[rpd] Eligibility Criteria for PDWG chairs

[Fernando Frediani]

On 28/03/2021 15:23, Noah wrote:

>

>

> 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.

>

>

> 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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