<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I believe the deeper question is WHY is there an increasingly smaller candidate slate of those volunteering to serve on Afrinic board, year in year out.<div><br></div><div>Two possible answers:</div><div>A) Good candidates are avoiding the perceived 'challenging' board /management /community relationships that continue to persist. So nomcom hands are tied and cannot manufacture candidates.</div><div><br></div><div>OR</div><div>B) There are actually many good candidates applying BUT the Nomcom 'Black-box' processes is kicking them out and reducing them to 1 or 2 nominees.</div><div><br></div><div>To drill down to the correct answer, I think the Nomcom process needs to be reformed. </div><div><br></div><div>I still do not understand the benefit of having a black box process in the nomination committee where the community has no clue about how many candidates applied, how many got knocked out and why. IF national Presidential election systems are so open about this, why is that it has to remain hidden for Afrinic?</div><div><br></div><div>And I say this as someone who has once served on Nomcomm as well as someone who has once been rejected by some previous Nomcomm (I want to believe it is within my right to share personal information/experience as this is not covered under NDA, but I stand to be corrected ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>At a minimum, we should request that as Nomcom publishes the candidate slate, they should also show a tally (without the names) of how many candidates applied, how many got kicked out, why they were kicked out and how many successfully went thro. </div><div><br></div><div>I believe this information can shed some light on the deeper question above of whether indeed we have fewer applicants or our black-box nommcom process is simply kicking them out in order to eventually present a single candidate.</div><div><br></div><div>walu.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 3:47 PM Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, 15:15 Sander Steffann, <<a href="mailto:sander@steffann.nl" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">sander@steffann.nl</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Noah,<br>
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> Read the bylaws especially section 13.8<br>
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When there is no candidate then the current director will be re-appointed.</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">You missed the word "eligible" candidate! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nomcom has since slated eligible candidate and candidates with different slates having one or more candidate and candidates nominated.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Appointed != Elected.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There are upcoming elections scheduled where we members will be casting votes for various candidates.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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>> No election -> no Directors<br>
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> Board can appoint.<br>
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True. My statement was exaggerated. My apologies.<br>
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An appointed board does not have a mandate from the members though, and for a bottom-up community ending up with more appointed than elected board members would not be good.</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We have elections coming up soon and we intend to elect otherwise the board would have to appoint or reappoint as its within its powers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Cheers,<br>
Sander<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Noah</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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