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

[Saul Stein]

Makes perfect sense. I agree



From: Mark Elkins <mje at posix.co.za>
Sent: Thursday, 08 April 2021 19:56
To: policy-liaison at afrinic.net; rpd at afrinic.net
Subject: Re: [rpd] Call for interest for PDWG chairs closed & Way forward



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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