[rpd] Report from Recall Committee

[ABDULKARIM OLOYEDE]

Dear AFRINIC PDWG

I would like to thank the WG/community for your support up till this very
moment. I appreciate the fact that you re-elected me which shows that I was
accepted by the majority of members within this community well beyond my
first term.

All I did was to do the job I volunteered to do and took joint decisions
which I believe we're in the best interest of the community based on the
publicly available information. I proudly say that no section of the CPM
was breached as confirmed by the recall committee itself by having to
invent the term “going against the Norms”. It’s unfortunate that such an
important process had no community input.

I look forward to having a stable community and would do all within my
power to support this community now and in the near future.

 I wish everyone well.

Dr. Abdulkarim Oloyede.


On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 6:40 AM Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:


>

>

> On Feb 11, 2021, at 03:20 , Marcus K. G. Adomey <madomey at hotmail.com>

> wrote:

>

> Dear PDWG,

>

> The Co-chairs appointment mechanism was by show of hands of those

> attending the face to face  meeting where the elections were held  until

> this got abused by filling the room with fake participants for the sake of

> voting.

>

> Using the rpd list as a voter register was never an option since the

> mailing list is open to anyone to participate in policy discussions and

> decisions are made by consensus.

>

>

> The room is supposed to be open to anyone as well, Marcus, so I don’t see

> how that’s different.

>

> The Co-chair role is just a voluntary administrative role which requires a

> certain level of experience and most importantly acceptance by the working

> group.

>

>

> And?

>

> Please let us discourage this notion of “everything must be elections and

> voting” and give a chance to appointment of cochair by acclamation or

> consensus.

>

>

> Marcus, a show of hands in the room is not acclamation or consensus, it is

> a vote.

>

> If by miracle consensus can’t be reached on a candidate to serve, we defer

> to the membership to vote and select co-chair.

>

>

> It is not a miracle if we cannot reach consensus. It is an unfortunate

> fact of where we are today.

>

> If by membership, you mean the membership of the PDWG, then a vote is

> exactly what most people are proposing.

>

> If by membership you mean (as you state below) AfriNIC membership, then

> no… That’s not an acceptable alternative because…

>

> Either through registered members ( the board ) or resources members or

> by the full membership.

>

>

> Membership in AfriNIC is open to those that have resources, those that are

> elected to the board, and those that pay some significant annual fee.

>

> Membership in the PDWG is open to all who have an interest in

> participating.

>

> The PDP calls for the co-chairs to be selected by the PDWG, not the

> AfriNIC membership and there is good reason for this.

>

> Please do not disenfranchise so much of the community so arbitrarily.

>

> Owen

>

>

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