[rpd] Call for interest for PDWG chairs closed & Way forward

[Fernando Frediani]

I fully support Jaco's proposal and Mark's email below

Fernando Frediani

On 08/04/2021 14:56, Mark Elkins wrote:

>

> I really, really like this idea - especially the consensus part... and 

> also as it seems we only have two truly suitable candidates.

>

>     /1.  We select the two candidates as above, in my opinion with

>     Vincent in the two-year tenure and Darwin in the one year tenure. 

>     By consensus if possible./

>

> I have individually asked both Vincent and Darwin whether they would 

> be agreeable to this and they both stated *Yes *as per above.

>

> /        2.  Given that the next meeting is two months from now, I 

> would like to propose that we measure these

>         tenures as from "this year" such that the effective tenures 

> will be one and two years respectively from now,.../

>

> I also agree with this - I don't want a repeat of all this in two 

> months time.

>

> I don't expect full consensus - I honestly expect between 4 and 10 

> people to say No, and to repeat that several times. I would though 

> love to see masses of support for this. This will save quite a bit of 

> time (and money).. and allow us all to proceed fairly quickly with new 

> Co-Chairs - and back to a level of sanity!

>

> Please can we sort this out by *Reasonable Consensus!*

>

>

> On 4/8/21 6:16 PM, Jaco Kroon wrote:

>>

>> Hi All,

>>

>> Given that we've repeatedly stated that there should be a nominator 

>> and a seconder for all nominations, this means we only really 

>> received 3 nominations (3,4,5 below).

>>

>> Given that Abulkarim (4) was one of the co-chairs removed by the 

>> recall committee, and there has been controversy around the previous 

>> co-chairs, in my opinion we only really have two candidates.

>>

>> And both of these candidates seems to be good choices.  From 

>> Vincent's (3) nomination, by Barry:

>>

>> "Vincent is an outstanding person for the PDWG as he was the first 

>> co-chair of the same back in the days. we need to bring back the 

>> fundamental values and hence i nominate him"

>>

>> I could not agree more about bringing back the fundamentals, and 

>> plainly Vincent has experience in a co-chair position that we 

>> desperately need at this point in time.

>>

>> Regarding Darwin (5), I've gone back and read a fair number of his 

>> emails over the last year or so, and Darwin in my opinion has a level 

>> head, the ability to reason and understand as well.  I could not find 

>> a single example of him being involved personally in a controversy in 

>> spite of him providing his opinion on a number of topics.

>>

>> I would thus like to make two proposals.

>>

>> 1.  We select the two candidates as above, in my opinion with Vincent 

>> in the two-year tenure and Darwin in the one year tenure.  By 

>> consensus if possible.

>>

>> 2.  Given that the next meeting is two months from now, I would like 

>> to propose that we measure these tenures as from "this year" such 

>> that the effective tenures will be one and two years respectively 

>> from now, and not "puppet" and "one year" effectively.

>>

>> Kind Regards,

>> Jaco

>>

>> On 2021/04/08 16:26, AFRINIC Policy Liaison wrote:

>>> *

>>>

>>> Dear Colleagues

>>>

>>>

>>> As mentioned in our email on 7 April 2021, AFRINIC as Secretariat 

>>> had started the process of contacting the nominators that were 

>>> mentioned in the nomination forms of the candidates .  The update 

>>> feedback received is as follows:-

>>>

>>>

>>> 1.

>>>

>>>     Wijdane Goubi  -  Nominator did not approve as per email received

>>>

>>>

>>> 2.

>>>

>>>     Anthony Ikechukwu Ubah -  Nominator did not approve as per email

>>>     received

>>>

>>>

>>> 3.

>>>

>>>     Vincent Ngundi - Both nominator & Seconder approved as per email

>>>     received

>>>

>>>

>>> 4.

>>>

>>>     Adbulkarim Oloyede -  Both nominator & Seconder approved as per

>>>     email received

>>>

>>>

>>> 5.

>>>

>>>     Darwin da Costa - Both nominator & Seconder approved as per

>>>     email received

>>>

>>>

>>> 6.

>>>

>>>     Elvis Ibeanusi - Nominator approved as per  email  received

>>>

>>> Regards

>>>

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