[rpd] Report from Recall Committee

[Arnaud AMELINA]

Dear  comrade Abdulkarim,

Someone who served as cochairs and made several decisions, must know how it
works and therefore must accept decision made by other entities like the AC
or RC.

Not all steps of processes require community input in implementation even
though community put all of them in place.

There are times for us to show greatness and fair-play and contribute
positively to the history...
When we remove the personal thinking, AFRINIC and the community win.

AFRINIC. en avant!

--
Arnaud


Le jeu. 11 févr. 2021 à 16:00, ABDULKARIM OLOYEDE <
oloyede.aa at unilorin.edu.ng> a écrit :


>

>

> 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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