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

[Sylvain BAYA]

Dear PDWG,

Le 19 février 2021 20:36:56 GMT+01:00, Anthony Ubah <ubah.tonyiyke at gmail.com> a écrit :

>Greetings Madame,

>

>

>Your comments and recommendations is duly noted.

>I recognize that we all have freedom to contribute on issues in the

>PDWG,

>is there any reason why you think I shouldn't exercise mine?

>

>

>Kind regards

>

>Anthony

>

>

>On Fri, Feb 19, 2021, 7:16 PM Sylvain Baya <abscoco at gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> 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.

>> __

>> [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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