<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 Feb 15, 2021, at 04:57 , Marcus K. G. Adomey <<a href="mailto:madomey@hotmail.com" class="">madomey@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">Hi Owen,</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><b class="">You wrote (</b><i class="">in italics</i><b class="">)</b></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""><i class="">Yes, and I’m quite certain numerous people, including John Curran himself could verify that I have long sought to change that fact and open the election of the AC to the broader community. I do not hold ARIN up as an example of perfection. It is a well functioning RIR with a vibrant and active community and a generally well functioning and collegial policy development process and community, but that does not mean that I necessarily agree with everything or feel that everything there is an ideal way to function.</i></span><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div style="margin: 0px;" class=""><i class="">Are you arguing that because I come from a region where the election of the leadership is flawed in the way you propose that I’m somehow expected to think that AFRINIC should embrace the same flawed process?</i></div><span style="margin: 0px;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="">The current AC election mechanism is flawed according to you and I am sure there are others with different opinion on this. It has not been changed so far, does not prevent ARIN from being a well functioning RIR as you described.</div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You have not succeeded in convincing the ARIN community to change the AC election process, but you lived with it and accepted to be elected by this flawed process to serve as AC member.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I have not convinced the ARIN board to change the AC election process. Since it is not up to the community, I have not attempted to convince the community.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>We all function in a variety of imperfect situations throughout our lives. I’m not sure how that is relevant here.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""><div class="">There is no perfect solution and each region is supposed to adopt what suits the best its context and obligation as RIR and adapt as it goes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As you can see from this comparison</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.apnic.net/community/participate/sigs/sig-guidelines/chair-elections/rir-comparison-table/" id="LPlnk" class="">https://www.apnic.net/community/participate/sigs/sig-guidelines/chair-elections/rir-comparison-table/</a></div><div class="_EReadonly_1 _EType_OWALinkPreview _Entity _EId_OWALinkPreview"><div id="LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXBuaWMubmV0L2NvbW11bml0eS9wYXJ0aWNpcGF0ZS9zaWdzL3NpZy1ndWlkZWxpbmVzL2NoYWlyLWVsZWN0aW9ucy9yaXItY29tcGFyaXNvbi10YWJsZS8." class="LPBorder837976" style="width: 800px; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 16px; position: relative; max-width: 800px; min-width: 424px;"><table id="LPContainer837976" role="presentation" style="padding: 12px 36px 12px 12px; width: 750px; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-left-radius: 2px; border-top-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-right-radius: 2px; border-bottom-left-radius: 2px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr valign="top" style="border-spacing: 0px;" class=""><td class=""><div id="LPImageContainer837976" style="position: relative; margin-right: 12px; height: 126px; overflow: hidden; width: 240px;" class=""><a target="_blank" id="LPImageAnchor837976" href="https://www.apnic.net/community/participate/sigs/sig-guidelines/chair-elections/rir-comparison-table/" class=""><img id="LPThumbnailImageId837976" alt="" height="126" width="240" src="https://www.apnic.net/facebook-og.png" style="display: block;" class=""></a></div></td><td style="width: 488px;" class=""><div id="LPTitle837976" style="font-size: 21px; font-weight: 300; margin-right: 8px; font-family: wf_segoe-ui_light, "Segoe UI Light", "Segoe WP Light", "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px;" class=""><a target="_blank" id="LPUrlAnchor837976" href="https://www.apnic.net/community/participate/sigs/sig-guidelines/chair-elections/rir-comparison-table/" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--themePrimary);" class="">RIR Comparison Table – APNIC</a></div><div id="LPDescription837976" style="font-size: 14px; max-height: 100px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-right: 8px; overflow: hidden;" class="">ARIN Advisory Council. Documentation (NOTE: The ARIN AC is a substantially different body than the SIG/WG Chairs in other regions.); Term: The 15 members of the ARIN AC serve three-year terms. Nomination: A NomCom of seven representatives guides the nomination process.</div><div id="LPMetadata837976" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(166, 166, 166); font-family: wf_segoe-ui_normal, "Segoe UI", "Segoe WP", Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.apnic.net/" class="">www.apnic.net</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> ⁃ One RIR elects AC members by general membership</div><div class=""> ⁃ One RIR appoints co-chairs by consensus<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div class=""> ⁃ One RIR selects cochairs by voting of the policy working group and approves the election results via consensus and if failed to reach consensus, fallback to board...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>What I am suggesting is that you give chance for this region to adopt something which has not created a drama at ARIN and is considered as possible solution to a recurrent problem this region is having.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>And I am saying that I oppose it here just as I have opposed it in the ARIN region for the same reasons.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>This doesn’t prevent it from happening here any more than it has prevented it in the ARIN region.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I am one vote. One person. I do not single-handedly control the process here any more than I control the process in the ARIN region as you point out above.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Why is it that you seek to silence my opposition?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>