[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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