<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Chair and all</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">This is commendable.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I note Badru's concerns but I think that is the price to pay when one runs a public interest Organisation like AfriNIC. However, you raise a valid point about over burdening the CEO and probably even the Chairman himself. This can be mitigated by good, simple communication and delegation. I'm sure we have strong leadership which can navigate this. After all we don't want them to 'die by email' :-)<br><br><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Ali Hussein</b></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><b>Principal</b></span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hussein & Associates</b></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">+254 0713 601113 </div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Twitter: @AliHKassim</span></p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font></font></span><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Skype: abu-jomo</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LinkedIn: <a href="http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim" target="_blank">http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim</a></span></p><font><br></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit." ~ Aristotle</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373);"><br></span></div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 29 Jun 2017, at 7:11 AM, Chevalier du Borg <<a href="mailto:virtual.borg@gmail.com">virtual.borg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-06-29 9:00 GMT+04:00 Badru Ntege <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:badru.ntege@nftconsult.com" target="_blank">badru.ntege@nftconsult.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":bm" class="a3s aXjCH m15cf2380e3c0deb0">Thank you for your communication however I worry if we are introducing more complications to fix a simple issue. </div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":bm" class="a3s aXjCH m15cf2380e3c0deb0">
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The whole idea of the community lists I would have thought is the transparency but also consensus and bottom up.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nothing has changed. Chairman say those list still exist and issues can still be copied there.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":bm" class="a3s aXjCH m15cf2380e3c0deb0">
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CEO is an employee if the primarily answerable to the board which is answerable to the community.<br>
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I feel you are burdening the CEO with this plan.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I am sure CEO can speak for himself. I also sure the chairman board (who I believe speak on behalf of board on this list) discuss this with CEO before sending last email. You talk of trust, let us start show some trust and faith in some simple thing. </div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":bm" class="a3s aXjCH m15cf2380e3c0deb0">
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The open discussion list allows community to also filter some requests which then get discussed and finally answered in totality.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Nothing in what chairman has propose will change that. See last but one paragraph</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":bm" class="a3s aXjCH m15cf2380e3c0deb0">
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In my simple view the problem is simple a method of responding to issues in time would appease the community.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I not so keen on method. But I do 1000% support timeliness. At very least, CEO or board chair must acknowledged an issue if there is no immediate answer then say when he will come back toward us with answer to issue raised.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":bm" class="a3s aXjCH m15cf2380e3c0deb0">
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Hope other members see it this way I will also be okay if members see it your way but an open discussion would allow and protect our concept of consensus</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Again. NOTHING in chair's email is attempt to shut down open discussion. He clearly state that </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>i) member-discuss and community-discuss continue to exist</div><div>ii) people can still copy message to those list (even better for transparency)</div></div><br><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Borg le Chevalier<br>___________________________________<br>"Common sense is what tells us the world is flat" </div>
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