Hubert, One other person who may or may not be affiliated with LARUS is not representative of the wider community.
As previously explained (and which you seem to fail to understand), proxy voting is permitted under Australian corporate law. I don't see an issue with proxy voting, as it's designed for instances where people from groups who share common views and interests to allow one person/organisation to represent their views in the voting process. The only way this could be abused is if someone or some organisation were to buy votes or access to APNIC member accounts for the purpose of claiming their votes. I'm interested to know how you gained the ability to speak on behalf of the EC, in your claim that Gaurav's "concerns and genuine feedback ... did not sit well with the EC" and that they were "brushed aside". In my last reply to JJ (which I note has gone unanswered) I addressed the reasoning why the OMOV proposal was not included. The discussion on the current by-law reforms was raised well before OMOV, and policy change takes significantly longer than one month to get from conception of the proposal to final drafting and then voting. To address your comment on how proposal raised "by [Gaurav] on how voting rights shall also be extended to NIR member seems to be acknowledged favorably by Christopher Hawker" is incorrect. I didn't "acknowledge favorably" the proposal raised by Gaurav, rather I stated that each NIR can hold their own voting processes to determine how their NIR should vote in regard to APNIC voting. For the record, the comment you're referring to was received by this list on 17/08/2023 at 12:08am UTC+10 which reads "Each NIR holds their own elections to make determinations as to how the NIR should vote", as a possible solution to addressing concerns about members of NIRs having a say on APNIC matters. And to answer your rhetorical question (as it's factually erroneous), the percentage of voting power required to effectively take control of the EC varies from election to election. This is due to a number of variables, such as the number of people who cast their votes and the number of seats. The recent changes to require 75% of the EC to vote in favour of a change also means that all it takes is for two EC members to vote against a change and it doesn't happen. Regards, Christopher H. _______________________________________________ APNIC-talk - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
