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

[DANIEL NANGHAKA]

Dear Marcus,

I strongly agree, that there are policy updates from the other RIRs, what
is catching my interest at the moment is that Owen has been one of the very
active participants on PDP and I believe AFRINIC has a high level of
freedom of expression.
When he gives a reason that he wants 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 his role as an
Advisory Council member. I begin to realise that Owen could have been
having a high conflict of interest which conflicted with his position on
the AC.

Dear Owen,
Owen, kindly advise how we could deal with the Conflict of Interest in the
PDP as you state it clearly in your reason. Furthermore, I still have
question marks as to why the AFRINIC PDP is of high interest to you - yet
the Policies discussed are for the development of the Internet in Africa.
Is something wrong with the AFRINIC PDP that stimulates high interest for
your participation in AFRINIC Process that the Africa participants have
failed to solve which requires your expertise?

Is ARIN more superior than AFRINIC?

Thanks
Daniel


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On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 13:26, Marcus K. G. Adomey <madomey at hotmail.com>
wrote:


> 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

>

>

> ------------------------------

> *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> 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.

>

> --

> Arnaud

>

> Le lun. 12 juil. 2021 à 12:37, Taiwo Oye <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 -

>

>

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

>

> Great question Daniel.

>

> On Sunday, July 11, 2021, DANIEL NANGHAKA <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>

> 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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>

> Paschal.

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