<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello.</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 21, 2016, at 1:21 PM, Alan Barrett <<a href="mailto:alan.barrett@afrinic.net" class="">alan.barrett@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 21 Sep 2016, at 13:08, ALAIN AINA <<a href="mailto:Alain.Aina@wacren.net" class="">Alain.Aina@wacren.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">We have a special general meeting coming up in November, and bylaws changes can be passed as special resolutions, needing a 75% majority).<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">OK. Let now look at the 75% majority also called Super Majority. 75% of what ? The Registered members ? The total membership ?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">75% of the members who exercise their vote.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">BTW: In my mail(*)posted on the 29th June, i suggested that we also improved things here.<br class="">(*) <a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2016-June/000350.html" class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2016-June/000350.html</a><br class="">These points seem to not have been (or yet) considered.<br class=""><br class="">4- Amend 12.10 (ii) to set the quorum at 10% of the total membership either present physically or remotely <br class=""><br class="">5- Amend 12.11 to set minimum number of votes. For all vote, a minimum of votes from 10% of the total eligible voters required.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Thanks. There were some good ideas in your email, and I will work on converting some of them to bylaws changes for consideration.<br class=""><br class="">The current quorum requirement is 10 members,</div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div> A very specific "10 members” in person:</div><div><p class="">ii) The quorum for an Annual General Member meeting shall be composed of minimum of ten (10) members in person comprising:</p><p class="">a) Four (4) Directors elected to represent a region;</p><p class="">b) One (1) Director elected on a non-regional criterion; and</p><p class="">c) Five (5) Resource Members.</p></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> which is too small,</blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I agree</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""> but I think 10% is too large.<br class=""></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Both in Person and remote( with the appropriate authentication and authorization) ??</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br class=""></div><div>—Alain</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Alan Barrett<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Community-Discuss mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Community-Discuss@afrinic.net" class="">Community-Discuss@afrinic.net</a><br class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss<br class=""></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>