[Community-Discuss] [rpd] Accountability assessment

[Timothy Ola Akinfenwa]

+1 Alain. God bless you sir!

Timothy
On 7 Jul 2016 10:29 p.m., "ALAIN AINA" <aalain at trstech.net> wrote:

> Hello SM
>
>  I beg. Lets stop this discussion about to whom AFRINIC belong to, playing
> with “members" and "non members", invoking RSA and AFRINIC Ltd, etc….
> We have come a long way to this community driven organisation which role
> is to serve the AFRICAN Internet  community by distributing numbers
> ressources and beyond.  Like other RIRs, the AfriNIC organisational
> structure has been set to encourage a bottom-up self governance management
> model in which community in general, members, the Board of Directors
> elected by these members have a  role and a say.
>
> I would invite all of us to read :
>
> - The 1997  AFRINIC proposal
> https://www.isoc.org/inet97/ans97/afrinic.htm
>
> - The IANA report on AFRNIC accreditation
> https://www.iana.org/reports/2005/afrinic-report-08apr2005.html
>
> - AFRINIC vision, mission, cores values and success factors
> http://www.afrinic.net/en/about/origins
>
> I  would also suggest that we plan a session on AFRINIC History during
> AFRINC-25  like we had AF* history  at AIS2016
>
> Hope this helps
>
> —Alain
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Jul 7, 2016, at 3:55 PM, sm+afrinic at elandsys.com wrote:
> >
> > Hi Noah, Badru,
> > At 09:22 06-07-2016, Noah wrote:
> >> Who elects the directors, do they elect themselves?
> >
> > The directors of Afrinic Ltd are elected by the members of Afrinic Ltd.
> >
> >> Whose interests do they serve?
> >
> > One of the powers of the directors of the company is to "determine the
> guidelines for the allocation of address space to members in line with the
> member driven Policy Development Process".
> >
> >> What where they before they became directors?
> >
> > The directors were members of the company.
> >
> >> Are they now so special now all over sudden and cant consult the same
> community "resource members + non" who elected them? [1]
> >
> > The "non" (in the above) does not elect the directors.  Section 6(d) of
> the RSA states that the members of Afrinic Ltd will follow the policies
> adopted by this group and follow global policies.  Membership fees, for
> example, are not set through policies which are adopted by this group.
> Membership fees is usually a matter discussed between the members who pay
> those fees.  A member usually does not vote for a director if the member is
> dissatisfied with the decisions taken by the director.  That is the
> accountability angle.
> >
> > At 00:07 07-07-2016, Badru Ntege wrote:
> >> The company belongs to the community at large under the custody of
> current members who then elect a board.   It should never be seen as a top
> down issue.
> >
> > If the company belongs to this group there would be a document about
> that.  The only "agreement" up to now is the one where the company agrees
> that its members will follow the policies adopted by this group.  There is
> a discussion about that in the mailing list archives.
> >
> > Regards,
> > S. Moonesamy
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > RPD mailing list
> > RPD at afrinic.net
> > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Community-Discuss mailing list
> Community-Discuss at afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/attachments/20160707/557f5e96/attachment.html>