[rpd] CO-CHAIRS AND AIS '21

[Daniel Yakmut]

Dear All,

This was what I had warned us about. Attempting to force the nomination 
of the co-chairs on permanent basis will not hold water. That was why I 
was advocating that we make whatever we were doing regarding the 
co-chairs without election must be temporary.

Truly, we have a petition against the Co-Chairs eligibility to continue 
to manage the PWDG. The petition should have put things on hold, but we 
carried on as if nothing.

I want to suggest that we need to pause here and address the concerns. 
Else we will be acting contrary to our believes of openness and 
transparency.

" We have refused to run but chose to jump"

Simply,

Daniel



On 30/05/2021 12:25 am, Emem William wrote:
>
> Dear AFRINIC Board, CEO, LC and RPD Community,
>
> *“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”. *
>
> *Ashok.B.Radhakissoon.*
>
> *Legal Counsel*
>
> Above is a quotation from the email sent by AFRINIC LC on 9^th  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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thank you !
>
> Best regards,
> Emem William
>
>
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