Okoli, As you appear to only be a copywriter for the NRS and don’t really specialise in this area (and due to your failure to acknowledge or respond to my previous replies), I’ll address your points for those who follow the chain.
APNIC holds two member meetings, one in September (at the standalone APNIC conference) and the second in late February (at the APNIC conference track to APRICOT). APNIC’s financial and annual reports run from 01 January to 31 December therefore it takes them some time to create these reports, compile the data and present the report before the Member Meeting in February each year. If you read the financial report, it was only signed-off on 26 February, being yesterday. If they aimed to get the reports out (as an example) 4 weeks prior to the elections this would not leave them enough time to prepare the report. It could very well take Ernst & Young (the independent auditors) a month to compile their report. Therefore, they aim to get their reports out with enough time for them to be reviewed so members can ask questions, if any. APNIC do a damn excellent job to get the reports out in the time that they do. To allege that they are intentionally holding these reports to favour certain individuals for re-election is just downright wrong in every definition. Further, if you’re only paid to write articles, why would you care about APNIC’s governance (as these emails appear to be written in your first-person view)? Unless you’re being paid to write these emails (which I wouldn’t fault you for personally seeing as it’s your job) based on the views of others, but that then begs the question - why wouldn’t those directing you to write the emails the way you are simply post it themselves? Your line of emails simply appears to intend to cast unjustified doubt on these elections, which is quite common for the NRS in the lead-up to elections and using yourself as a puppet to push their agenda. To call them out for intentionally withholding the reports then congratulating them is nothing short of patronising. Regards, Christopher Hawker _______________________________________________ APNIC-talk - https://mailman.apnic.net/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
