[coc-tf] Fwd: [Community-Discuss] Call for Comments on the AFRINIC Mailing Lists Terms of Use

Dear TF,

Earlier today, AFRINIC shared the message below about updating the
terms of use for its mailing lists. Interestingly, the announcement
states that "AFRINIC has been working on a plan of actions that will
allow for verification and authentication of users of its mailing
lists." That sentence could have several meanings but it sounds like
quite a challenge. This will be an interesting consultation to
observe.

Kind regards,

Leo

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From: AFRINIC Communication <comms at afrinic.net>
Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 3:20 AM
Subject: [Community-Discuss] Call for Comments on the AFRINIC Mailing
Lists Terms of Use
To: <community-discuss at afrinic.net>


Dear colleagues,

AFRINIC acts as the secretariat and facilitator to support community
discussions and the policy development process. To deliver on this
mandate, AFRINIC provides a number of inclusive, transparent and open
platforms that include public meetings and mailing lists.

Following complaints received from several community members on the
virulence of exchanges on AFRINIC mailing lists and the growing number
of one-off posts from incognito aliases that the community dubbed as
“Internet trolls”, we published a blog in September 2020 on the Code
of Conduct. https://afrinic.net/20200903-code-of-conduct

Unfortunately, that did not act as a deterrent and consequently, the
subscription of one subscriber to our Community mailing list was
revoked following previous warning issued to the latter.

(https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2020-October/003736.html)

We are also awaiting the feedback from the Governance Committee
pertaining to two requests made by the AFRINIC CEO in August 2020:

- Violation of Code of Conduct on Community mailing list
[https://afrinic.net/govcom/request#GC2020.04]

-  Code of Conduct Review [https://afrinic.net/govcom/request#GC2020.05].

In the meantime, however, AFRINIC has been working on a plan of
actions that will allow for verification and authentication of users
of its mailing lists in our effort to safeguard the community from
being subject to inappropriate behaviours. As a first step, we have
developed a new set of AFRINIC Mailing Lists Terms of Use that will
govern one’s subscription to AFRINIC mailing lists.

https://afrinic.net/20210202-afrinic-mailinglists-terms-of-use

In this respect, we hereby invite you to provide us with your valuable
feedback on the aforesaid AFRINIC Mailing Lists Terms of Use in the
comments section of the page
(https://afrinic.net/20210202-afrinic-mailinglists-terms-of-use).

We look forward to receiving your feedback by 28 February 2021.

AFRINIC shall consider your input and thereafter, take such actions as
it may deem appropriate.

Ashil Oogarah
On behalf of the AFRINIC Communications and PR Team
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