<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="">Dear Yakmut,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If the candidates in question did not have the competency to fill out an application form with one providing fake nominator info and others with no seconders, why should the community trust them to handle the sensitive duties of a Co-chair which include moderating the RPD list, proof reading, crossing Ts and dotting Is on policy documents, communicating with the board, et cetera?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are you suggesting that we ignore the candidates who took the time to do their due diligence, fill out the applications with appropriate info, and submit them on time?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To Lucilla and the others seeking some form of leniency, in what universe has an examiner ever allowed a test taker to correct their answers after their test scripts have been graded and returned?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Honestly, it is this cavalier attitude from some members and the former Co-chairs that has the RPD in a tail-spin. This is the Resource Policy Discussion list not Twitter or Facebook. A tool whose output is essential to the administration of number resources in the region. Let us all treat it with the respect it deserves.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class="">Murungi Daniel</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 10 Apr 2021, at 9:20 AM, Daniel Yakmut via RPD <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" class="">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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;" class="">…… More so, I want to observe some candidates were practically muscled out of the race through technicalities to prepare way for the two “confirmed persons". Again, I hope we can sustain our actions in the future. I insist that we are coming out of this process with inconsistencies.</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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;" class=""> Simply</p><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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;" class="">Daniel<br class=""></p></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>