[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

[Sami Salih]

Ok Owen, let me agree with you this time.
As I said in my first intervention in this issue I my self - and many others like you - will not state my affiliation/membership when sending such email, but in the same-time I can't blame people do. IMHO I think sending email to anonymous without stating your positions is useless especially for those who didn't have enough information about AFRINIC - and I think the group received Wafa message is one of them.
I also didn't see that Wafa should apologies and we are not in a position to punish her, this is just a different way to communicate. Its OK to notifying her with our opinions - that why we are here in a community list -  but we need to respect our diversity.

BR

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
________________________________
From: Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 7:55 AM
To: Sami Salih
Cc: Andrew Alston; Ahmed Fadl; wafa Dahmani; Community-Discuss at afrinic.net
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

Sami,

I would hope that you (and others) can see the difference between your signature as SUST (which merely depicts an affiliation) and campaigning with a signature that purports to represent multiple groups seen by many in the community as authority figures and/or positions of responsibility within the community.

You will note, for example, that when I go to the microphone or post something on the list, I do not include anything about my membership on the ARIN advisory council and in many cases, will go out of my way to make it very clear that I am speaking only for myself and not representing the views of ARIN, the AC, etc.

IMHO, there’s nothing particularly wrong with the content of Wafa’s email, but, if she was going to put that content above the signature she did, she should have made it clear that those groups were not endorsing the candidates or opinions expressed.

Owen


On Jul 3, 2019, at 04:47 , Sami Salih <sami.salih at outlook.com<mailto:sami.salih at outlook.com>> wrote:

Salam,

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. This is too far from sponsoring youth and educate them in a way that may push them to support/oppose something.
My personal signature as SUST employee did't mean my view i this email represent SUST!

BR

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
________________________________
From: Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com<mailto:Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com>>
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 2:28 PM
To: Ahmed Fadl; wafa Dahmani; Community-Discuss at afrinic.net<mailto:Community-Discuss at afrinic.net>
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

This email raises so many questions.



While as I have clearly stated – I do not have ANY problem with anyone lobbying on behalf of candidates and their beliefs – however – I have serious issues when other groups that are meant to be neutral start doing this.



As such, I need some clarity based on the signatures of the email.



  1.  Is this email representative of the ASO /AC ‘s view
  2.  Is this email representative of the combined view of the AFRINIC Appeal committee – and how does that align with the neutrality that is meant to exist in such a committee.
  3.  Is this email representative of the views of Global IGF?



I really hope not – but – I have to ask – since that is what the email was signed as.



Thanks



Andrew





From: Ahmed Fadl <ahmed.fadl at 57357.org<mailto:ahmed.fadl at 57357.org>>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 July 2019 14:15
To: wafa Dahmani <wafatn7604 at gmail.com<mailto:wafatn7604 at gmail.com>>; Community-Discuss at afrinic.net<mailto:Community-Discuss at afrinic.net>
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections



Hi Wafa,





Thanks for your email.



I, among other members of AFRINIC in Egypt, received the following email from you many times.



I wondered at that time why should I vote for these candidates specially for those in Eastern and Southern regions while each one was the sole candidate in his region. I quote this from your email "Ladies and Gentlemen, in the context of our strategy ...." what is your strategy and who are you ?





If you are talking about biasing the community, So, do you consider your email as a "member of the appeal committee; ASO / AC excom member and Ex Chair of Governance Committee '(GC) at AFRINIC." fall under what ?



I sent this mail many time but I don’t know why I can’t find this mail on community





Thanks,



Ahmed Fadl





From: wafa Dahmani [mailto:wafatn7604 at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 1:05 PM
To: wafa Dahmani <wafatn7604 at gmail.com<mailto:wafatn7604 at gmail.com>>
Subject: AFRINIC Borad Elections







Dear,

 My name is Wafa Dahmani from Tunisia, an active member of the African community and more specifically AFRINIC: member of the appeal committee; ASO / AC excom member and Ex Chair of Governance Committee '(GC) at AFRINIC.
I contact you to solicit your votes for the following candidates:

Board of Directors:
North Africa (seat 1)

  *   Habin Youssef

West Africa (seat 2)

  *   Ly Ousmane

South Africa (seat 5)

  *   Mpisane Vika William

East Africa (seat 6)

  *   Nkusi Robert Ford

Non-regional (seat 7)

  *   Eshun Benjamin Adzenyamebeye



Election Number Resource Organization Number Council

  *   Mustapha Ben Jemaa

Election Policy Development Working Group

  *   Komi Elitcha
  *   Sami Hassan

Election Governance Committee

  *   Daniel Nanghaka

Ladies and Gentlemen, in the context of our strategy  and in order to preserve AFRINIC's interests for Africa and to be able to choose the right candidates for North Africa in the long term, it is desirable to join all our efforts and vote for these candidates who presents the best choice for an adequate board
the de facto vote online through your interface with AFRINIC is very simple for all categories except the policy development Working group where we want you to mobilize your teams on the spot to vote for our candidates
We strongly solicit your support

Thank you

Wafa Dahmani

member AFRINIC Appeal Committee
Global IGF MAG member
ASO / AC excom member
_______________________________________________
Community-Discuss mailing list
Community-Discuss at afrinic.net<mailto:Community-Discuss at afrinic.net>
https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/attachments/20190710/029fde6d/attachment.html>