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

[Murungi Daniel]

Dear community,

> I propose we go ahead with this as WG consensus.

Am elated that we are finally at this point. I write to voice my support for Vincent and Darwin. Given their industry experience am hopeful they will steer us in the right direction.

In the next 3 - 4 years, am open to supporting ‘young blood' candidates such as Anthony Ubah, Sylvain Baya, Sarah Kiden et cetera who have shown the necessary enthusiasm and energy.


Regards,
Murungi Daniel


> On 8 Apr 2021, at 10:52 PM, Frank Habicht <geier at geier.ne.tz> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I fully support Jaco's proposal.
> [note: I'm biased, seconder of Vincent]
> 
> 1. the PDWG has the power to do this.
> 2. the PDWG has the need to select chairs rather sooner than later.
> 
> AfriNIC staff are (rightly) staying out of regulating the PDWG.
> As a result there was a [my opinion] low signal/noise ratio - just ask
> yourself how many emails were taking us forward.
> Yes, it's a democracy, and everyone can voice their concerns.
> But there is also a time for decisions, and the WG should not stay
> "without head" for any longer, in my opinion.
> 
> The fact that I didn't post in a while is possibly because there wasn't
> a useful email like Jaco's during that time. Thank you Jaco.
> [fun fact: I know him *only* from this public mailing list, i think]
> 
> I was shocked when I saw that a just-recalled co-chair was running for
> the same position again [though theoretically i see Owen's point that
> they should be allowed to do so]. If Abdulkarim had posted the email(s)
> to the board for ratification, I would have more faith than I have now.
> In other words [and to be clear, even if it hurts]: I really hope we
> will have different co-chairs than the previous ones.
> 
> I am very happy that (per Mark Elkins' email) both Darwin and Vincent
> have voiced their agreement.
> 
> I propose we go ahead with this as WG consensus.
> 
> Regards,
> Frank Habicht
> ORG-WCL4-AFRINIC
> 
> On 08/04/2021 19:16, 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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