> On Nov 10, 2016, at 12:54 AM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 9, 2016, at 03:14 , ALAIN AINA <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 9, 2016, at 3:01 PM, Alan Barrett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 9 Nov 2016, at 16:16, ALAIN AINA <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hmmm. Are we moving the PDPWG powers in board hands?  I do not understand 
>>>> the concept of deadlock in our bottom-up PDP ruled by "Rough Consensus” 
>>>> and not “Full Consensus".  I would expect to see all times, effort made by 
>>>> all parties(including board) to reach rough consensus on  
>>>> adoption/rejection… and not board making decisions. Is this not a 
>>>> discussion for the  PDPWG ?
>>> 
>>> The Bylaws have always given the Board the power to make policy without 
>>> going throgh the PDWG process.  The Board has never exercised that power in 
>>> the past, but the ability is there in the Bylaws in case a good reason 
>>> appears in the future.  We are talking about reducing that power so that 
>>> the Board cannot abuse it.
>> 
>> Good Alan, but the way it was presented  does not sound same as your last 
>> text. 
>> But It was also proposed to just remove board adopting policy from bylaws 
>> and only depend on the PDP. May be an updated version of the PDP ? 
> 
> I’m having trouble parsing this, but any of the parsings I came up with seem 
> to indicate that you are reading a different list than I am reading because 
> that is not at all what I have seen proposed here.

https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2016-June/000343.html 
<https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2016-June/000343.html> 
response to point 12

One should admit  that the format of the discussions on this important  
accountability improvement  does not make it easy to follow and digest, but 
other alternatives suggested were not accepted.


Thanks

—Alain



> 
> Owen

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