<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 6, 2019, at 00:09 , Iyedi Goma <<a href="mailto:iyedigoma@gmail.com" class="">iyedigoma@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dear community,</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Veuillez trouvez la version française ci dessous.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The nomination committee received a question about the process for the election of two PDWG co-chairs as one of the open seats is for a two-year team and the other open seat is for a one-year term. The nomination committee contacted the Afrinic elections committee to request the process document for the elections. The nomination committee was informed that there isn’t any documented process for the election of two PDWG co-chairs.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The nomination committee recommends that the process for the election of the two PDWG co-chairs should be documented so that the working group understand how the process works.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">There were nine nominations for the two the PDWG co-chair seats. After reviewing the nominations, the nomination committee found that there only four candidates who submitted the required information before the endtime. The nomination committee was contacted by four other nominees as their names did not appear in the announcement which was sent to the RPD mailing list.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>When did the nominating committee request the “required information” from the candidates and when was this “end time”?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The charge leveled by Abdulkarim is that the committee sent out a request from an undocumented email address during a muslim holiday on a Sunday requesting that the information be provided no later than Monday.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If that’s true, I’d argue that the timing of the request and the end time is quite suspect and not a legitimate process.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The nomination committee would like to solicit the feedback of the PDWG on the above by Friday 7 of June at 23:59 UTC</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Despite the tight timeline offered, here is my feedback:</div><div><br class=""></div>You are doing yourself no favors in this circumstance setting a similarly tight deadline for community feedback (approximately 17 hours).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Is this really what we can expect from the nominating committee? This is no way to conduct an election.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>A candidate should be given at least 7 days to respond to an urgent request from the nominating committee. A request which should have been made at the beginning of the process should allow at least 30 days for a response.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Allowing less than 24 hours is absurd.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Cher membre de la communauté</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Le comité de nomination avait reçu une question d’un membre de la communauté lors d’une session de sensibilisation sur le processus de répartition des deux postes de co-présidence pour le PDWG. Il est important de souligner que les deux mandatures ne possèdent pas la même durée, un poste pour une année et une seconde pour deux années, la question est celle de savoir comment on attribue les postes à chacun des postulants.</span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Au regard de l'importance de la question le comité de nomination avait contacté AFRINIC pour comprendre s’il y avait des documents qui soutenaient ledit processus. Ce que nous avons compris de la réponse du comité d’ élection qu il existe pas de procédure écrite proprement dite.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Le comité de nomination recommande fortement que le processus électoral soit rédigé et validé afin de faciliter la tâche du groupe de travail.</span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">En ce qui concerne les candidatures pour les élections de la co-présidence du PDWG , le comité de nomination avait reçu neuf prétendus candidatures. Après la phase de collecte d'information supplémentaire nous avons reçus que quatres dossiers de candidatures. Après la publication des candidatures le comité de nomination a été contacté par quatre des autres prétendus et ils ont soumis leur dossiers.</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Dans le souci de transparence et d’équité nous souhaitons solliciter l’avis du PDWG sur les éléments évoqués. Le comité de nomination souhaiterait avoir votre retour d’ici ce vendredi 7 juin à 23h59 TUC.</span></div><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Serge-Parfait Goma</span></div><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Afrinic 2019 Nomcom Chair</span></div></div>
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