<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 16, 2019, at 18:38 , JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via Community-Discuss <<a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net" class="">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="EstiloCorreo19" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""></span></span><span class="EstiloCorreo19" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">I don’t think this will be acceptable.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="EstiloCorreo19" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="EstiloCorreo19" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: windowtext;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">We like it or not we should not ban anyone to come to the meetings, unless they violate code of conduct or anything similar that we have for the meetings. Of course, unless in our code of conduct we state explicitly that anyone using the whois or collecting emails from the lists will be ban to participate in the meetings.</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I agree that banning them from attending the meeting would be unacceptable.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>However, if the community finds their business practices sufficiently inappropriate, then I have no problem with the idea that the community can encourage the board to prohibit them from exhibiting at the meeting.</div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div>The standards for participation (open to all) and exhibiting (businesses attempting to solicit relationships) have very different goals and requirements.</div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: windowtext; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Owen</span></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>