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[rpd] [Board-Discuss] UPDATE PRIVATE: Re: Draft Procedure for Removal of an NRO NC/ASO AC Member

Sunday Folayan sfolayan at gmail.com
Wed Dec 13 10:29:31 UTC 2017


On 12/12/2017 21:52, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
>> On Dec 12, 2017, at 12:03 , Sunday Folayan <sfolayan at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:sfolayan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Marcus, Kangamutima and the Community,
>> Let me make a clarification.
>>
>> The thinking and intention of the Board is that:
>>
>> 1. Provision 9.2a can be triggered by 9.4 or by the Board when the 
>> need arises, without waiting six months for a community meeting.
>>
>> 2. Such an action is indeed an emergency action. Such an action 
>> requires  a super majority of the board as noted in 9.2a and 1 above.
>>
>> 3. The Board is happy to make it 3/4 i.e. 7 members, instead of the 
>> current super-majority of 2/3 i.e. 6 members, if there is no 
>> objection or other view on the required majority from the community.
>>
>> There is nothing inappropriate about such a provision. Indeed, the 
>> Board (elected by the same community, acting on behalf of the 
>> community) approves policies made by the Community, on behalf of the 
>> community.
>
> Well… Not quite true, there Sunday.
>
> The board is elected by the AfriNIC voting members. The ASO AC is 
> elected by a far larger community (or at least a far larger community 
> is eligible to participate in the election should they choose to do so).
>

For the intention, If we want to be very specific, then the board is 
elected by voting members who are a subset of the larger community.

The Board is also a part of the community.

Sunday.

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