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<font face="Tahoma">Thanks, Arnaud.<br>
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While I appreciate your differing view point, I disagree with it.<br>
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You are asserting that the Board are a placeholder to keep AFRINIC
running because the CEO and staff are unable to.<br>
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The Board's involvement has been too visible, even when Alan was
the CEO. Moreover, many items that could have been communicated
and/or co-ordinated by staff also came from the Board. So what is
the point of the staff?<br>
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I interacted with Board members, during Kampala earlier this year,
worried about how they can enhance network resiliency for
AFRINIC's services currently hosted in South Africa. I advised
those Board members to leave these decisions to the AFRINIC staff,
who are more than capable of dealing with this, even during the
CEO transition.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/Nov/19 14:05, Arnaud AMELINA
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<div dir="auto">Hello,</div>
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<div dir="auto">Allow me to offer a different view. </div>
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<div dir="auto">Because we all want role separation which is
normal and must be framed by the company’s constitution, we
must agree that the issue on the table is a matter for
board. (Allegations of malicious actions on to the public
resources which the organization is responsible for on
behalf of the global internet community)</div>
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<div dir="auto">Let us focus more on the message than on the
carrier which could have been the CEO, legal, communication
department.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Separation of roles also encompasses that each
party accept and respect the role and responsibilities of
others.</div>
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<div dir="auto">May be when the organization solves its
complex governance issues being addressed and occupying all
our attention, board can go back to routine work and ceo
and staff will engage on the operations and we will enjoy
again working and interacting with them.</div>
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<div dir="auto">It is curious to see that some former board
members who were keen in violating the rules of separation
of roles and always invoking company act, board fiduciary
responsibilities are now asking for the separation...</div>
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<div>We’ve won something... let’s make it continue. <br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le mar. 5 nov. 2019 à 07:01,
Mark Tinka <<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu"
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<div> <font face="Tahoma">Don't know if it's just me, but
curious why this update (and the investigations associated
with it) are not coming from our CEO.<br>
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I've consistently said that I feel the AFRINIC Board are
too involved in AFRINIC's day-to-day affairs, which, IMHO,
need to be managed by the AFRINIC CEO and his team, both
in front of and behind the scenes.<br>
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I am somewhat disturbed that this culture does not appear
to have changed even on the back of the appointment of the
new CEO.<br>
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Personally, I'd rather be hearing from the CEO and/or any
of his staff, than the Board.<br>
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Mark.</font><br>
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<div>On 4/Nov/19 22:45, Bope Domilongo Christian wrote:<br>
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<div>Dear Community at large,<br>
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As the community may also, be aware, AFRINIC has
attracted some media coverage relating to suspicious
activity in its WHOIS database primarily a limited
section of legacy resources. <br>
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On behalf of the Board, I would like to assure
both the AFRINIC membership and the Internet
community at large that the Board has conducted some
preliminary assessment of the matter, and would like
to let you know that investigations are progressing
well and will be concluded soon, most likely before
or by the end of the year. We cannot reveal much or
go into further details at this stage as we do not
want to jeopardise the investigations. However, you
can rest assured that we will get to the bottom of
the matter. At the same time, we want to ensure that
the rights of any affected parties are respected and
protected as per the law. All said we are keen to
ensure the interests of AFRINIC members are
safeguarded as we seek to maintain stable, reliable
and effective management of Internet resources.
Besides, the AFRINIC WHOIS database remains fully
operational with high standards of integrity. <br>
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<div>Nevertheless, there is always room for
improvement and AFRINIC operations team is currently
reviewing some of the long-established processes
relating to the management of Internet resources
under AFRINIC's ambit. The team is already
implementing some improvement measures at both the
IT Infrastructure and process level. As usual, the
AFRINIC membership will be appropriately apprised of
the developments.<br>
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Best regards, <br>
Dr Christian D. Bope<br>
Chairman, AFRINIC Board of Directors</div>
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