[Community-Discuss] Accountability assessment

[Noah]

On 7 Jul 2016 15:24, <sm+afrinic at elandsys.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Noah, Badru,
>

HI SM,

> 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.
>

I was not naive when I asked all the above questions. I knew what I was
asking and why I was asking.

>> 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.
>

FYI, besides being an netizen and a community member, I  AM A RESOURCE
MEMBER. I therefore have all the rights to query anything and raise my
concerns where I see fit. I just prefer to conduct myself as a community
member.

What I was trying to point out is that, whether a resource member or
non-resource member, some decision regarding AFRINIC business ought to be
openly discussed following the bottom up approach. [1]

Therefore since some members are so bent on the argument that only resource
members should be concerned....

I beg to ask!

Were the so called resource members/voters/the paying one's consulted
regarding this new fees being proposed?

Noah

[1] Even IANA Transition has been community centric follow the bottom up
process. Why is it becoming an issue today when it come to AFRINIC.
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