Dear All, I have read the report and acknowledge that this is a great report and provides appropriate action points to be considered.
Kind Regards Daniel K. Nanghaka ᐧ On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 10:42, Sami Salih <sami.sa...@outlook.com> wrote: > Thank you Internet Society’s Africa, and Thank you Dawit and Michuki, > This is what we expected from ISOC and from you as real Africans who > really cares about the stability of this continent. > > Few points I would like to highlight as follows: > > 1) The Board can never viewed as part of any problem (I prefer use issues > instead) if and only if we (I will always use WE as we are one community) > increase the level of transparency. However, increasing transparency DID > NOT mean to disclose everything. While I personally support disclosing the > methodologies use to take decisions, I believe this is to be evaluated by > the board its self to decide on the information to be share with members, > community, etc. Overall, the board needed to build a trusted relationship > with the community. > > 2) Engagement is always good thing, semi-annual meeting with one of them > organized with AFNOG and accommodate Af* is what we practices for a while. > Is this enough or not is not easy to judge by simply take individual views > in such session. We need to consider that over-engagement will negatively > affect the organization not only in term of financial cost but also the > cost of the stability of running the organization, as we need to give > board, staff etc a peaceful environment to act and innovate. Substantially, > engagement is a two way process, let us see how we can encourage the other > parts (than AFRINIC) to initiate engagement initiatives. ;-) > > 3) Enforce the CC is an urgent requirement not only the personal attack > but other hostile activities against the organization and its stability. > This is not an easy task, I experienced this during my long term as PDWG > Co-, with the population of the community and the diversity of individual > and the groups while taking into consideration the number of contributions > especially before and after the meeting, its really difficult to moderate > the list in a way that satisfying the community and reflect a better image > of the glob. We need to tolerate some and stickily avoid/mitigate/prevent > or even ban unacceptable locution. This is again a big dilemma as > continuous monitoring and instant judgement not an easy task to be > achieved. The better way in my perspective is to count on the community > maturity to tolerate and ignore bad things posted in an angry moment. > In this regard, I propose to have a dedicated group or sub-group may be > under Governance Committee to enforce CC in the mailing list and during the > meeting and other sessions. > > 4) The legal interpretations and other bylaw issues can't be discussed in > such details during open mic, only specialists in a small dedicated group > can provide useful contributions and suggested the way-forward. As you can > notice different views and different wishes are expressed at the end only > specialist can enlightening and guide the community to respect the local > laws and maintain the spirit of the bottom-up system for RIRs. > > 5) In page (3) please remove/rephrase this sentence ".... vote on policy > proposals. ..." cos its not accurate. > > 6) I would also propose that the Nomination and Election processes to be > conducted by the governance committee, or at least they need to set a clear > rule and procedure for those sensitive activities. > > Once again I would like to thank Dawit and Michuki for this detailed > report and their observations and proposals. > > Regards, > > > *Sami H.O. Salih, PhD., PMP*® > Assistant Prof, School of Electronics Engineering, > Sudan University of Science and Technology, > sami.sa...@sustech.edu > ------------------------------ > *From:* Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> > *Sent:* Wednesday, July 24, 2019 12:51 AM > *To:* community-discuss@afrinic.net <community-discuss@afrinic.net> > *Subject:* Re: [Community-Discuss] Fwd: [AfrICANN-discuss] Report of the > AFRINIC Open Mic Session on June 20 > > Good work, Mich and team! > > Mark. > > On 23/Jul/19 22:30, Noah wrote: > > Dear Dawit and Michuki > > Thanks you so much for this report and having read through it, I find it > very accurate as it covers the accounts of the said deliberations. We hope > all stakeholders will consider the content of the report and act upon it. > > Looking forward to more engagement and collaboration. > > Cheers > Noah > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: *Dawit Bekele* <bek...@isoc.org> > Date: Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 12:40 PM > Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] Report of the AFRINIC Open Mic Session on June > 20 > To: AfrICANN Community List <afric...@afrinic.net> > > > Hi all, > > As you might remember, AFRINIC board asked Michuki and I to moderate the > open mic discussion after the board meeting on June 20. We accepted the > request and moderated the meeting as best as we could. With some delay, we > have prepared a report of the meeting that we would like to share here > (attached). We focused on reporting on the issues raised rather than > providing detailed minutes of the discussion. > > Please let us know if there is any inaccuracy so that we make corrections > before submitting a final version. > > Thank you, > > Dawit Bekele and Michuki Mwangi > > Internet Society > > African Regional Bureau > > > > > _______________________________________________ > AfrICANN mailing list > afric...@afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/africann > > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > Community-Discuss@afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss >
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