[Community-Discuss] Fwd: [members-discuss] Matters Arising - Further clarification

[Sunday Folayan]

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Dear AFRINIC Members and Community,

I would like to offer some additional clarifications on issues being
discussed.

1. Strategic Document
This is not a radical departure from past strategic plans, in outline.
Indeed, this is an enhancement of the unpublished 2014-2018 plan. The
management uses the strategic document to plan activities and to propose
budgets for each year. It should be stated that micro management of the
executives by the Board is not in the best interest of AFRINIC.

2. Board-Community Relations
The Board welcomes proposals and solutions on issues at all times. The
board believes that all comments should be made in a manner that is
respectful and gives recognition to the fact that there may be opposing
views.  In particular, comments that imply wrongdoing but do not give
details of the alleged infraction are not encouraged or welcomed.

3. Fees.
The recent change in the allocation fee charges was merely a
clarification and it only affects members with new allocation requests;
it has no effect on existing members who do not request additional
number resources. As already indicated, the setting of fees is a Board
responsibility.  Any member is welcome to comment on the fee structure
or to make their own proposal at any time, and such comments or
proposals will be duly considered at the time of the next fee review.

4. Membership of CoE
The Bylaws section 16 gives the Board the power to consider former
Chairpersons of AFRINIC for appointment to the Council of Elders. The
Board has not formally discussed appointing the former Chairman in
question to the CoE, but we will add a discussion of this issue to the
agenda of the next Board meeting.

Thanks and Regards…

Sunday Folayan
Chair, AFRINIC Board