[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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