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font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 12, 2021, at 6:17 PM, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">How about instead, we follow the rules as you request and have the PDWG select interim co-chairs until the next election?<br class=""><br class="">Owen<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><div>The PDWG makes decision by consensus and should select interim co-chair(s) easily if behaving as a functional WG</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The WG has been spending valuable time and energy in arguing and should have spent the time to select co-chairs via a call of experienced volunteers capable of immediately acting and select the best among them.</div><div>We give it a trial and fall back to board?</div></div><div><br class=""></div><div>—</div><div>Gregoire</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 12, 2021, at 1:25 PM, Gregoire EHOUMI via RPD <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" class="">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">I can see through this post recall discussions, the signs of the usual argumentation to non conclusive discussions and disregard to the existing rules.<br class=""><br class="">I wish we learnt from past and that the desire to serve this community and to make AFRINIC assume its important role, inspires in us the spirit of practicalities, compromise and consensus.<br class=""><br class="">Let’s have the board appoint an interim cochair and as voting is being considered, starting from next AFRINIC meeting, we organize election by ranking voting for the AFRINIC membership.<br class=""><br class="">We then free the WG from voting and it can focus on the policy development by consensus.<br class=""><br class="">Best regards,<br class="">Gregoire<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">RPD mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" class="">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>