Clearly there is an important issue with using the word "comunity" in the PDP. I would like to recommend that in any future revisions of the PDP inlcuding the current attempts to re-develop the PDP, the word "community" should be qualified at every instance so that it is clear what is being refered to.
Regards, Paulos ====================== Dr Paulos B Nyirenda NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD http://www.registrar.mw On 6 Apr 2010 at 10:41, [email protected] wrote: > At 02:09 06-04-10, Dr Paulos Nyirenda wrote: > >I would like to mention that the use of the word "community" in the > >AfriNic PDP caused > >intensive debate in one or two meetings of the current PDP-MG and > >mention was made of > >refering this back to the "community" to resolve. > > > >In some cases the current PDP uses the wider Internet community as > >"anyone on the > >Internet" as described below but in others it seems to refer to the > >"African Internet > >community". > > The current PDP document uses the word "community". There was a > proposal last year that was written by someone who does not reside in > Africa. People from outside Africa have taken part in discussions > about proposals. > > "anyone on the Internet" might be "Internet Community". > > There might be some differences between "African Internet community" > and "AfriNIC community". > > Both the existing PDP document and the proposal use wider Internet > community for policy proposals and discussions. > > "AfriNIC community" is currently used for the PDP-MG selection. The > proposal uses "chosen by the community during the meeting. That is > similar to "AfriNIC community". > > >Some clarification on this as well would help the PDP-MG. > > Should "community" be: > > 1. people from Africa only? > > 2. people from the "African Internet community"? > > 3. people affected by AfriNIC (the company) policies? > > 4. people involved in Internet operations (ISP, etc.) only? > > 5. "anyone on the Internet"? > > If you choose items 1 and 2, proposals can only be written and > discussed by people within Africa. Items 3 and 4 involves clarifying > how to determine which people are part of the community. Item 5 > follows the openness principle. > > Regards, > S. Moonesamy _______________________________________________ rpd mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rpd
