[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

[Sami Salih]

Sander,

I'm using a public email (outlook.com) not my official one (sustech.sd), however my signature is MY signature I use it to show the people the ground where I stand when I say something. If I signed as Lecturer in ICT then I say something about Football people should take it as coming from a football fan not from a professional in the field. Conversely, when I participate in something related to education people have to take my comments as serious as its coming from a professional in the field.
I hope the point is clear, signature(s) is used to wight the information stated in the message. Using official account is another thing.

Dr. Sami H.O. Salih
Assistant Prof, School of Electronics Engineering, SUST
Head of R&D, NTC, SUDAN
President of SDv6TF
T/F: (249)122045707/187171355
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From: Sander Steffann <sander at retevia.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 3:17 PM
To: Sami Salih
Cc: Andrew Alston; Ahmed Fadl; wafa Dahmani; Community-Discuss at afrinic.net
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

Hi Sami,

I see this email sent to individuals to support/campaign for some nominators (I'm not in agreement with all proposed names) who are among the public slat of AFRINIC candidates, IMHO any one is free to campaign. The undersigned signature represent the level of engagement of the sender in the community and gives the recipient more confident about her selection to the benefit of the community.

It also implies that those positions are relevant to the content of the message. I would be very surprised if some if those organisations mentioned agree with being drawn into an African election process. I'll be asking the RIPE delegates to the NRO AC about their involvement in this.

This is too far from sponsoring youth and educate them in a way that may push them to support/oppose something.

Indeed. This is a strong indication of a conflict of interest, while the actions of an independent foundation are not.

My personal signature as SUST employee did't mean my view i this email represent SUST!

Oh but it does. You are communicating using an official company template. If you are not speaking as an official representative you cannot use that template or you have to be very explicit that you are speaking only for yourself. Otherwise your message WILL be seen as a statement from an employee.

Cheers,
Sander

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