[rpd] CO-CHAIRS AND AIS '21

[aziz halim]

Currently, the PDWG has no legitimate co-chairs and it was brought to our
attention that 2 individuals have been masquerading as the PDWG co-chairs.
In my humble opinion, since these 2 people have not been elected or
appointed as co-chairs by the means of the normal elections process, it is
the community’s, AFRINIC’s appealing committee’s and the NomCom’s duty to
investigate it and ensure the election of the co-chairs using the right
method listed in the CPM.

Since there is an ongoing appeal against the co-chairs consensus, their
duties should be suspended until the publication of the appeal’s result.
3.3 The Policy Development Working Group (PDWG)
The Policy Development Working Group has two Chairs to perform its
administrative functions. The PDWG Chairs are chosen by the AFRINIC
community during the Public Policy Meeting and serve staggered two-year
terms. The term ends during the first Public Policy Meeting corresponding
to the end of the term for which they were appointed. A term may begin or
end no sooner than the first day of the Public Policy Meeting and no later
than the last day of the Public Policy Meeting as determined by the mutual
agreement of the current Chair and the new Chair.

Based on the policy clause above, the PDWG functioning rely on its
co-chairs, who are nominated and elected by the AFRINIC community during
the PPM. That said, I ask for everybody’s attention to resolve this issue
as soon as possible. First, the 2 individuals claiming the role of
co-chairs need to be ousted and new co-chairs should be appointed during
the next PPM.
It is completely unacceptable to keep this thing going on, since It
jeopardizes the PDWG activities, and it totally contradicts what has been
maintained in the CPM.
I hope that the concerned instances will react as soon as possible and help
the PDWG elect proper co-chairs.

Cheers.


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> Dear AFRINIC Board, CEO, LC and RPD Community,

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> *?Consequently, the PDWG is hereby informed and advised that it is a matter

> of sound and settled legal principle that, pending the outcome of the

> Appeal Committee proceedings, it (PDWG) refrains from entertaining any

> request emanating from the relevant co-authors of the said policy proposals

> for further amending these proposals on the legal principle of pendente

> lite. It is also my considered view that any attempt in the meantime by the

> latter to submit a newly purported version of their policy proposal will be

> inadmissible (non-receivable) in law?. *

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> *Ashok.B.Radhakissoon.*

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> *Legal  Counsel*

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> Above is a quotation from the email sent by AFRINIC LC on 9th of Dec 2020.

> Going by his fact (supported by the CEO and Liaison officer) and the fact

> that we submitted an appeal against the minority declaration of consensus

> on the position of Co-chairs recently, we would like to state that we

> currently have no co-chairs and I wonder why some individuals are parading

> themselves as the Co-chairs for this WG.

>

>  Let me be clear that until the determination of the appeal and until we

> exhaust all legal means, AFRINIC Liaison staff are to be coordinating the

> WG as the consensus declaration is ?inadmissible?.   This is also because

> this was the last consensus we had on this issue. I do not want to believe

> and would not agree that some impostors would sit as co-chairs during the

> forthcoming policy sessions during AIS '21. I want to believe that the two

> gentlemen are just helping staff and would not be parading themselves as

> Co-chairs.  I hope the CEO and staff would note this to prevent a situation

> where we would have to begin this argument throughout the meeting.

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> I am also surprised that Liaison staff and NOMCOM did not seek nomination

> for the position of Co-chairs. It is no longer news that one of the

> co-chairs we unanimously elected in Uganda for a two-year team should be

> finishing his tenure during AIS-21. Therefore, we are supposed to be having

> an election during this meeting. To my surprise, up till now, we don?t have

> a call for nomination rather we have two people illegally calling

> themselves Co-Chairs without been elected by the community.

>

>   I hope the CEO and LC would respond to my email before the meeting next

> week so that we don?t find our having to spend all the time during the

> policy session during the AIS on this issue.

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> As a way forward, for us to spend our time discussing policies and not this

> issue during the upcoming AIS and to avoid wasting our precious time, I

> would suggest that we rectify the situation now and ask NOMCOM to call for

> nomination so that we can move forward. The Co-chair can be elected at the

> beginning of the meeting. I am sure we can reach a consensus on this and I

> would be ready to help coordinate this if liaison staff would be too busy

> preparing for the meeting.

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> Thank you !

> Best regards,

> Emem William

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