+1 Alain. God bless you sir! Timothy On 7 Jul 2016 10:29 p.m., "ALAIN AINA" <aal...@trstech.net> wrote:
> Hello SM > > I beg. Lets stop this discussion about to whom AFRINIC belong to, playing > with “members" and "non members", invoking RSA and AFRINIC Ltd, etc…. > We have come a long way to this community driven organisation which role > is to serve the AFRICAN Internet community by distributing numbers > ressources and beyond. Like other RIRs, the AfriNIC organisational > structure has been set to encourage a bottom-up self governance management > model in which community in general, members, the Board of Directors > elected by these members have a role and a say. > > I would invite all of us to read : > > - The 1997 AFRINIC proposal > https://www.isoc.org/inet97/ans97/afrinic.htm > > - The IANA report on AFRNIC accreditation > https://www.iana.org/reports/2005/afrinic-report-08apr2005.html > > - AFRINIC vision, mission, cores values and success factors > http://www.afrinic.net/en/about/origins > > I would also suggest that we plan a session on AFRINIC History during > AFRINC-25 like we had AF* history at AIS2016 > > Hope this helps > > —Alain > > > > > > > > On Jul 7, 2016, at 3:55 PM, sm+afri...@elandsys.com wrote: > > > > Hi Noah, Badru, > > At 09:22 06-07-2016, Noah wrote: > >> Who elects the directors, do they elect themselves? > > > > The directors of Afrinic Ltd are elected by the members of Afrinic Ltd. > > > >> Whose interests do they serve? > > > > One of the powers of the directors of the company is to "determine the > guidelines for the allocation of address space to members in line with the > member driven Policy Development Process". > > > >> What where they before they became directors? > > > > The directors were members of the company. > > > >> Are they now so special now all over sudden and cant consult the same > community "resource members + non" who elected them? [1] > > > > The "non" (in the above) does not elect the directors. Section 6(d) of > the RSA states that the members of Afrinic Ltd will follow the policies > adopted by this group and follow global policies. Membership fees, for > example, are not set through policies which are adopted by this group. > Membership fees is usually a matter discussed between the members who pay > those fees. A member usually does not vote for a director if the member is > dissatisfied with the decisions taken by the director. That is the > accountability angle. > > > > At 00:07 07-07-2016, Badru Ntege wrote: > >> The company belongs to the community at large under the custody of > current members who then elect a board. It should never be seen as a top > down issue. > > > > If the company belongs to this group there would be a document about > that. The only "agreement" up to now is the one where the company agrees > that its members will follow the policies adopted by this group. There is > a discussion about that in the mailing list archives. > > > > Regards, > > S. Moonesamy > > > > _______________________________________________ > > RPD mailing list > > r...@afrinic.net > > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd > > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > Community-Discuss@afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss >
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