<div><div dir="auto">Hello all, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Indeed at these difficult times, the AFRINIC Organization is doing all and everything possible in good faith to resolve the issues and progress towards the future and longevity of the organization. </div><div dir="auto">Nonetheless, there has been a vast and growing number of questionable issues which need an urgent attention. I am affirmative when I say that the statement “AFRINIC is a community-driven organization with openness principles babe bottom-up processes...” should be shown in the way things are done and conducted within the organization and the community as well and not just coming up frequently in emails. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Additionally, I don’t think the board should add extra people to the Appeal Committee now; that would be an abuse of power if it’s not done following the due process. They should be allowed to do their work. Sometimes the questionable attitudes and the uncertainty that has engulfed the organization makes it easy to doubt the functionality of organization and the principles at which it is said to be constructed upon. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elvis</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 3:05 Haruna Umar Adoga <<a href="mailto:hartek66@gmail.com">hartek66@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">+1 Fernando. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 16:32, Fernando Frediani <<a href="mailto:fhfrediani@gmail.com" target="_blank">fhfrediani@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<p>Hello Eddy</p>
<p>It is admirable the clarity and politeness of your messages. I
believe most people trust you are doing everything you are doing
during these difficult times for PDWG in good faith to get things
back on track again.</p>
<p>However I cannot be silent about the growing number of
questionable attitudes the Board has been taking in the believe
they have the power to sort out all these matters. If they are
receiving exotic legal counseling from a single person and taking
it as absolute truth just because the person is a "licensed person
to do that job" and this only worse the view many are having about
the Board intentions towards PDWG.<br>
</p>
<p>How come the Board believe they can regulate this via the ToR ?
This is a question for the PDWG to adjust the CPM and make it more
clear, but not the Board.<br>
All Board can do is to interpret the CPM about the provisions for
the Appeal Committee, and if they said already that in their
interpretation is that Committee can only work with all 5 members
then the only thing that remains for them to do is to select 2 new
people to fill the vacant positions. But they cannot not create
new rules for it. That must be done exclusively by PDWG under the
due process amending the CPM where necessary.<br>
What if soon PDWG chooses to change the CPM and that conflicts
with what is in the ToR ? What will worth more ?<br>
</p>
<p>I urge the Board members to stop doing questionable actions like
this and perhaps review the person who is giving these legal
counseling or get someonelese's view on such difficult and complex
subjects in order to let PDWG do its mission.</p></div><div>
<p>Fernando<br>
</p>
<div>On 15/04/2021 12:10, Eddy Kayihura
wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Dear
Colleagues,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">I
would like to make a few announcements and share a
perspective on what we</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">,</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">
at AFRINIC</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">,</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">
have been observing for some time.</span><br>
<br>
<u></u><u></u></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" type="1" start="1">
<li style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
onboarding of the Co-chairs has started and is progressing
well. It is planned to conclude mid next week and please
expect a communication from them late next week.<u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Board
passed a resolution yesterday to address the Appeal
Committee ToR challenge and let the committee to operate
with the three remaining members. <a href="https://afrinic.net/board/meeting/2021#r606" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">(Resolution
202104.606)</span></a><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">It
is with deep concern that I read the email from Dr
Abdulkarim Oloyede including a personal attack on the
honesty and integrity of our Policy Liaison colleagues and I
believe an apology is in order.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The
8th point of the Code of Conduct (VIII. Act in the best
interests of the AFRINIC community at all times.) has
generally been overlooked and that I wish to emphasize it
with an illustrative fictive story.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Three
friends have invested together into a restaurant</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US"> business</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">.
They hired a manager, who recruited a team to provide
services in the new restaurant that is successful very
quickly. After some time, one of the shareholders who often
eats at the restaurant starts throwing food on the floor,
breaking windows and glasses at times and eventually slaps
an employee.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">I
guess that I do not need to go further in my story and you
understand what I am picturing here. We, at AFRINIC, are
dedicated to serve you with the utmost excellence, passion
and integrity.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">As
much as AFRINIC is a community-driven organization with
openness principles and bottom-up processes, for a smooth
running of our proceedings we all ought to abide by a basic
code of conduct which is currently being </span><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2021-March/004024.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">reviewed</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">
and your contributions are welcome.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We
are all human and may err at times and I would like to
remind you that justified complaints about staff or even
myself can either be channelled through </span><a href="mailto:ceo@afrinic.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">ceo@afrinic.net</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">
or through the whistleblower portal at: </span><a href="https://www.afrinic.net/whistleblowing" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.afrinic.net/whistleblowing</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">.
The Board has visibility on the report about tickets raised
through the external whistleblower system.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">We
have observed lately different levels of breach of code of
conduct on the rpd list and remained silent for the sake of
solving the unprecedented situation in which we found
ourselves. However, this one is too loud for us to ignore
it.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">For
sanity’s sake, I call upon the Co-chairs to deal with the
Code of Conduct matter with the seriousness it requires.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Regards, </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Eddy
Kayihura</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">CEO
AFRINIC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> ……………………………………………….</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Chers
collègues,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">J'aimerais
faire quelques annonces et partager une perspective sur ce
que nous observons sur la liste RPD depuis un certain temps.</span><br>
<br>
<u></u><u></u></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" type="1" start="1">
<li style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">L'intégration
des coprésidents a commencé et progresse bien. Il est
prévu qu'il se termine au milieu de la semaine prochaine
et nous attendons une communication de leur part à la fin
de la semaine prochaine.<u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></li>
<li style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Le
conseil d'administration a adopté hier une résolution
visant à ce que le comité d'appel fonctionne avec les
trois membres restants. <a href="https://afrinic.net/board/meeting/2021#r606" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">(Resolution
202104.606)</span></a><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u><u style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></u></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">C'est
avec une profonde préoccupation que j'ai lu le courriel du
Dr Abdulkarim Oloyede, qui contenait une attaque personnelle
contre l'honnêteté et l'intégrité de nos collègues du Policy
Liaison team.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">
<span lang="FR" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Je pense que ce mail requiet des excuses de
sa part.</span></span><span lang="FR"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Le
huitième point du Code de conduite (VIII. Act in the best
interests of the AFRINIC community at all times) a
généralement été négligé et je souhaite l'illustrer à
travers une histoire fictive.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Trois
amis ont investi ensemble dans un restaurant. Ils ont engagé
un manager, qui a recruté une équipe pour fournir des
services dans le nouveau restaurant qui connaît un succès
très rapide. Au bout d'un certain temps, l'un des
actionnaires, qui mange souvent au restaurant, commence à
jeter de la nourriture par terre, à briser parfois des
vitres et des verres et finit par gifler un employé.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Je
suppose que je n'ai pas besoin d'aller plus loin dans mon
histoire et que vous comprenez mon dessin. A AFRINIC, nous
sommes engagés à vous servir avec excellence, passion et
intégrité.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Bien
qu’AFRINIC soit une organisation à caractère communautaire,
avec des principes d'openness et des processus ascendants,
pour le bon déroulement de nos activités, nous devrions tous
nous conformer à un code de conduite de base qui est
actuellement en cours de </span><a href="https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/2021-March/004024.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">révision
</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">et
vos contributions sont les bienvenues.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Nous
sommes tous humains et nous pouvons parfois commettre des
erreurs. Je tiens à vous rappeler que les plaintes
justifiées à l'encontre du personnel ou même de moi-même
peuvent être transmises à <a href="mailto:ceo@afrinic.net" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">ceo@afrinic.net</a> ou au travers
du portail whistleblower à l'adresse suivante : <a href="https://www.afrinic.net/whistleblowing" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">https://www.afrinic.net/whistleblowing</a>.
Le conseil d'administration a une visibilité sur le rapport
concernant les tickets soulevés par le système de
dénonciation externe.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Nous
avons observé dernièrement différents niveaux de violation
du code de conduite sur la liste des RPD et nous avons gardé
le silence afin de résoudre la situation sans précédent dans
laquelle nous nous trouvions. Cependant, celle-ci crie trop
fort pour que nous puissions l'ignorer.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">En
toute conscience, je demande aux co</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black" lang="FR">-</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">présidents
de traiter la question du code de conduite avec le sérieux
qu'elle requiert.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Cordialement, </span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-MU"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Eddy
Kayihura</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Directeur
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black" lang="EN-US">G</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">énéral
d'AFRINIC</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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