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[rpd] Co-Chair Election Process
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
jordi.palet at consulintel.es
Fri Jul 17 21:38:56 UTC 2020
Hi Anthony,
It looks very strange to me that people from Africa itself is the most pessimistic about “we can’t do this” and all kind of objections, while the rest of the world did that. Is like you don’t trust yourself.
There is no need to do it “absolutely” on-line in the second or even minute. For an election, you can open a time frame for 7 days before the deadline, or during the full on-line event, or something similar.
There are tons of solutions to all the possible issues that you and others are exposing.
I always say “querer es poder”, which I’m not sure if it can be directly translated to English as “wanting to do something is being able to do it”.
Regards,
Jordi
@jordipalet
El 17/7/20 20:48, "Anthony Ubah" <ubah.tonyiyke at gmail.com> escribió:
Hello,
It will be extremely difficult to run an online election in such small notice without flaws.
The idea of hand-raising looks interesting, but as Owen highlighted, there is the possibility of an individual sitting behind multiple terminals, across multiple VPNs, or on VMs raising hands. There is also no limit to the number of email accounts one can register in the RPD.
Also, internet speeds in different parts of the continent can not guarantee real-time participation to the voting process. Poorly timed voting can impact election results.
An online voting system can only be credible if every member of the community is assigned a unique ID, and if there is a policy guiding the accreditation of voters. These are not obtainable at the moment.
Thus forcing an e-voting process will be a recipe for chaos and disaster.
I think the current co-chairs should be made to stay on, until the next window.
Kind regards,
Anthony
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1. Re: Co-Chair Election Process (Owen DeLong)
2. Re: Co-Chair Election Process (Owen DeLong)
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:28:46 -0700
From: Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com>
To: Murungi Daniel <dmurungi at wia.co.tz>
Cc: "rpd >> AfriNIC Resource Policy" <rpd at afrinic.net>
Subject: Re: [rpd] Co-Chair Election Process
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> On Jul 16, 2020, at 06:10 , Murungi Daniel <dmurungi at wia.co.tz> wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> Am of the view that we should proceed with the election. The current environment (inability to vote in person or via show of hands) provides us with an opportunity to come up with alternative mechanisms which can be tested and modified accordingly.
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> If we are faced with another scenario such as this in the future, we won?t have to go back to the drawing board.
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> Regarding the ?sleeper cells? effect (aptly named by Sami :) ), the suggestion of a minimum number of posts should suffice. We should also follow up on the suggestion of always using email IDs associated with the member's organization as mentioned in previous posts (we could discuss this plus other alternatives on a separate thread).
Every regions PDP is open to any interested participant, not merely resource holders or members.
As such, I?m not sure how demanding the use of email IDs associated with a member?s organization could possibly be valid.
Owen
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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:34:18 -0700
From: Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com>
To: Daniel Yakmut <yakmutd at googlemail.com>
Cc: "rpd >> AfriNIC Resource Policy" <rpd at afrinic.net>
Subject: Re: [rpd] Co-Chair Election Process
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I am not opposed to tenure extension until we can come to an agreed process.
However, I think that if we use the raised-hand capability of the conferencing system chosen (Zoom, WebEx, Adobe all have this feature), I think we have a reasonable approximation of the same situation as the in-person meeting.
I?m not aware of any Bots that have mastered joining a remote meeting and engaging in a show of hands at the appropriate time when a question is called by voice. That would, indeed, be one heck of a sophisticated bot.
There is, of course, the risk of someone sitting at multiple machines logged into the conference multiple times under different identities, but that can be solved by limiting the participation to RPD list subscribers where each subscribed email is able to get exactly one session.
We could even base it on a cutoff of emails registered on the list prior to some date certain, perhaps even the original AIS start date.
Owen
> On Jul 16, 2020, at 06:57 , Daniel Yakmut via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net> wrote:
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> Dear All,
> How do we generate a voters register? How do we verify that the voters are humans not robots?
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> Let us remember, there are people who will never participate in exchanges on the rpd, but when it comes to voting they will vote, because they have been passive observers. So tying any condition like no. of posts is an exclusion agenda.
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> It is an attempt by the vocal minority to suppress the silent majority, and this is a recipe for commotion.
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> That is why I posit that, agreeing to terms and conditions for e-voting in a polarise environment will take time, intense discussions, confidence building and trust. This I am not sure we can achieve before September.
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> Hence, the tenure extension will allow us resolve all issues. I think e-voting is inevitable in the foreseeable future.
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> Simply,
> Daniel
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> On Jul 16, 2020 12:55 PM, "Paschal Ochang" <pascosoft at gmail.com <mailto:pascosoft at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hello all,
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> Yes I will gave to agree with the extension of the period of service of the current co-chair whose tenure is about to expire. In as much as almost every process in the is pandemic era will benefit from virtual participations we need to look at the intricacies of the current suggestions for using rpd participants and remote voting.
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> I can remember that a policy regarding electronic voting was rejected due to loopholes in the proposal.
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> Secondly disenfranchising folks who will love to participate even in the last minute should not be justifiable.
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> On Thursday, July 16, 2020, Taiwo Oyewande <taiwo.oyewande88 at gmail.com <mailto:taiwo.oyewande88 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi Eddy, Hi all,
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> At a time like this, based on the importance of the co-chair election to the policy development process, the standing election process that clearly states a show of hands and the delicate nature of this election, i will like to suggest that the period of service of the current co-chair be extended till the next face to face meeting.
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> Regards
> Taiwo
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>> On 16 Jul 2020, at 11:48, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net <mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>> wrote:
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>> Yep, in fact looking at the features and the way it works, seems very very close to what LACNIC is using (I believe the developed in-house, but I?m not sure).
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>> Regards,
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>> Jordi
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>> El 16/7/20 12:35, "Mike Silber" <silber.mike at gmail.com <mailto:silber.mike at gmail.com>> escribi?:
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>> This platform has been recommended to me and code is available: https://heliosvoting.org <https://heliosvoting.org/>
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>> On 16 Jul 2020, at 11:51, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net <mailto:rpd at afrinic.net>> wrote:
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>> Hi Eddy, all,
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>> LACNIC always do this remotely and electronically, using the subscribers in the RPD mailing list at some point before the process starts (to avoid ?lots of friends? not really ?part of the PDP? to join the day before the voting).
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>> I will think it is the best choice we have in replacement for a non-in-person-meeting.
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>> I think they could help in providing the platform or the code or something similar, in case you don?t have already an existing platform to do that.
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>> Regards,
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>> Jordi
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>> El 16/7/20 11:47, "Eddy Kayihura" <eddy at afrinic.net <mailto:eddy at afrinic.net>> escribi?:
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>> Dear PDWG community members
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>> The Public Policy Meeting will be on the agenda of the Africa Internet Summit 2020 (AIS-20) inSeptember. One PDWG co-chair?s term (one year) will end during the Public Policy Meeting.
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>> The election process for the PDWG co-chair (please see https://www.afrinic.net/policy/development-working-group#election <https://www.afrinic.net/policy/development-working-group#election> for more details) says that voting shall be by a simple show of hands. However, this Public Policy meeting shall be held online.
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>> We are therefore requesting feedback from the community on how AFRINIC can best proceed with the election to fill the vacant seat of one PDP co-chair. We shall be delighted to receive your proposals for this important matter and hope we can have a consensus within a week.
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>> Regards,
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>> Eddy
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>> Chers membres de la communaut? du PDWG,
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>> La r?union de politique publique sera ? l'ordre du jour du Sommet Africain de l'Internet 2020 (AIS-20) qui se tiendra du 14 au 18 septembre 2020. Le mandat d'un des copr?sidents du PDWG (un an) prendra fin pendant la r?union de politique publique.
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>> Le processus d'?lection du copr?sident du PDWG (voir https://www.afrinic.net/policy/development-working-group#election <https://www.afrinic.net/policy/development-working-group#election> pour plus de d?tails) pr?voit que le vote se fera ? main lev?e. Toutefois, cette r?union de politique publique se tiendra en ligne.
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>> Nous demandons donc ? la communaut? de nous faire part de ses commentaires sur la meilleure fa?on pour AFRINIC de proc?der ? l'?lection pour pourvoir le si?ge vacant d'un copr?sident du PDP. Nous serons ravis de recevoir vos propositions sur cette importante question et esperons avoir un consensus dans une semaine.
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>> Cordialement,
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>> Eddy
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