<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 16, 2021, at 05:22 , Arnaud AMELINA <<a href="mailto:amelnaud@gmail.com" class="">amelnaud@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Owen,</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">1st: How would the cochairs send a WG discussions report and ratification request to board without Cc’ing the rpd list?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">This constitutes a clear violation of the transparency principle and long standing practices of the WG...( report to board always made public)</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I’ve been on this list for a long time… I don’t recall any of the co-chair requests to the board for ratification being sent to this list, yet you say this has always happened?</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Is my memory so faulty?</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">2nd: how come board would not have received a mail sent by cochairs?</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I don’t know why they didn’t receive it. If you feel this is a relevant question, then by all means, please pursue whatever investigation you feel is necessary with the appropriate authorities.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">And you are now asking former cochairs to resend the report and copied the list?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yes, I do. What other action would be appropriate under such circumstance?</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Did you forget the saga of the said inter-transfer policy, the staff analysis on the board prerogatives?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>No, but I also do not forget the public discussion and the determination of the co-chairs. I have not made any attempt to influence what the board will do with the correspondence once they receive it, merely asked that it be resent to them and to the community so that it can be verified to have been received and then dealt with appropriately.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Forgot the legal advice on the matter? </div><div dir="auto" class=""><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2020/012121.html" class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2020/012121.html</a></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>No, I have not forgotten that, either. Again, I have not called for the board to take any specific action with respect to either policy, but I do not see any reason that should preclude a resending of the correspondence.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">May this convince those who are still hesitant to see some of your bad motives and connivance as you never supported that the “vaporware” to become a vibrant RIR for a continent of great people.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>This borders on ad hominem, sir and is not an accurate or valid representation of my statements or my feelings towards AFRINIC and the AFRINIC community.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Anyone who sees bad motives behind what I have done here is mistaken in their perceptions.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>