[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Council of Elders

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 11 Jul 2016, at 20:32, Marcus K. G. Adomey wrote:

> Hi Nishal,

hi marcus,


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

i believe the CEO’s email address is:  ceo [at] afrinic.net.
or, it used to be;  the afrinic team can help you with that.  you 
probably want a ticket number, so you should likely mail contact [at] 
afrinic.net.
to post to this *public* mailing list, you can send mail to:  
community-discuss [at] afrinic.net.  more information on the list is 
located in the footer of this message.


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

i don’t purport to understand anyone, other than myself.


>> 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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