<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 Jun 7, 2022, at 13:07 , Sylvain Baya <<a href="mailto:abscoco@gmail.com" class="">abscoco@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Dear AfriNIC's Community,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope this email finds you in good health!</div><div class="">Please my comments below, inline...<br class=""><br class="">Le mardi 7 juin 2022, Owen DeLong via Community-Discuss <<a href="mailto:community-discuss@afrinic.net" class="">community-discuss@afrinic.net</a>> a écrit :<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 2, 2022, at 23:20 , Ish Sookun <<a href="mailto:ish.sookun@lasentinelle.mu" target="_blank" class="">ish.sookun@lasentinelle.mu</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Hi Owen,
<div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2 Jun 2022, at 20:16, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class="">It would be legitimate to insist that only one of those members of the “representative team” do the speaking and voting on behalf of the entire representative team, but limiting the online presence only to one representative per organization is unreasonable.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none" class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will not support that only one person from the “representative team” to do the speaking. Technical, legal and financials are three distinct subjects and I do not find it exaggerated if an organisation would like to have a three-member representative to speak on these subjects individually during the AGMM.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>If you have a group representative, it should speak with one voice. They may discuss amongst themselves what that one voice will say, but there should be a designated spokesman.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for your email, Owen,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Brother, imho, for that to become a right for each </div><div class="">AfriNIC's Resource Member (RM), you may need first to follow the available steps to request an </div><div class="">amendment to the current version of the AfriNIC's </div><div class="">Bylaws.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>No, I think that is a valid interpretation of the current bylaws as they exist.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anything else is an opportunity for either chaos or overrepresentation.</div><div class=""> </div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A chaos, due to what please?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>If you have a team representative, and they are all allowed to speak as said representative, you either get overrepresented by having multiple voices or you get chaos because it becomes difficult for the body at large to determine which of the voices actually represents the organization at any particular moment in time.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>