Hi, First, I would like to appreciate APNIC, EC members and all others involved in updating the APNIC by-laws and its governance structure. Keeping in mind the probable EC hijack attempt in the last EC election, updating by-laws and governance structure was very much required.
In proposal 2 (https://www.apnic.net/about-apnic/organization/structure/proposed-by-law-reform-2023/), an attempt is to make corporate diversity, to not allow one corporation to take over the EC. But how will you take care of a scenario, where a group of individuals, with a mindset of taking over the APNIC, and have control of only around 5000 voting rights (roughly 12-15% of total voting rights)? With the current voting structure, every member can cast a vote for all the 3 (or 4 depending upon the seats available) EC seats. It opens up the space for the formation of the syndicate and only the group will get elected (and subsequently re-elected). In my opinion, if this issue is not taken care of in this governance update exercise, we may have to do a fresh exercise again (provided the lobby didn't hijack the EC till then). Regards, Gaurav _______________________________________________ APNIC-talk - https://mailman.apnic.net/apnic-talk@lists.apnic.net/ To unsubscribe send an email to apnic-talk-le...@lists.apnic.net
