<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=""><div class="">First, I wish to applaud the appeals committee for the following paragraphs:</div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">
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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'" class="">The Committee notes that the suspension by the Board Chairperson of the activities
of the Committee created significant uncertainty on the standing, mandate, and
functionality of the Appeal Committee in the AFRINIC community.
</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'" class="">The Committee notes that while the Board has the mandate, as stated in the PDP
and in the Committee terms of reference, to constitute the Committee, the
Committee believes that, once the Committee is properly constituted by the Board,
it is not within the mandate of the Board to grant or deny permission for the
Committee to carry out its activities as stated in Section 1 of the resolution of the
Board. </span></p>
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</div></blockquote></div><div class="">What you say above is very much correct, but then you ride that to the most illogical</div><div class="">and absurd of conclusions:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">
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<div class="column"><p class=""><span style="font-size: 14.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'" class="">The Committee therefore observes that the resolution of the Board places undue
burden and undue uncertainty on the Committee as it currently stands with its
three members</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;" class="">The assessment of the Committee is then that the Committee, as constituted now
with 3 members as stated in the Board resolution, is unwilling and will not proceed
with the remaining appeals until it is reconstituted in full with 5 members as in its
terms of reference.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 14pt;" class=""> </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="">Is the appeals committee utterly unable to read plain english in the ToR?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(The boards failures in this regard are a matter for a separate email)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The ToR clearly state that the appeals committee is to continue to do its job and that the board</div><div class="">is not to interfere, expand, or reconstitute the committee while an appeal is in progress, so long</div><div class="">as that(those) appeal(s) do not drag on for an excessive amount of time:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(Specifically, I refer you to section 3.3.4 in addition to sections 3.1 and 3.4) of the ToR.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://afrinic.net/committees/election/appeal-committee-terms-of-reference-v2" class="">https://afrinic.net/committees/election/appeal-committee-terms-of-reference-v2</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Section IV of your memo makes it pretty clear that you understand there is an impact here</div><div class="">from your violation of the mandate contained in section 3.3.4.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m all for the appeal committee rejecting incorrect and invalid direction from the board, but the</div><div class="">time to do that was months ago when the board told you to stop. Refusing to start again now</div><div class="">is best summed up with the phrase that “two wrongs do not make a right”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 6, 2021, at 08:52 , Guylaine Laiyra <<a href="mailto:guylaine@afrinic.net" class="">guylaine@afrinic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear Community,<br class=""><br class="">On behalf of the Appeal Committee, I am directed to inform you that the committee has published a report pursuant to board resolution 202104.606.<br class=""><br class="">You may view the report at <a href="https://afrinic.net/policy/appeal-committee#appeals" class="">https://afrinic.net/policy/appeal-committee#appeals</a><br class=""><br class="">Thank you and Best Regards<br class=""><br class="">Guylaine<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">_________<br class="">Guylaine Laiyra (Mrs)<br class="">Senior Executive Assistant, AFRINIC Ltd.<br class="">t: +230 403 5122 | f: +230 466 6758 | tt: @afrinic | w: <a href="http://www.afrinic.net" class="">www.afrinic.net</a><br class=""><a href="http://facebook.com/afrinic" class="">facebook.com/afrinic</a> | <a href="http://flickr.com/afrinic" class="">flickr.com/afrinic</a> | <a href="http://youtube.com/afrinicmedia" class="">youtube.com/afrinicmedia</a><br class="">_______________________<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">RPD mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:RPD@afrinic.net" class="">RPD@afrinic.net</a><br class="">https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>