This is really very ugly. Are we really crazy to believe that the community is not able to decide on their own?
I’ve seen a similar situation in other regions and this is outside of the code of conduct (written or not), or the elections proccesses. There are several points here: Have the emails of the recipients of this message been legally “acquired”, I mean with a previous and explicit consent, or have they been “collected” from people participating in mail exploders? In many countries, collecting emails from people is against law. Have the recipients of those emails, authorized explicitly to get “publicity about candidates” ? If not, this is just one more way of spam, again, may be against law in many countries. Has the elections process authorized to do advertising of candidates outside of the formal processes? Has the elections process authorized other committee members to use their “position” as a way to convince the community about whom to vote? I think there must be an explicit prohibition for doing all this and if anyone does it, it needs to be possible to punish him/her (and possible the involved candidates) with several years impossibility to be part of board, committees, or participate as candidate in any kind of elections. Regards, Jordi @jordipalet El 3/7/19 13:18, "Ahmed Fadl" <ahmed.f...@57357.org> escribió: Hi Wafa, Thanks for your email. I, among other members of AFRINIC in Egypt, received the following email from you many times. I wondered at that time why should I vote for these candidates specially for those in Eastern and Southern regions while each one was the sole candidate in his region. I quote this from your email "Ladies and Gentlemen, in the context of our strategy ...." what is your strategy and who are you ? If you are talking about biasing the community, So, do you consider your email as a "member of the appeal committee; ASO / AC excom member and Ex Chair of Governance Committee '(GC) at AFRINIC." fall under what ? I sent this mail many time but I don’t know why I can’t find this mail on community Thanks, Ahmed Fadl From: wafa Dahmani [mailto:wafatn7...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 1:05 PM To: wafa Dahmani <wafatn7...@gmail.com> Subject: AFRINIC Borad Elections Dear, My name is Wafa Dahmani from Tunisia, an active member of the African community and more specifically AFRINIC: member of the appeal committee; ASO / AC excom member and Ex Chair of Governance Committee '(GC) at AFRINIC. I contact you to solicit your votes for the following candidates: Board of Directors: North Africa (seat 1) · Habin Youssef West Africa (seat 2) · Ly Ousmane South Africa (seat 5) · Mpisane Vika William East Africa (seat 6) · Nkusi Robert Ford Non-regional (seat 7) · Eshun Benjamin Adzenyamebeye Election Number Resource Organization Number Council · Mustapha Ben Jemaa Election Policy Development Working Group · Komi Elitcha · Sami Hassan Election Governance Committee · Daniel Nanghaka Ladies and Gentlemen, in the context of our strategy and in order to preserve AFRINIC's interests for Africa and to be able to choose the right candidates for North Africa in the long term, it is desirable to join all our efforts and vote for these candidates who presents the best choice for an adequate board the de facto vote online through your interface with AFRINIC is very simple for all categories except the policy development Working group where we want you to mobilize your teams on the spot to vote for our candidates We strongly solicit your support Thank you Wafa Dahmani member AFRINIC Appeal Committee Global IGF MAG member ASO / AC excom member _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss ********************************************** IPv4 is over Are you ready for the new Internet ? http://www.theipv6company.com The IPv6 Company This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the exclusive use of the individual(s) named above and further non-explicilty authorized disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, even if partially, including attached files, is strictly prohibited and will be considered a criminal offense. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, even if partially, including attached files, is strictly prohibited, will be considered a criminal offense, so you must reply to the original sender to inform about this communication and delete it.
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