[Community-Discuss] AFRINIC legacy space ownership manipulation

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Le mer. 6 nov. 2019 à 18:26, Alioune Traore via Community-Discuss <
community-discuss at afrinic.net> a écrit :


> Bonjour,

> dans une période de transition il est tout à fait normal que le Board

> puisse donner

> ces genres d'informations pour combler le vide du CEO.

>



Which article of the Bylaw give BoD this power during transition? As former
BoD member you should be able to precise the articles in question.




> J'approuve donc le message du Board à cet effet.

>

> Dr Ing. Alioune Badara TRAORE

>

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>

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>

> Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 à 08:50:46 UTC+1, Adewole Ajao <

> dewole at tinitop.com> a écrit :

>

>

> I agree, Mark. It's the current board-routed management mode that will

> cause fatigue and a perception of non-responsiveness. I'm sure the Board

> hears our concerns and will hasten the process of helping the CEO settle

> down into his new role. Being volunteers as well, they would/should be

> happy to have their AFRINIC management workload reduced ASAP.

>

> Regards,

> Dewole.

>

> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 8:20 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

>

> Thanks, Dewole.

>

> Perhaps the CEO needs to be given more leeway and authority when

> communicating with the community. I am sure the CEO can use his best

> judgment to determine when any information toward the public needs to go by

> the Board for review.

>

> I fear that if the CEO needs to run an inordinate amount of operational

> matters via the Board (including communication), fatigue will set in and

> little progress will be made.

>

> Mark.

>

> On 5/Nov/19 09:13, Adewole Ajao wrote:

>

> Makes sense. Especially on operational and PR issues such as this. Letting

> the CEO communicate will also reduce the sense of non-responsiveness that

> members sometimes feel (although it's unavoidable because the board has to

> convene and agree before any response can be given - even on simple issues

> whereas the CEO will be able to respond authoritatively to a large extent

> on behalf of AFRINIC the company).

>

> Dewole.

>

> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 8:00 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

>

> Don't know if it's just me, but curious why this update (and the

> investigations associated with it) are not coming from our CEO.

>

> I've consistently said that I feel the AFRINIC Board are too involved in

> AFRINIC's day-to-day affairs, which, IMHO, need to be managed by the

> AFRINIC CEO and his team, both in front of and behind the scenes.

>

> I am somewhat disturbed that this culture does not appear to have changed

> even on the back of the appointment of the new CEO.

>

> Personally, I'd rather be hearing from the CEO and/or any of his staff,

> than the Board.

>

> Mark.

>

> On 4/Nov/19 22:45, Bope Domilongo Christian wrote:

>

> Dear Community at large,

>

> As the community may also, be aware, AFRINIC has attracted some media

> coverage relating to suspicious activity in its WHOIS database primarily a

> limited section of legacy resources.

>

> On behalf of the Board, I would like to assure both the AFRINIC membership

> and the Internet community at large that the Board has conducted some

> preliminary assessment of the matter, and would like to let you know that

> investigations are progressing well and will be concluded soon, most likely

> before or by the end of the year. We cannot reveal much or go into further

> details at this stage as we do not want to jeopardise the investigations.

> However, you can rest assured that we will get to the bottom of the matter.

> At the same time, we want to ensure that the rights of any affected parties

> are respected and protected as per the law. All said we are keen to ensure

> the interests of AFRINIC members are safeguarded as we seek to maintain

> stable, reliable and effective management of Internet resources. Besides,

> the AFRINIC WHOIS database remains fully operational with high standards of

> integrity.

>

> Nevertheless, there is always room for improvement and AFRINIC operations

> team is currently reviewing some of the long-established processes relating

> to the management of Internet resources under AFRINIC's ambit. The team

> is already implementing some improvement measures at both the

> IT Infrastructure and process level. As usual, the AFRINIC membership will

> be appropriately apprised of the developments.

>

> Best regards,

> Dr Christian D. Bope

> Chairman, AFRINIC Board of Directors

>

>

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