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Today's Topics:
1. ACSP Consultation 2022.2: Consultation on Elections and the
Nomination Process (ARIN)
2. Response to ACSP Consultation 2022.2: Consultation on
Elections and the Nomination Process (Mike Burns)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:37:08 -0500
From: ARIN <[email protected]>
To: Owen DeLong via ARIN-consult <[email protected]>
Subject: [ARIN-consult] ACSP Consultation 2022.2: Consultation on
Elections and the Nomination Process
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The Board of Trustees maintains authority over the scope, mission, and along
with the President and Chief Executive Officer establishes ARIN?s strategic
direction and fiscal oversight. The Board also has oversight authority of the
nomination, appointment, and election of individuals to Board committees and
similar roles.
Over the past two years, as part of its fiduciary duties, the ARIN Board of
Trustees (?Board?) has undertaken a review of ARIN?s governance structures,
including Elections and Nominations processes. As part of this effort, an
independent, outside consultant was engaged to review ARIN?s governance
structures and provide recommendations.
One recommendation that has arisen from this governance review is to make
changes to the existing election and nomination processes. The proposed changes
will ensure board independence, transparency, and impartiality.
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Board Guidance Letter
? The Board Guidance Letter (for each of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory
Council) contains "Highly Recommended" and "Recommended" attributes and assigns
a weighting to each attribute.
? The evaluation of each candidate would be tied to the degree to which each
attribute was satisfied.
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Nomination Committee Selection
? The Nomination Committee (NomCom) has seven members in total, with the
members serving staggered two-year terms to ensure continuity and succession
planning. The NomCom Board members select non-board members via an open call
for nominations, appointing two or three members per year to reach the total
membership of seven. Up to two Advisory Council (AC) members can serve on the
NomCom.
? The NomCom is chaired by a Board Member.
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Nominations
Anyone can self-nominate by completing the questionnaire for the position
sought. Nominees must reside within the ARIN region.
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Review of Potential Candidates
? The Nomination Committee (NomCom) would review nominees based on the Board
Guidance Letter, responses to questionnaires, responses to third-party
interviews (Board of Trustees only), material issues from background checks
(Board of Trustees only) and the review of ARIN files, and other information
available to the NomCom.
? The Board Guidance Letter defines "Highly Recommended" and "Recommended"
attributes. The NomCom would classify each qualified nominee as "Well
Qualified," "Qualified" or "Qualifications not Demonstrated" based on
evaluation of these attributes, in a fashion like that used by the American Bar
Association (ABA) Federal Judiciary process. All qualified nominees would be
added to the slate as candidates for election. The reasons for classifications
would be published when the slate is announced.
? The NomCom would evaluate each nominee on each weighted attribute to inform
the classification process. Any nominee classified as ?Unable to Qualify? would
not be added to the slate.
? Nominee questionnaires would include questions about the attributes defined
in the Board Guidance Letter.
? The NomCom would report on the total number of individuals assessed for the
election cycle.
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Background Check Process
The process is outlined in ARIN?s Election Processes document (Section V(e))
and remains unchanged.
ARIN?s GC and Sr. Director of HR & Administration (HR Director) will arrange
for a third- party vendor to conduct background checks for selected nominees.
ARIN?s GC and HR Director will review the reports for each nominee and
determine if there are any material issues with their background. If any
material issues are found, they will review the nature of the background issue
with the nominee. If after consultation with the nominee, ARIN?s GC and HR
Director still deems the issue as material, they will notify the nominee that
the relevant information will be provided to the NomCom unless the nominee
withdraws their candidacy. Relevant material information may include
information, if any, from a former ARIN volunteer?s or former ARIN employee?s
individual file. A nominee will be given the opportunity to provide a statement
addressing the issue which will also be provided to the NomCom. If the nominee
does not withdraw their candidacy, the relevant information including the
nominee?s st
atement, if any, will be provided to the NomCom for consideration.
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Board Proposal:
ARIN will make changes to the selection of the NomCom, the Nomination process,
and the candidate review and rating system.
The proposed changes will ensure board independence, transparency, and
impartiality. ARIN seeks community feedback on these proposed changes:
https://www.arin.net/participate/community/acsp/consultations/2022/2022-2/
This consultation will remain open for 15 days.
An Appendix FAQ that further details the rationale for these changes and
additional information is available at:
https://www.arin.net/participate/community/acsp/consultations/2022/FAQAppendix_202202consult.pdf
Please provide comments to [email protected]. You can subscribe to this
mailing list at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult.
Discussion on [email protected] will close on 28 February 2022.
Regards,
John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:08:07 -0500
From: "Mike Burns" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [ARIN-consult] Response to ACSP Consultation 2022.2:
Consultation on Elections and the Nomination Process
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I support these changes and commend the board for responding to the needs
expressed by members at the last meeting with this proposal to revise
current procedures.
In particular I support this statement: "All qualified nominees would be
added to the slate as candidates for election. The reasons for
classifications would be published when the slate is announced."
Regards,
Mike Burns
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