[rpd] Eligibility Criteria for PDWG chairs

[Fernando Frediani]

On 28/03/2021 15:23, Noah wrote:
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> On Sun, 28 Mar 2021, 16:40 Wijdane Goubi, <wijdan.goubi at gmail.com 
> <mailto:wijdan.goubi at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Regarding the point C, I find it hard to understand the need of
>     having a candidate who must have at least 3 years of sufficient
>     past and participative experience, which is first and foremost,
>     unfair because being a member for 3 years in either AFRINIC or any
>     other RIR does not make you necessarily an expert whereas there
>     can be a candidate with less years of experience yet with better
>     understating and expertise. That being said, the years of
>     experience should be unconsidered when deciding whether the
>     candidate is eligible or not.
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>
> Years of active participation and interest in the PDP is everything 
> otherwise we end up with co-chairs who "believe this and believe that" 
> due to lack of active participation and following up discussions so as 
> to make informed judgement.
>
> We don't want "believers" but rather folk who make an effort to 
> objectively find consensus or rough consensus or lack of consensus 
> from working group discussions and years of experience and 
> participating ensures this.
+1
>
>
>     As for the point D, it is illogical as well, since it also
>     categorize the candidates and privilege some of them, as there can
>     be a candidate who have not participated in two AFRINIC events or
>     more (face-to-face or virtual) in the past three years yet still
>     have both a sufficient awareness and proficiency of the CPM as
>     well as an adequate technical knowledge.
>
> Lack of participation should be a disqualification. There is no two 
> ways around it and we should be honest with each other less we waste 
> everyones time with potentially incompetent co-chairs.

Although I mentioned point D should not be a hard requirement in my view 
as long the candidate meet all others, I  fully agree with the statement 
to not waste everyone time with potentially incompetent co-chairs

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> In any case, using the RPD list as a voter register is unacceptable 
> for reasons such is pseudo accounts aka sock puppets and potential for 
> ballot stuffing through multiple subscription like the 170 subscribers 
> towards the co-chair elections in 2020 and who know how many more as 
> of 2021.

Agree as well.

Fernando

>
> Noah
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