[Community-Discuss] Issue with non-AFRINIC Fellowship to Meeting -

[Alan Barrett]

> On 10 Dec 2018, at 18:34, Chittesh Sham <chittesh at lsl.digital> wrote:
> 
> Hi Willy, 
> 
> I agree with you that organisations (outside fellowship programs) should have a set of clearly defined rules both for their fellows as well for other stakeholders involved. 
> 
> But the main parties such as AFRINIC and ICAAN should also set some rules for those outside fellowship programmes. As a preventive measure, so as to avoid the running into the risk of some organisation with a lot of fellows having a strong lobby with some sort of hidden agenda. 
> 
> I am unaware if AFRINIC has already setup some rules according to this, do you know if it does? 

AFRINIC has not set any rules for what you call “outside fellowship programmes”.  AFRINIC members often sponsor their employees to attend AFRINIC meetings, and other organisations may also sponsor people to attend.  AFRINIC has not interfered in such arrangements.

At one time, AFRINIC had an arrangement with OIF, where AFRINIC would assist in arranging travel for OIF fellows, but that arrangement lapsed some years ago.

Regards,

Alan Barrett