[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Council of Elders

[Honest Ornella GANKPA]

Hello Nishal

My curiousity was objective and as such I will still request that someone
who speaks for the board guide me on why the former Chair (Mr Ntege) was
not appointed to the CoE.?

Honest Ornella GANKPA
Network engineer


2016-07-11 18:36 GMT+01:00 Nishal Goburdhan <nishal at controlfreak.co.za>:

> On 11 Jul 2016, at 18:39, Honest Ornella GANKPA wrote:
>
> and it seems that automatically every former chair become part of the CoE.
>> http://afrinic.net/en/about/our-structure/council-of-elders
>>
>
> the url that you reference says:
> “.. The AFRINIC Bylaw (Section 16) allows the Board to appoint..”
>
> “allow” is not the same as “automatic” to *this* native-english speaker.
>
> so, i looked up the bylaws.
> quoting: http://afrinic.net/en/about/bylaws?start=15
>
> “16.1 Membership to the Council shall be opened to such former
> chairpersons who served at least one full term in that capacity. “
> i read that[1] “shall”, as a SHOULD and not MUST (2119 style).
>
> you might read that differently,
> —n.
>
> [1] though, of course, i don’t speak for the board   :-)
>
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