<div dir="auto"><div><div dir="auto">Dear comrade Abdulkarim,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Someone who served as cochairs and made several decisions, must know how it works and therefore must accept decision made by other entities like the AC or RC.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not all steps of processes require community input in implementation even though community put all of them in place.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There are times for us to show greatness and fair-play and contribute positively to the history...</div><div dir="auto">When we remove the personal thinking, AFRINIC and the community win.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">AFRINIC. en avant!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">--</div><div dir="auto">Arnaud </div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le jeu. 11 févr. 2021 à 16:00, ABDULKARIM OLOYEDE <<a href="mailto:oloyede.aa@unilorin.edu.ng">oloyede.aa@unilorin.edu.ng</a>> a écrit :<br></div><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"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dear AFRINIC PDWG</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I would like to thank the WG/community for your support up till this very moment. I appreciate the fact that you re-elected
me which shows that I was accepted by the majority of members within this community well beyond my first term. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">All I did was to do the job I volunteered
to do and took joint decisions which I believe we're in the best interest of the
community based on the publicly available information. I proudly say that no
section of the CPM was breached as confirmed by the recall committee itself by
having to invent the term “going against the Norms”. It’s unfortunate that such an important process had no community input. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I look forward to having a stable community and would do all within my power to support this community now and in the near future.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> I wish
everyone well.</p></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Dr. Abdulkarim Oloyede.</div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 6:40 AM Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 11, 2021, at 03:20 , Marcus K. G. Adomey <<a href="mailto:madomey@hotmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">madomey@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div>
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The Co-chairs appointment mechanism was by show of hands of those attending the face to face meeting where the elections were held until this got abused by filling the room with fake participants for the sake of voting.
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Using the rpd list as a voter register was never an option since the mailing list is open to anyone to participate in policy discussions and decisions are made by consensus.
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The Co-chair role is just a voluntary administrative role which requires a certain level of experience and most importantly acceptance by the working group.
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Please let us discourage this notion of “everything must be elections and voting” and give a chance to appointment of cochair by acclamation or consensus.
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If by miracle consensus can’t be reached on a candidate to serve, we defer to the membership to vote and select co-chair.
<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>It is not a miracle if we cannot reach consensus. It is an unfortunate fact of where we are today.</div><div><br></div><div>If by membership, you mean the membership of the PDWG, then a vote is exactly what most people are proposing.</div><div><br></div><div>If by membership you mean (as you state below) AfriNIC membership, then no… That’s not an acceptable alternative because…</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>
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Either through registered members ( the board ) or resources members or by the full membership.
<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Membership in AfriNIC is open to those that have resources, those that are elected to the board, and those that pay some significant annual fee.</div><div><br></div><div>Membership in the PDWG is open to all who have an interest in participating.</div><div><br></div><div>The PDP calls for the co-chairs to be selected by the PDWG, not the AfriNIC membership and there is good reason for this.</div><div><br></div><div>Please do not disenfranchise so much of the community so arbitrarily.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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