Status of Community Discuss mailing list

[Kishna Dhondee]

Dear Ish,

In regard to your email below, kindly be informed as follows:

1. By email dated 24 June 2022, AFRINIC's ex-CEO informed the Community 
with respect to a 'Temporary emergency moderation'. The said email is 
herewith attached for ease of reference.

2. By email dated 27 June 2022, AFRINIC's Communication informed the 
Community, /inter-alia/, what triggered the moderation of the Community 
list as well as the modality of the said moderation. That email is also 
herewith attached for ease of reference.

3. We are aware that, since then, several requests have been made by 
Community members for the lifting of the aforesaid moderation. However, 
as you may also be aware as a matter of good governance, no staff has 
the authority to override a decision previously taken by an executive - 
be it a CEO or ex-CEO. Consequently, in the absence of both a quorate 
board and a CEO, it is regrettable that the /status-quo /is being 
maintained.

4. In regard to the second part of your question, the established 
protocol was that moderation would be of two-folds i.e; a legal vetting 
followed by another vetting by a representative of the Governance 
Committee (GovCom).

5. Unfortunately, the GovCom has also been dissolved on 31 December 2022 
and is yet to be reconstituted, which consequently impacts the whole of 
the aforesaid moderation process.

6. Prior to the dissolution of the GovCom on 31 December 2022, the 
members thereof did consider the requests emanated from the Community 
/viz /the lifting of the aforesaid moderation. However, you will 
appreciate that I cannot disclose the deliberations and/or 
recommendations of the GovCom's proceedings. Accordingly, point #3 above 
is repeated.

7. In view of the above and pending AFRINIC having a quorate board, all 
emails sent to the Community list are accessible and being archived at: 
https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss-unmoderated/

We hope to see AFRINIC back in full swing soon.

Regards,

Kishna

On 20/02/2023 01:42, Ish Sookun wrote:
> Dear Kishna,
>
> Grateful if you could tell me whether the AFRINIC Community Discuss
> mailing list is still being moderated and if so, by whom?
>
> Regards,
>
-- 
Kishna DHONDEE

Legal Officer, AFRINIC
11th Floor, Standard Chartered Tower
19 Cybercity, Ebene,
Mauritius.


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