<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><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><b style="font-weight:normal" class=""><br class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The eligibility criteria that the community had agreed on for the selection of the current co-chairs in 2021 are as follows:-</span></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: upper-alpha; font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" aria-level="1" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The intended volunteer must be well conversant with AFRINIC’s consensus-driven ecosystem, including its Policy Development Process; practical understanding of RFC 7282 is required.</span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: upper-alpha; font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" aria-level="1" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The intended volunteer must be accessible and make himself or herself available to follow and moderate all policy proposal discussions on AFRINIC’s rpd mailing list as well as attending AFRINIC Public Policy Meetings whenever they are held (Note: All logistical assistance will be provided by AFRINIC);</span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: upper-alpha; font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" aria-level="1" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The intended volunteer must have at least 3 years of sufficient past and active participative experience on either AFRINIC’s or any other RIR’s policy development mailing list;</span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: upper-alpha; font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" aria-level="1" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The Intended volunteer must have participated in at least two (2) AFRINIC Public Policy Meetings (face-to-face or virtual) in the past three (3) years;</span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: upper-alpha; font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" aria-level="1" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The intended volunteer must have sufficient capability of understanding and interpreting the contents of AFRINIC’s Consolidated Policy Manual;</span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: upper-alpha; font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" aria-level="1" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The intended volunteer must be able to demonstrate good technical knowledge and understanding of the Internet ecosystem. Having 3 to 5 years of Internet Protocol related technical experience would be an advantage</span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: upper-alpha; font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" aria-level="1" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The intended volunteer should not be the author of any of the policy proposals currently under discussion and if need be, or agree to recuse oneself as author/co-author of any policy proposals under discussion, or simply recuse oneself from the position as Co-Chairs pending step down temporarily as co-chair when his or her proposal being is being discussed.</span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: upper-alpha; font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" aria-level="1" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The intended volunteer must either reside within or originate from AFRINIC’s service region;</span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: upper-alpha; font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" aria-level="1" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The intended volunteer must be able to demonstrate excellent presentation and communication skills. </span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: upper-alpha; font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" aria-level="1" class=""><div style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The intended volunteer must be endorsed and/or nominated by a registered contact of an AFRINIC Resource Member</span></div></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: upper-alpha; font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" aria-level="1" class=""><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;background-color:#ffffff;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:4pt" role="presentation" class=""><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">The intended volunteer must not be a staff of AFRINIC or any other Regional Internet Registry (RIR)</span></p></li></ol></b></font></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I agree that the history is worth a read.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FWIW, I continue to question the following:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A: Who and how will this be judged in a candidate?</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>C: Who decides what constitutes “sufficient” or “active”? What is the definition of these terms in this context?</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>E: Same questions as C.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>F: What kind of advantage? Do they get some extra votes added to their tally? What does this criteria mean in practical application?</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>G: This is a long way of saying “The candidate should recuse himself from any conflicts of interest.” The need to spell this out speaks volumes about</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>the current situations in AFRINIC.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>H: Does this mean that every person in the US of African descent is eligible as PDWG co-chair? One can make an anthropological argument that all human</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>kind “originated from” AFRINIC’s service region. What is the actual intended meaning here? Let us please plainly say what we mean. After all, failure</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>to do so (and/or failure to follow what we said) is a key factor in multiple current litigations.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I: Please define “excellent” in this context.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>J: This violates the CPM.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Further, calling this person “the intended volunteer” is absurd. These are “candidates” for an elected position (or at least nominees). We should refer to them as such (either candidates or nominees).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>