<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Speaking on my one capacity as a member of the community and sharing my personal view. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Indeed Serge's observation should be take in consideration for the future (or evaluate) and needs to be pointed out that this is the first time the end of term of both chairman's coincide with reelection. Clearly past Boards took pain to avoid the situation and that is why it never occurred <br><br>I also think that the suggestion that there is an issue with new Board members becoming chairman or vice chairman of Board is unfortunate. It is an attempt to pre-judge the quality and experience of elected members. <br><br>The claim that everything on the board is minuted rather complicates the discussion. <br>One would ask why does the board have such difficulty in publishing minutes requested by community if that is so.<br><br>Note also that, the Board votes on aspects of nomcom appointment members and output so the Board has oversight of nomcom no matter how little. <br><br>It would be expect that both chairs would recuse themselves and not participate in the discussions with good governance practices, as an example. The Board therefore has to appoint new chairs for that meeting which can't be good.<br><br></div><div>My 0.01 cents<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Hi ,<div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">We can however, state how things actually work. It seems that you are basing your judgement on how you think they work, not how they actually work.</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Is that way consolidating the trust we need in our community?</div><div>After the events we have gone through last days (no need to go back), it's our responsability to see how we can ensure that the community keep trust in the BOD.</div></div><div>I don't think it will be wise just to sweep it away.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind Regards.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 11:15 PM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com" target="_blank">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 5:58 PM, serge ilunga <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sergekbk@gmail.com" target="_blank">sergekbk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hello Andrew,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>We are a community and
each one of us can bring his stone to build it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I humbly think that
trust is critical to the survival of AfriNIC and the events we have gone
through last days has affected this critical pillar.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>We don't have so much
time to spend going back and forth on this but to prevent community members
being shouted down or misled, here is a comment :</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>A new board member can
be as good or better chairs depending on their involvement in Afrinic so
suggesting an issue exists with appointing new members as chairman is an
attempt to exclude and create class structure among board members . </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Irrespective of what
bylaws<span> </span>say the board and it's chairs
have oversight of all committees and all deliberations in practice even if it's
in a hands off manner.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div></span><div>As a former NomCom Chair, I can tell you that this is not the case. When I sat on the Nominating Committee, the Board had zero input into deliberations. The elections and Nominations processes are reported to the Board, but the Board does not provide "oversight".</div><span><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>A sitting chairman
with divided attention (board work and his election campaign) cannot be better
than a chairman focused on only board work.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>It is constructive
proposal to establish the governance committee and these discussions further
illustrate the need. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>We can't sweep it away.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div></span><div>We can however, state how things actually work. It seems that you are basing your judgement on how you think they work, not how they actually work.</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div>McTim<br></div></div><div>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel</div>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><b><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Serge ILUNGA KABWIKA</span></b><br></span></span></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><b><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif"></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><b><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Skype: sergekbk</span></b><br><b><span style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif">Cell: <a href="tel:%2B243814443160" value="+243814443160" target="_blank">+243814443160</a></span></b></span></span></div></div></div>
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