[Community-Discuss] [rpd] ARIN without Owen Delong ?

[Marcus K. G. Adomey]

Dear Owen and PDWG,

I don’t think this is an off-topic. There are reasons why we always have session on “policy update from other RIRs” at every PPM…it’s like we care for what happened at ARIN  PDP through its AC and  possible impact on our PDP and related issues

In response  to the statement below, one would like to know why  is Owen talking  about “  was not forced to resign”?  Nobody said so AFAIK, how come the position at ARIN constitute restraint to speech and why only now?

And question for this community is how  do we deal with conflict of interest in our PDP?

Thanks



Marcus


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From: Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss <community-discuss at afrinic.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2021 5:03:19 PM
To: Arnaud AMELINA <amelnaud at gmail.com>
Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss at afrinic.net>; AfriNIC Resource Policy Discussion List <rpd at afrinic.net>
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] [rpd] ARIN without Owen Delong ?

Apologies to the list for this off-topic posting, but given the unwarranted attention already paid to the
matter and the escalating level of speculation, I beg your indulgence. This will (hopefully) be the
only post I make on the matter here.

For clarity:

1. I chose to resign my position on the ARIN AC. I was not forced to resign. I did not have to resign.
So your speculation is neither accurate, nor appropriate and the implications are offensive.

2. I chose to resign in order to have greater freedom and flexibility to advocate for changes in the
internet community, some of which would be considered a conflict of interest with my role as
an Advisory Council member. While I have been outspoken by most standards, the reality is
that my position on the AC did serve as a significant restraint to my speech in many cases.
The time has come where I felt the need to remove that restraint in order to best serve the
community.

Reading anything other than the above into it would be a mistake and further speculation is very
unlikely to produce any accurate conclusions.

If anyone has questions about my resignation, they are free to ask me directly, but this really is
not an appropriate topic for this list.

Owen


On Jul 13, 2021, at 05:56 , Arnaud AMELINA <amelnaud at gmail.com<mailto:amelnaud at gmail.com>> wrote:

@Taiwo

We all would like to know why Owen, so active in our PDP, has to resign from his position at ARIN AC  which serves in an advisory capacity to the Board of Trustees on Internet number resource policy and related matters.

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Arnaud

Le lun. 12 juil. 2021 à 12:37, Taiwo Oye <taiwo.oyewande88 at gmail.com<mailto:taiwo.oyewande88 at gmail.com>> a écrit :
Benjilo.
How is this of concern to you or to any of the members of the afrinic community. Kindly direct your question to the appropriate quarters - owen at delong.com<mailto:owen at delong.com> -


On Jul 11, 2021, at 19:27, Paschal Ochang <pascosoft at gmail.com<mailto:pascosoft at gmail.com>> wrote:

Great question Daniel.

On Sunday, July 11, 2021, DANIEL NANGHAKA <dndannang at gmail.com<mailto:dndannang at gmail.com>> wrote:
Is this worth discussing on the rpd or mailing lists?

On Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 8:36 PM Marcus K. G. Adomey <madomey at hotmail.com<mailto:madomey at hotmail.com>> wrote:
Hello

Out of curiosity, does anyone know  why Owen Delong active in AFRINIC PDP resigned from ARIN AC?

https://www.arin.net/about/welcome/ac/meetings/2021_0617/ point 10



Marcus


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