Exactly Mike. Thanks.

> On 3 Oct 2017, at 10:02, Mike Silber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Lu
> 
> I think you are misinterpreting the comment made.
> 
> I think both Omo and Adewole were supporting the principle you expressed 
> (resource management is better addressed in policy than in a legal 
> agreement). Apologies to both if I am misrepresenting you.
> 
> The concern being raised is that absent specific policy on those issues we 
> cannot remove those clauses from the RSA, lest we create a lacunae that could 
> cause problems.
> 
> The suggestion (as I view it) as that we propose and finalise policy to 
> replace the items in the RSA and once the policy has been ratified, we agree 
> a mechanism to remove that issue from the RSA.
> 
> I did not see any ad hominem attack and I don’t think any was intended.
> 
> Mike
> 
>> On 3 Oct 2017, at 10:27, Lu Heng <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 3 October 2017 at 15:53, Omo Oaiya <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 3 Oct 2017, at 06:59, Lu Heng <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Those ip addresses management clause inside RSA was written by lawyers, not 
>>> the community. According to bottom up process, only policy can dictate how 
>>> we use IP addresses.
>>> 
>> 
>>  It is AfriNIC that facilitates this bottom up process. It is also it 
>> responsibility to coordinate the management of INR.   Some might say this is 
>> its primary responsibility.
>> 
>> Until a policy gets developed by the community, the RSA is the only 
>> mechanism available for fufilling this management mandate.   Your interest 
>> in removing these clauses from the RSA is probably better served by 
>> proposing policy that makes them redundant as Dewole suggests.
>> 
>> -Omo
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> "My interest" is a weird misinterpretation and completely not true(why must 
>> it get personal every time, omo? ) I barely point out the clause that 
>> contains IP address management material(and I might have missed some).
>> 
>> Those words are written by lawyers to manage IP addresses - this shouldn't 
>> happen in the very first place, because  in the bottom up process, only 
>> community-developed policies are able to manage the IP address, which is the 
>> golden rule of bottom up process. Operators get to decide how they want to 
>> use and manager the very resource they are using instead of lawyers.
>> 
>> By your logic, if there is a missing item in the policy, we should simply 
>> ask lawyers to add it to the RSA until community makes a redundant policy - 
>> but this is not how PDP works. PDP is not served as a way to replicate what 
>> lawyers wrote. Rather, if you think there is a missing item in the policy, 
>> you will have to make a policy proposal, and see if community agrees.
>> 
>> RSA should in no way serve as a complementary to the policy, rather, they 
>> are two independent documents that serve for entirely different purposes. 
>> While RSA allows AFRINIC to establish a legal relationship with its members 
>> so AFRINIC can be funded, policies are specifically designed to manage 
>> internet resources.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> --
>> Kind regards.
>> Lu
>> 
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