<html><head></head><body><div dir="auto">Hi Alan, <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Thank you for the information. I understand that AFRINIC is very liberal in allowing external sponsorship by AFRINIC members for their employees to attend AFRINIC meetings and i firmly believe in this as it encourages others to do the same and grows the community. <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">What i'm curious to know is that whether or not it is deemed as appropriate for AFRINIC to intervene in circumstances that could end up filling the room with sponsored people favoring a specific organisation ? <br><br></div>
<div dir="auto">Cheers, <br></div>
<div dir="auto">Chittesh<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote" >On Dec 10, 2018, at 6:54 PM, Alan Barrett <<a href="mailto:alan.barrett@afrinic.net" target="_blank">alan.barrett@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="blue"><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 10 Dec 2018, at 18:34, Chittesh Sham <chittesh@lsl.digital> wrote:<br> <br> Hi Willy, <br> <br> I agree with you that organisations (outside fellowship programs) should have a set of clearly defined rules both for their fellows as well for other stakeholders involved. <br> <br> But the main parties such as AFRINIC and ICAAN should also set some rules for those outside fellowship programmes. As a preventive measure, so as to avoid the running into the risk of some organisation with a lot of fellows having a strong lobby with some sort of hidden agenda. <br> <br> I am unaware if AFRINIC has already setup some rules according to this, do you know if it does? <br></blockquote><br>AFRINIC has not set any rules for what you call “outside fellowship programmes”. AFRINIC members often sponsor their employees to attend AFRINIC meetings, and other organisations may also sponsor people to attend. AFRINIC has not interfered in such arrangements.<br><br>At one time, AFRINIC had an arrangement with OIF, where AFRINIC would assist in arranging travel for OIF fellows, but that arrangement lapsed some years ago.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Alan Barrett<br><br><br><hr><br>Community-Discuss mailing list<br>Community-Discuss@afrinic.net<br><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss</a><br></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>