[rpd] Integrity Issues - publish the Nov'14 transcript ?

[Owen DeLong]

Is there some reason to believe that the board did not review the transcript in their deliberations?

Do we have some reason to believe that the entire board, having reviewed the transcript would
then lie to us in defense of Andrew Alston?

If your answer to both of these questions is no, then I see nothing to be gained in this matter from
community review of the transcript.

If your answer to either of these questions is yes, then I believe you see bigger problems with
the entire board that are much more important than this particular accusation.

I do not know, but it is my speculation that a transcript of such a board meeting likely contains
a number of discussions of a privileged nature which cannot properly be shared with the community.
I am all for greater transparency, but we must recognize that at some levels, the board deals
with things of a nature that they cannot be shared with the entire community.

Examples would be personnel matters for AfriNIC staffing. I’d be surprised if there weren’t
some discussions of the CEO recruitment process in that meeting transcript. It would be
unfair to the candidates to share the contents of such discussions with the community.

Again, I have no knowledge of the actual contents of the transcript, this is just my speculation,
but there may well be legitimate reasons that the board cannot share the transcript in its
entirety.

The board has said that there is no evidence of wrongdoing by Mr. Alston. I believe that if the
transcript contained any such evidence, they would not make such a statement. If you do not
believe that to be the case, you should call for a vote of no confidence in the entire board, the
community should vote accordingly, and we should move on.

Owen

> On Jul 14, 2015, at 09:29 , sylvain aboka baya <abscoco2001 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dear All,
> 
>> I just would like the Board to do the right thing and open it up so that the community can see that
>> they have done the right thing. It is not open enough right now, not transparent enough and
>> has inadequate accountability, but the information is there to clear this up ... there is a
>> transcript that can clear all this up ... release it so that we can move forward.
> 
> +1 with this, guessing that the record of the transcript is the lone proof which exist. 
> 
> Regards,
> --sb.
> 
> --- En date de : Mar 14.7.15, Dr Paulos Nyirenda <paulos at sdnp.org.mw> a écrit :
> 
>> De: Dr Paulos Nyirenda <paulos at sdnp.org.mw>
>> Objet: Re: [rpd] Re: [members-discuss] Re: Integrity Issues - publish the	Nov'14 transcript ?
>> À: "Jackson Muthili" <jacksonmuthi at gmail.com>, "AfriNIC Discuss" <members-discuss at afrinic.net>, "RPD" <rpd at afrinic.net>
>> Date: Mardi 14 juillet 2015, 10h13
>> On 14 Jul 2015 at 10:19, Jackson Muthili <jacksonmuthi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> ...
>>> Dr Nyirenda, Alan Barrett already took side with his violent defending of Andrew Alston. If the proof you seek is in those transcripts and it is Alan to cause 
>>> them to be published then you may not get anything
>>> 
>> from Alan Barrett because he already rebuffed said
>> allegations against
>>> Alston.
>>> ...
>> 
>> Mmmm... I have confidence that Alan and Sunday will, hopefully, do the right thing.
>> 
>> By entering this debate it does not mean that I am for or against Andrew, not at all, I just
>> would like the Board to do the right thing and open it up so that the community can see that
>> they have done the right thing. It is not open enough right now, not transparent enough and
>> has inadequate accountability, but the information is there to clear this up ... there is a
>> transcript that can clear all this up ... release it so that we can move forward.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Paulos
>> ======================
>> Dr
>> Paulos B Nyirenda
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>> 
>> 
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