Dear Chris, I notice you seem to be quite knowledgeable about APNIC and even seems to be serving as an official spokesperson or consultant for them. Your explanation very details and helpful.
I'm curious to know your role, as you possess information that seems to be unknown to the wider community. I would appreciate your opinion on APNIC's latest financial report, particularly in relation to the following figures: - Salaries and personnel expenses amounting to 19 million AUD - Professional services costing nearly 1.4 million AUD - Travel expenses totaling 1.6 million AUD As a community member, I must admit that I find it difficult to understand why an IP address database would require such a substantial expenditure of 33 million AUD, with a significant portion of it allocated to salaries and personnel expenses. “Personnel Expenses” is really a good wording which the audit found for the financial report. It appears that most of the budget is being directed towards Personnel, rather than benefiting the members. I would be interested to hear your thoughts on this matter. Best regards, On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 3:41 AM Christopher Hawker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
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