Benjamin,

Let’s see – you have a public document – a document that is clearly and totally 
in the public domain.  You have an individual who was a named party in that 
document – who chose to share that document.  You have an active attempt by the 
board to sanction that individual for engaging with the community who he is 
meant to serve.  You have a statement by the chair of the board that the CEO 
does not serve the community but instead serves the board.

Effectively – you have a board attempting to censor the CEO from engaging with 
this community – in a bottom up organization that by legal representation 
during the IANA transition committed to the concepts of self determination of 
members and transparency and bottom up approach.


  1.  That constitutes micro-management
  2.  In constitutes a total and utter failure of the board to adhere to the 
principles sworn to in the foundation of the organization in the original ICP2
  3.  It shows a total disregard for the obligations set out in section 3 of 
the bylaws to keep members informed of all things pertinent to the company

What I see here – is nothing short of disgraceful – and I find it absolutely 
shocking that any board member who has a shred of ethics – would not have 
resigned in light of what is in those documents.  It is a slap in the face of 
this community – and the entire global RIR system – and I am disgusted and 
appalled.  I would say to Serge as a starting point – if you have no shame – 
resign – now.  I would say to the chair for your abject failure – resign – now. 
 I would say to every member who consented to the final sections of that 
document – resign – now.

Andrew


From: Benjamin Ledoh <benjamin.le...@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 28 May 2019 15:01
To: Sander Steffann <san...@steffann.nl>
Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC <community-discuss@afrinic.net>
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Gratitude

Dear Sander,

In your email to the community, you wrote

> I am surprised at the level of micro-management that CEO Alan Barrett has to 
> deal with.

I have read the minutes and I could not see any trace that is related to 
“micro-management”. Rather the discussion revolved around the procedure to 
publish the judgement, who should publish the judgement, and the issue of NDA.

Could you please show me in the minutes the part that is dealing with the 
micro-management?

Thank you,


Benjiloh

On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 12:50 PM Sander Steffann 
<san...@steffann.nl<mailto:san...@steffann.nl>> wrote:
Hello,

I was just reading the board minutes at 
https://www.afrinic.net/ast/pdf/2019-minutes/20190305-minutes.pdf<https://www.afrinic.net/ast/pdf/2019-minutes/20190305-minutes.pdf>
 and I am surprised at the level of micro-management that CEO Alan Barrett has 
to deal with. In those minutes both Alan and Seun Ojedeji seem to be 
reprimanded for being open and transparent to this community. The summary of 
those minutes show how the board has made it explicitly clear that the CEO is 
to have no responsibility anymore towards this community.

Therefore I would like to explicitly and publicly express my gratitude to both 
Alan and Seun for their efforts to keep this community involved in Afrinic 
matters in an open and transparent way. I feel this is a strong requirement for 
keeping Afrinic respected and supported by both its members and its community.

Sincerely,
Sander

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