[rpd] Elections

[Emem William]

Dear all,

As Benjamin Investor and Sunday Ayuba have rightly said, there is no
legitimate justification or reason for trying to disenfranchise some of the
participants who subscribed to the rpd mailing list; will register and
participate in the upcoming AIS '20 just because they did not subscribe to
the mailing list on or before February 2020.

I urge the CEO and indeed the AFRINIC Board to look into this and ensure
that the rule of law prevails and everything goes in line with the content
of the AFRINIC CPM.
Thanks.

Kind regards,
Emem  William


On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 17:14 Sunday Ayuba <sundayayuba8 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Dear AFRINIC CEO,

> Please can you explain to the community why you are setting the six months

> rule on who can vote and those who cannot vote. The CPM is very clear on

> who are members of the WG. It clearly states any person

> I quote the CPM

> " *Any person* can, participating either in person or remotely, is

> considered to be part of the Policy Development Working Group.

>

> The Policy Development Working Group has two Chairs to perform its

> administrative functions. The PDWG Chairs are chosen by the AFRINIC

> community during the Public Policy Meeting and serve staggered two-year

> terms. The term ends during the first Public Policy Meeting corresponding

> to the end of the term for which they were appointed. A term may begin or

> end no sooner than the first day of the Public Policy Meeting and no later

> than the last day of the Public Policy Meeting as determined by the mutual

> agreement of the current Chair and the new Chair."

>

> It is only the members of the WG that determine the co chairs are.  This

> is an abberation that some people would be dienfrinchiced based on some

> rules suggested by a  section of the community more especially when  these

>  section are in the minority.  The election rules are very also clear it is

> by show of hands and am sure we can do show of hands. If you know that we

> are ripe for an online election then we should follow the rules. Organise

> an online election that follows the CPM. All Members of the working group

> would vote by show of hands. This is very simple. It would not be

> acceptable to this community if AFRINIC staff are now conniving with a

> section of the community to deny some people thier right. Are we now trying

> to divide the community into old and new members now because of elections.

> You should be glad that more people are now participating in the community.

> It's a multi-stakeholder process. The more people participating the better.

> The bigger the community the better. We all are stakeholders in the

> internet Community and we all are members of the working group and we all

> must participate in the election

> Thank you.

>

> Regards,

> Sunday Ayuba.

>

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