[Community-Discuss] Accountability assessment - quorum

Saul Stein saul at enetworks.co.za
Wed Sep 28 08:31:09 UTC 2016


A percentage is good. However, I think that one needs to specify if a
quorum can include online participants and then how to carer for the
voting...
As the stats show, a large number of people voted, but might night have
been present and a number of onsite votes were probably proxies (although
that would count towards a quorum)

-----Original Message-----
From: Dewole Ajao [mailto:dewole at tinitop.com] 
Sent: 28 September 2016 09:56 AM
To: General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net>
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Accountability assessment - quorum

Is hard-wiring the numbers really a good idea as opposed to a percentage
(of something or the other)?

Just thinking of a way to fix the quorum even if active membership were to
double in a year or two.

Dewole.


On 28/09/2016 07:58, Alan Barrett wrote:
>> On 26 Sep 2016, at 22:00, Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net>
wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 26 Sep 2016, at 18:22, Douglas Onyango <ondouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Alan,
>>>> The current quorum requirement is 10 members, which is too small, but
I think 10% is too large.
>>> Perhaps AFRINIC can share with us statistics on member attendance in 
>>> the past 5 years. We can normalize this data and can use something 
>>> like the lowest or average number of members present to prescribe a 
>>> pragmatic number for our quorum requirement.
>> Sure, I can get those numbers.
> Here are the number of votes cast during recent Board elections.  The
number of on-site votes gives a good idea of the number of members who
attended the meetings.
>
>                  2013	2014	2015	2016
> E-Votes	        58	59	49	183
> On-Site Votes	45	66	77	62
> TOTAL      	103	125	126	245
>
> Given these attendance figures, I suggest a quorum requirement of 30
resource members in the future.
>
> Alan
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