<div dir="auto">A quick poser, are we conscious of our cultural orientation or are we confident that what works in the other registries will work for AfriNIC on all issues.<div dir="auto">The matter of election in Africa is generally a sore thump, I was hoping that we will be working towards polishing the current election processes, I as against complicating with another modalities.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am seeing the current attempt, rather distracting. My take will be, we outline clearly the issues with the current election procedures and then fine tune them, taking into consideration our cultural biases. Coping or adopting the procedures of other registries in this case is not feasible.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Simply,</div><div dir="auto">Daniel</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 31, 2020 10:37 AM, "Noah" <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Owen,</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 9:07 AM Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Marcus,<div><br></div><div>This can vary from working group to working group and depends on the working group charter.</div><div><br></div><div>In most cases, yes, consensus determined by the remaining co-chair(s) is the primary and preferred method of electing a co-chair, however, failing that, the RIPE-NCC chair makes the decision and his/her decision is final.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Rather the RIPE chair.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br></div><div>So, unless you want to include a fall-back where the Chairman of the Board appoints a WG co-chair when a consensus isn’t reached, I’d say that the proposed mechanism is a truly bad idea.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am not sure if you took time to read through the proposal entirely, link [1] below, but just to note that the fallback plan to the consensus based approach you are referring too is already covered in the policy proposal as written. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Please refer to proposal's section <b>3.3.3. Appointment of PDWG co-chairs</b> which covers the entire process.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br></div><div>Since I don’t think that having the chairman of the AfriNIC board appointing RPD co-chairs, I will say that the proposed mechanism is a truly bad idea.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Section 3.3.3 of the proposal talks about the mandate of the remaining Chair or Co-Chair in the process, if you will, before even the AfriNIC board comes into play.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Noah</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://www.afrinic.net/policy/proposals/2020-gen-002-d1#proposal" target="_blank">https://www.afrinic.net/<wbr>policy/proposals/2020-gen-002-<wbr>d1#proposal</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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