[Community-Discuss] AoB of the Minutes of the Board Meeting - May 11, 2016

Fri Aug 5 10:10:06 UTC 2016

Mr. Chair,

Thank you for your response.

Serekunda 2012 is a well-known case and should have guided the Board in proposing the TOR to the NomCom 2016 if the board really see a conflict or issue.

I agree that the “Board may instruct NomCom to present a report to the membership or the community”.  But as the target and beneficiary of NomCom activity, it would be helpful and perhaps even necessary for the community to be involved in developing the TOR and guidelines.  This way, the report is even more meaningful when presented and makes the NomCom stronger and less prone to the issues we have observed. 

Thank you,

Marcus

To: community-discuss at afrinic.net
From: sfolayan at gmail.com
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 19:18:24 +0100
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AoB of the Minutes of the Board Meeting - May 11, 2016

        Dear Marcus,Noah and members of the community,

        I apologize that the response is coming late, I have been off email for a couple of days. Please see the response to the issues raised:

        The AoB of the “Minutes of the Board Meeting Held on Thursday 11 May 2016 AT 15:27 UTC” on “Requirement to resign from other positions when accepting a nomination to the Board” is raising two questions that is raising eyebrows in the community and need to be addressed.

        Not surprising. 

        Why this situation of conflict, well known to the Board, was not included in the TOR on which the NomCom2016 run the elections of Botswana?

        There is no reasonable way to answer a question like “Why did the Board not do a better job of predicting the future?” The Elections TOR was approved before the call for nominations was made.

        Since the board is directing the NomCom2016 to include this situation of conflict in their report to the community, could you please tell us whether NomCom2016 is now accountable to the community or not.

        NomCom is appointed by the Board, and reports to the Board in terms of the Bylaws section 9.2.  The Board may instruct NomCom to present a report to the membership or the community. This is the spirit with which the Board discussed in  http://afrinic.net/en/about/bod/meeting/2016/1809-minutes-20161105 Where it decided that the NomCom2016 should include that situation in their report to the community. 

        Other matters that may be of interest to the community include:

        Is it OK for somebody to be a Director and also to hold a position in another committee or working group?  Certainly not for a Director to also be a PDWG Co-Chair. 

        If not, then when should they resign from other positions?  On being nominated, or on the candidate slate being announced, or on being elected?  

Who should decide the rules? Most reasonable to allow the Board to do this, in consultation with the Community.

        Where should the rules be written?  The Board thinks that the election guidelines would be a good place for most of the rules, but perhaps some of the rules are important enough to appear in the Bylaws.

        Comments are welcome on this.

        Thanks and Regards …

        Sunday Folayan

        Chair, AFRINIC Board

    On 01/08/2016 08:19, Noah wrote:

              On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 5:19 PM,
                Marcus K. G. Adomey <madomey at hotmail.com>
                wrote:

                      Dear AfriNIC Board Chair,

                      The AoB of the “Minutes of
                        the Board Meeting Held on
                        Thursday 11 May 2016 AT 15:27 UTC” on
                        “Requirement to resign from other
                        positions when accepting a nomination to the
                        Board” is raising two questions
                        that is raising eye browse in the community and
                        need to be addressed.

                      Why this situation of
                        conflict, well known to the Board, was
                        not included in the TOR on which the NomCom2016
                        run the elections of Botswana?

                      Since the board is directing
                        the NomCom2016 to include this
                        situation of conflict in their report to the
                        community, could you please tell
                        us whether NomCom2016 is now accountable to the
                        community or not.

                +1  Marcus

                  And did those to whom this was addressed get this
                  email.

                      Thank you

              -- 

                  ./noah

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