[Community-Discuss] My election statement for PDWG CoChair

[Mark Elkins]

Presidence - whilst I was in charge of Elections (NomCom) - I allowed 
one person to proxy another - therefore Ashok is wrong.

I'm sick - with flu - and a bad voice - even then - I was not allowed to 
connect my Mic to the conference. Ernest also refused my phone call.


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Its basically winter solstice on the southern tip of this continent and
unfortunately Mark is in the midst of the flu season, which he has no
wish to share.

So:
Twenty years ago, Mark met Dr Nii Quanor at INET'99 in San Jose,
California - where people were LOUDLY discussing the creation of an
African regional registry so Mark's interest in and support for AfriNIC
goes back a long way.

Mark was first part of NomCom in 2008 and has served on a total of
seven NomCom's.

He became a Board member in 2009 - a position he held for six years.
In this time period, he was both Chair (a short time) and Vice Chair of 
the Board.

He was the Boards ASO-AC representative when Alan Barrett became the CEO.

More importantly, Mark, at AfriNIC-5 (2006) presented his first Policy -
which was later accepted. That is - PI space for IPv6 "/48's"). He has
been a Policy Contributor ever since.

Mark has also given many presentations at AfriNIC meetings.


Some other dates include:

1992 - Started Posix Systems - a very early ISP
1995 - acquired the CO.ZA zone file on behalf of UniForum SA and 
automated it
so everyone could easily acquire domain names.
1996 - qualified as a Cisco CCIE #1992
1997 - started running IPv6 in January of that year
2009 - gave IPv6 based presentations at the IGF on behalf of AfriNIC
2010 - running DNSSEC at Posix
2011 - became a member of the South African IoD (Institution of Directors)

He also:-

* Helped start UniForum SA (Member No. #1) - which is now the current ZACR
(South African Central Registry) - the largest and most successful ccTLD
in Africa

* Is a current member of the ICANN DNSSEC Program Committee

Mark has a great love for the Internet in Africa and that definitely 
includes
a love and passion for AfriNIC. It would be wasteful to not use this 
person with such
an institutional memory and passion for AFRINIC.

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Mark James ELKINS  -  Posix Systems - (South) Africa
mje at posix.co.za       Tel: +27.128070590  Cell: +27.826010496
For fast, reliable, low cost Internet in ZA: https://ftth.posix.co.za

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