<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Dear Alan,</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">What secrets do we have to hide about how AfriNIC is governed? Why not provide the minutes without redaction so if it resolves this festering matter once and for all?</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">It does not makes sense to me and it is clear that there is something to hide. The board is not able to tell the community what transpired and points fingers at those who would inform us. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I would appreciate it better if the organisation was a private company or had some information that was of some trade secret value. But AfriNIC is basically a monopoly in the region and cannot have competition from any of the other RIRs. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I'm beginning to see signs of elected officers of a community that unilaterally take decisions and actions without due recourse to the membership that put them there in the first place. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">This truly saddens me. Afrinic board meetings should be public.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Benjamin</div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Jul 15, 2016, at 5:26 AM, Alan Barrett <<a href="mailto:alan.barrett@afrinic.net">alan.barrett@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 15 Jul 2016, at 02:43, Benjamin Eshun <<a href="mailto:benjamin.eshun@gmail.com">benjamin.eshun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Chair Sunday,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>When can we the community have the transcripts of the 2014 meetings as it being after a 1 year, the </span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>minutes are still not published. So pls tell us know when we can expect it. </span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Don’t expect transcripts to be published at all. The Board has committed to publish minutes, but reserves the right to redact them before publication. In the case of old minutes that have not yet been published, the process of redaction (to remove information that had never been planned to be published) is ongoing. I expect it to be done by the end of 2016.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Alan Barrett</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Community-Discuss mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net">Community-Discuss@afrinic.net</a></span><br><span><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss</a></span><br></div></body></html>