<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello Nishal</div><div><br></div><div>My curiousity was objective and as such I will still request that someone who speaks for the board guide me on why the former Chair (Mr <span style="font-size:12.8px">Ntege</span>) was not appointed to the CoE.?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Honest Ornella GANKPA<br></div></div><div>Network engineer <br></div><div><br></div><div href="http://WISESTAMP_SIG_gmail_session"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-07-11 18:36 GMT+01:00 Nishal Goburdhan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nishal@controlfreak.co.za" target="_blank">nishal@controlfreak.co.za</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 11 Jul 2016, at 18:39, Honest Ornella GANKPA wrote:<br>
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and it seems that automatically every former chair become part of the CoE.<br>
<a href="http://afrinic.net/en/about/our-structure/council-of-elders" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://afrinic.net/en/about/our-structure/council-of-elders</a><br>
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the url that you reference says:<br>
“.. The AFRINIC Bylaw (Section 16) allows the Board to appoint..”<br>
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“allow” is not the same as “automatic” to *this* native-english speaker.<br>
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so, i looked up the bylaws.<br>
quoting: <a href="http://afrinic.net/en/about/bylaws?start=15" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://afrinic.net/en/about/bylaws?start=15</a><br>
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“16.1 Membership to the Council shall be opened to such former chairpersons who served at least one full term in that capacity. “<br>
i read that[1] “shall”, as a SHOULD and not MUST (2119 style).<br>
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you might read that differently,<br>
—n.<br>
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[1] though, of course, i don’t speak for the board   :-)<br>
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