there is something general i am noting and and agree - that perhaps the AfriNIC 
meetings should have a secretariate that produces formal summaries of ALL the 
5day deliberations. However, I am note sure what the issue is with  the Public 
Policy Discussions since the website seem to capture the process fairly 
comprehensively @

http://www.afrinic.net/documents.htm

walu.  

--- On Thu, 12/10/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AfriNIC-rpd] Proposal for Policy Development Process in  the 
AfriNIC service region]
To: "AfriNIC Resource Policy Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 1:45 PM

At 22:05 09-12-2009, Graham Beneke wrote:
> Very good idea. Policy debates should probably be transcripted or at the very 
> least comprehensive minutes should be kept.

There is a cost in doing transcriptions.  If the community believes that it is 
important to have transcriptions of the policy meetings, I suggest that it 
provides some arguments for doing it so that the issue can be addressed through 
this proposal.

Publishing comprehensive minutes is part of documenting the discussions on a 
proposal so that the process is transparent.  It would also be helpful to the 
authors who are unable to attend the policy meeting.

There is a deadline in the proposal for the minutes.  It is about "this is what 
we will be doing".  The initial (unpublished) proposal had a longer deadline.

> Also very important. As the author of a recent proposal also I had difficulty 
> knowing how 'official' revisions could be published. The initial policy draft 
> gets put up on the website but the updates get discussed on the mailing list 
> and there isn't any process for updating the published version.

I have some difficulty figuring out which "publication" is considered as the 
official version.  Although this proposal provides for proposals to be 
submitted to the Policy Development Working Group Chair, it can be problematic 
as we cannot tell who is responsible for text then.  AfriNIC claims to have 
copyright on your proposal.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy


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