[rpd] Criteria for Eligibility or Selection of PDWG Co-Chairs

[Sylvain Baya]

Dear PDWG,

Le ven. 19 févr. 2021 13:20, Anthony Ubah <ubah.tonyiyke at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hello Noah,
>

Hi Anthony,

Brother, thanks for freely expressing your view.


> This is an interesting list of criteria, but I'll have to disagree with
> them in this case.
>

...if you disagree with those *criteria* under
discussion; you are either free to:

~°~
•opt1| amend them at your will; or
•opt2| propose a completely different set of
acceptable ones;
•opt3| call the PDWG to stop the entire process [1];
•opt4| only complain;
•opt5| keep quiet and leave the others find/define
the way forward by consensus;
•opt6| mix some of the above.
•opt7| do something different to all the above.
~°~


I'll narrow my reason down to one thing, and that is, this directly
> contravenes the AfriNIC (PDWG) Election Process. Also, nothing in the CPM
> clearly prevents any member of the community from voting.
>


...yes! BtW, the CPM section 3.3 has been
considered as the source of the sole PDP
obligations this PDWG needs to choose a
replacement to its recalled Chairs. Is that process [1]
non PDP compliant? How/Why?



> Under the Policy Development Working Group (PDWG), Election Process, (
> https://afrinic.net/policy/development-working-group?lang=en-GB#election)
>


...if you want the PDWG to use this *selection*
method; then you are for proposition 1| (see [2]) or [C] (see [3]).


it states thus;
>
> *3)  Candidate Eligibility*
>> The candidate must:
>>
>>    1. Be a natural person residing in a country from the AFRINIC service
>>    region.
>>    2. Not be a staff of AFRINIC or any other Regional Internet Registry
>>    (RIR).
>>
>>

Yes! criteria are not a new thing for this PDWG.

...i see that the (PDWG) Election Committee's (EC)
criteria for both candidates [section 3)] and
voters [section 4)] are non PDP compliant
and discrimatory.



> An election is slated to be open and fair, thus should be no criteria
> contrary to those of the CPM, which is our guide. Kindly note that only a
> policy can effect changes otherwise.
>


...while it's obvious that a new DPP could help
to clarify both the method of *selection*, the
*criteria* and maybe the PDWG EC *directives*,
but at this time this PDWG has the right to
choose a method of *selection* in order to
proceed to the sole task allowed without its
Chairs : 'replacing the recalled PDWG's Chairs
by the *selection* method adopted by consensus.'

...any substantive objections to the full process [1]?



> So basically, we need to promote the idea of an open election and fair
> elections, thus none’s rights should be stifled. Any candidate willing to
> volunteer to run for a chair should be allowed to exercise his/her rights
> to do so.
>


...but, we should not try to do it out of our own PDP [4].



> On a final note, you have just played the same role which you have
> criticized Jordi for, what goes around does come around.
>


...it's not the same! as i have already provide
an explanation here [5]; the goal matters!
where one was not PDP compliant, the other is clearly.

Thanks again, brother.
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[1]: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2021/012542.html>
[2]: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2021/012490.html>
[3]: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2021/012504.html>
[4]: <https://afrinic.net/policy/manual#PDP>
[5]: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2021/012515.html>

Shalom,
--sb.


*Best Regards,*
>
>
> *UBAH ANTHONY*
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 6:54 AM Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:
>
>> Hi PDWG participants,
>>
>> Could we as a WG participants agree on a set of criteria for a WG
>> participant to become a co-chair.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>
>
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