[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Council of Elders

[Marcus K. G. Adomey]

Hi Nishal, 

Why respond to this email when it is specifically addressed to the CEO and the Chair? 

Do we have to be a non - native English speaker to understand that? 


Marcus


> From: nishal at controlfreak.co.za
> To: community-discuss at afrinic.net
> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:36:44 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Council of Elders
> 
> 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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