<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></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 Apr 10, 2021, at 23:20 , Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" class="">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:04 PM Owen DeLong via RPD <<a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" class="">rpd@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br class="">
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> On Apr 10, 2021, at 10:20 , <a href="mailto:chair@afrinic.net" target="_blank" class="">chair@afrinic.net</a> wrote:<br class="">
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> Dear Policy Development Working Group,<br class="">
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> The Board of Directors would like to congratulate the Policy Development Working Group (PDWG) on taking a consensus-based approach for the selection of PDWG co-Chairs.<br class="">
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> The Board considered the provisions of the Consolidated Policy Manual with respect to the selection of PDWG co-Chairs and the staggered terms for the PDWG co-Chairs. The Board would like to confirm its approval, as an exceptional measure, to have Mr Vincent Ngundi and Mr Darwin da Costa complete the term of the last Co-Chairs and further serve a duration required to make a 2 year and 1 year term respectively.<br class="">
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Excuse me, but where in the CPM or the bylaws did the board get the authority to approve or deny this at all?<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Actually provision 11.2 of the AFRINIC Bylaws gives the AFRINIC Board the powers to call a Public Policy Meeting which is attended by Afrinic resource members and anyone interested in the Number Resources Management policy in which case the PDWG.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Noah </div></div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Which has exactly nothing to do with the board approving the election of the co-chairs by the PDWG.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>