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after 2 years of every accepted resource request, the justification of that request must be published. The resource member will be warned 3 months before the publication with a draft of the summary to be published.

after 2 years of every accepted resource request, a short summary of the justification of that request must be published. The decision of how to publish the information (e.g. link into whois, new web page, etc.), is left to the discretion of AFRINIC. The resource member will be warned 3 months before the publication with a draft of the summary to be published.

This simple proposal looks for the publication of information about resource request justifications after a community agreed period of time unless there is a valid demonstration of the need to extend the confidentiality period.

Note that the information to be published is not the already existing resource registration in whois as per the actual CPM. This proposal looks for publication of the overall resource request justification (justification of the need), which allows understanding of the justified need is sustained at the publication time or not.

The automation mentioned in the proposal cannot happen for the existing resources that have been issued to the AFRINIC Resource Members until now as the needs are not consolidated centrally in AFRINIC systems and have to be manually imported.

For ~5000 resources that have reached their 2-year anniversary date(issuance date is up to Nov 2019), staff will have to examine ~5000 records and make a summary Staff will therefore do more work than "process the possible responses of “non-disclosure” without requiring extra human resources" & additional human resources will be required, even if a phased approach is being suggested by the author.

It is apposite to state that all information exchanged between AFRINIC and an applicant (resource member) either prior or during the tenure of the RSA fall under the regime of confidentiality at common law such that AFRINIC cannot, without the express consent of the concerned resource member, disclose this information to third parties.

It is apposite to state that all information exchanged between AFRINIC and an applicant (resource member) either prior or during the tenure of the RSA fall under the regime of confidentiality at common law such that AFRINIC cannot, without the express consent of the concerned resource member or pursuant to a Judge's Order, disclose this information to third parties.