS (as has been traditional) and now experimenting with co-locating it alongside AfricaCom which is the biggest African industry event of the year. I would rather we see how the experiment works before introducing policies to tie us in knots by settling to not clash with global meetings that very few people from Africa take part in.
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<div>I oppose this policy. While I believe that AfriNIC should endeavor to ensure that meetings do not clash, the reality is that this is sometimes unavoidable. Furthermore, I stand to be corrected, but I am unsure if other organisations have such a policy. Embedding this in our policy manual effectively relegates AfriNIC to second-class status compared to other global organisations that do not have similar policies prohibiting scheduling conflicts with AfriNIC.</div>
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<div>Furthermore, there may be times when an emergency policy meeting needs to be called to address an urgent issue, and this clause could pose a serious problem in that scenario.</div>
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<div>To repeat my stance above, I do not doubt the policy's intent, and while clashes should obviously be avoided, but I do not believe that this should be made a rule that restricts the PDP to the scheduling whims of other organisations.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 6:49 PM Hytham El-Nakhal <<a href="mailto:hytham@tra.gov.eg">hytham@tra.gov.eg</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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