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Today's Topics:
1. FW: Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for the ARIN
Board of Trustees (ARIN)
2. FW: Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for the ARIN
Board of Trustees (ARIN)
3. Re: FW: Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for the ARIN
Board of Trustees (William Herrin)
4. Re: FW: Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for the ARIN
Board of Trustees (Adam Thompson)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:31:58 -0500
From: ARIN <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [ARIN-consult] FW: Consultation on Implementing Term Limits
for the ARIN Board of Trustees
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Returning misdirected mail to the discussion thread.
From: John Curran <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 2:10 PM
To: John Comfort <[email protected]>
Cc: ARIN <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for the
ARIN Board of Trustees
On 1 Dec 2021, at 1:51 PM, John Comfort via ARIN-consult
<[email protected]> wrote:
From: John Comfort <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for the
ARIN Board of Trustees
Date: 1 December 2021 at 1:51:54 PM EST
To: ARIN <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Is this merely a rehash of the "Consultation on Increasing the size of the ARIN
Board of Trustees" discussion on implementing politicized "Diversity"?
Is the Board unanimous on this issue? If not, what are the dissenting opinions?
Who is the independent consultant/consulting agency ARIN hired for this
endeavor? What were their objectives specifically?
John -
The consultation that is now underway is specifically regarding the
implementation of Term Limits for the ARIN Board of Trustees. At present, the
Board has reviewed the proposal to add term limits and approved having a
consultation with the community oil this topic so as to gather community input
? as this will help inform the Board of Trustees with their future
consideration of the proposed change and potential adoption.
The firm hired to conduct the overall ARIN governance review was Baker Tilly
and the review centered on best practices in not-for-profit governance and
ARIN?s existing practices. Baker Tilly was selected as a result of a
competitive process whereby ARIN issued an RFP and five responses were received
that were deemed competitive and of high quality (as noted in the Board minutes
for 29 July 2020 https://www.arin.net/about/welcome/board/meetings/2020_0729/)
I hope this information help in your consideration of the proposed change to
implement Term Limits for the ARIN Board of Trustees. If you have specific
views that you can share in support or in opposition of the proposed change to
add term limits as detailed in the consultation, that would be most excellent.
Thanks!
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:32:54 -0500
From: ARIN <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [ARIN-consult] FW: Consultation on Implementing Term Limits
for the ARIN Board of Trustees
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Returning misdirected mail to the discussion thread.
From: John Comfort <[email protected]>
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 2:38 PM
To: John Curran <[email protected]>
Cc: ARIN <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for the
ARIN Board of Trustees
Thank you Mr Curran. Mr Woodfield, the issue is that politicized Diversity
makes paramount the color of skin, sex and sexual orientation, etc. to
determine who is appointed. I am advocating that it ought to be only merit,
experience and ability that determine eligibility of candidates. I'd hate to
see yet another decent American institution fall down to politics.
On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 11:10 AM John Curran <[email protected]> wrote:
On 1 Dec 2021, at 1:51 PM, John Comfort via ARIN-consult
<[email protected]> wrote:
From: John Comfort <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for the
ARIN Board of Trustees
Date: 1 December 2021 at 1:51:54 PM EST
To: ARIN <[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Is this merely a rehash of the "Consultation on Increasing the size of the ARIN
Board of Trustees" discussion on implementing politicized "Diversity"?
Is the Board unanimous on this issue? If not, what are the dissenting opinions?
Who is the independent consultant/consulting agency ARIN hired for this
endeavor? What were their objectives specifically?
John -
The consultation that is now underway is specifically regarding the
implementation of Term Limits for the ARIN Board of Trustees. At present, the
Board has reviewed the proposal to add term limits and approved having a
consultation with the community oil this topic so as to gather community input
? as this will help inform the Board of Trustees with their future
consideration of the proposed change and potential adoption.
The firm hired to conduct the overall ARIN governance review was Baker Tilly
and the review centered on best practices in not-for-profit governance and
ARIN?s existing practices. Baker Tilly was selected as a result of a
competitive process whereby ARIN issued an RFP and five responses were received
that were deemed competitive and of high quality (as noted in the Board minutes
for 29 July 2020 https://www.arin.net/about/welcome/board/meetings/2020_0729/)
I hope this information help in your consideration of the proposed change to
implement Term Limits for the ARIN Board of Trustees. If you have specific
views that you can share in support or in opposition of the proposed change to
add term limits as detailed in the consultation, that would be most excellent.
Thanks!
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 17:17:37 -0800
From: William Herrin <[email protected]>
Cc: "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] FW: Consultation on Implementing Term
Limits for the ARIN Board of Trustees
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> From: Chris Woodfield <[email protected]>
>
> I?m curious on your thoughts as to why efforts to create a more
> diverse governorship body for ARIN is a bad thing for ARIN
> and/or the community. Care to explain how this would negatively
> impact the community?
Hi Chris,
The way I see it, the board's most critical role is to keep ARIN
on-mission. To serve that mission I want to see people who are first
and foremost network engineers, experts at routing and IP address
management.
While there is a degree of diversity within that specialization, I
would not want to see those folks' vote diluted by individuals whose
core competency was, for example, finance. Nor would I want to select
less than the best possible individuals for the sake of catering to
localities, genders, etc. That could only distract from ARIN's core
mission to be one of the authoritative registries of IP addresses in
use on the Internet.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
--
William Herrin
[email protected]
https://bill.herrin.us/
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 01:24:22 +0000
From: Adam Thompson <[email protected]>
To: William Herrin <[email protected]>
Cc: "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] FW: Consultation on Implementing Term
Limits for the ARIN Board of Trustees
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Bill, my understanding (well, more along the lines of "received knowledge",
tbh) is that the current board does include some people with technical
knowledge connected to the internet, but zero or nearly-zero persons with
(recent) operational experience in operating a network. I have not personally
verified this information - no insult is intended here!
If that is indeed the case, then diversifying the board would imply getting a
network operator ONTO the board.
FWIW, my preference would be to put language somewhere along the lines of
"...the nomination committee shall, wherever and whenever feasible, ensure a
minimum of one (1) person(s) with recent network operational experience stands
for election every time". (That's not well-worded, but it I think it sorta
captures what I mean.)
-Adam Thompson
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From: ARIN-consult <[email protected]> On Behalf Of William Herrin
Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 7:18 PM
Cc: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] FW: Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for
the ARIN Board of Trustees
> From: Chris Woodfield <[email protected]>
>
> I?m curious on your thoughts as to why efforts to create a more
> diverse governorship body for ARIN is a bad thing for ARIN and/or the
> community. Care to explain how this would negatively impact the
> community?
Hi Chris,
The way I see it, the board's most critical role is to keep ARIN on-mission. To
serve that mission I want to see people who are first and foremost network
engineers, experts at routing and IP address management.
While there is a degree of diversity within that specialization, I would not
want to see those folks' vote diluted by individuals whose core competency was,
for example, finance. Nor would I want to select less than the best possible
individuals for the sake of catering to localities, genders, etc. That could
only distract from ARIN's core mission to be one of the authoritative
registries of IP addresses in use on the Internet.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
--
William Herrin
[email protected]
https://bill.herrin.us/
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