<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Hello Andrew,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The minutes(*) of the PPM of AFRINIC-28 was published by co-chairs as mandated by the PDP. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The cochair election sections (6.1) read:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">[....]</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"The Elections Committee asked for a show of hands for those in favor, and those not in favor of Mark Elkins’ candidature. After a show of hands, there were 22 in favor and 56 not in favor of Mark’s candidature.</div><div dir="auto">NomCom Chair called for nominations from the floor to fill the empty PDWG co-chair seat.</div><div dir="auto">There were suggestions that the position be filled by a temporary co-chair until there’s another nominations process to find a replacement co-chair.</div><div dir="auto">Sami Salih (the outgoing co-chair) offered to continue as co-chair till there is a process in future to find a new co-chair.</div><div dir="auto">Delegates were asked if there is support for Sami to continue as co-chair till the next scheduled nominations period. There was strong support to have Sami continue – and he was therefore tasked to serve as temporary co-chair until the next scheduled nominations season."</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Practices at AFRINIC is that Elections are held mostly during the community meeting coupled with AGMM. So it is not surprising to see that the PDWG admin page(**) lists Sami as cochair with term June2016 - June2019. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This probably explains why an election process was not triggered for the AFRINIC-29.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Nobody raised an alarm when the 77 days before election day passed (15 September 2018) and there was no nomination process.Furthermore, at the beginning of the PPM in Hammamet, there was no objection to Sami chairing the meeting.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Making all these noises, and challenging Sami right to operate at the meeting and moving on, just because Co-chairs made a decision one does not like is not responsible. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Decency would have required the separation of issues appropriately handling them through other mechanisms, which would normally be more consensual with interest in conflict resolution an in an appealing manner . </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hope this helps</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Komi</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"> </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">(*) <a href="https://www.afrinic.net/policy/development-working-group/ppm-afrinic-28">https://www.afrinic.net/policy/development-working-group/ppm-afrinic-28</a></div><div dir="auto">(**)<a href="https://www.afrinic.net/policy/development-working-group#admin">https://www.afrinic.net/policy/development-working-group#admin</a></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Le mar. 4 déc. 2018 à 4:52 PM, Andrew Alston <<a href="mailto:Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com">Andrew.Alston@liquidtelecom.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi All,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I want to clarify something – to be very sure.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">If I am correct – there was no election of a PDP co-chair in Tunisia. Can someone please confirm that? Because if there was no election – we only have ONE chair at the moment – and Sami’s status as a co-chair
has lapsed and he cannot adjudicate on consensus.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I say this – because in Dakar – and for those of you that were not there, please see
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTApl4QHfY" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWTApl4QHfY</a> at about 13 minutes in, Sami’s position was granted as interim only – and only for the following 6 months until the next PDP.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">So – unless there was an election called – and video evidence of this – Sami is no longer eligible to act in the position of co-chair – since his mandate was not granted by this community on the floor of a
meeting, and as per the legal counsel at the Dakar meeting – any position into which Sami entered – was only valid until the November meeting, and the co-chair goes on, on record on the microphone to further state that Sami was only appointed “Until the next
PDP meeting”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sami – on that note, thank you for your service as the interim co-chair over the preceeding 6 months.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Andrew<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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