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1. Re: Fwd: [arin-announce] Consultation on Increasing the Size
of the ARIN Board of Trustees (Owen DeLong)
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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 07:47:13 -0800
From: Owen DeLong <[email protected]>
To: Matthew Wilder <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Burns <[email protected]>, [email protected], vinton cerf
<[email protected]>, arin-consult <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Fwd: [arin-announce] Consultation on
Increasing the Size of the ARIN Board of Trustees
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> 2) I am in favor of staggering this growth over 3 election cycles as
> proposed, in order to provide time for the highest quality candidates to
> emerge. I do not believe the community would benefit from 5 out of 9 BoT
> seats effectively turning over in a single election cycle.
Those additional two candidates would be serving shortened terms, and I am
unconvinced that their quality would somehow be reduced by electing them in the
same year. Absent an incumbent choosing not to run for reelection or resigning,
two of the 5 are extremely likely to be existing board members (ARIN has a
pretty strong history of incumbent reelection).
Owen
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthew Wilder
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ARIN-consult <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mike Burns
> Sent: March 2, 2022 02:46 PM
> To: [email protected]; 'vinton cerf' <[email protected]>
> Cc: 'arin-consult' <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Fwd: [arin-announce] Consultation on Increasing
> the Size of the ARIN Board of Trustees
>
>
>
> Diversity or lack thereof is not my particular concern, although I do favor
> diverse thinking, experience, and knowledge related to numbers stewardship
> and don't think that is necessarily bound to other measures of diversity.
>
> Rather, it is the preventing of board capture which particularly drives my
> support of the board expansion.
> I rather favor Owen's suggestion.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2022 4:24 PM
> To: vinton cerf <[email protected]>
> Cc: Mike Burns <[email protected]>; arin-consult <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Fwd: [arin-announce] Consultation on Increasing
> the Size of the ARIN Board of Trustees
>
>
> I'm sort of amazed that after at least 40+ years of diversity discussion and
> practices (obviously not limited to the networking
> sphere) we go right back to year zero on the issue of whether or not
> including members of varying race, gender, etc introduce diversity and are a
> good thing or not.
>
> One thing is certain, the net/email/lists seem to make people believe they
> are gods and if they wish to advocate whether or not the earth is flat well,
> it's their keyboard to bang on, no need for external reference, studies,
> thoughts from experienced professionals, etc.
>
> Why not type "the value of diversity in governance" and read through some of
> the hits. Or read one or two from respected sources, including retrospective
> findings of studies on the topic such as:
>
>
> https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2020/07/14/maximizing-the-benefits-of-board-diversity-lessons-learned-from-activist-investing/
>
> or
>
>
> https://www.councilofnonprofits.org/tools-resources/diversity-nonprofit-boards
>
> etc.
>
> also maybe enter "diversity and governance" into Amazon's book search and
> consider some titles.
>
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 7:11 PM Mike Burns <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ted,
>>
>> I appreciate your general feelings about diversity, but diversity of
>> thought is really the significant factor.
>> I don't think diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or
>> any of that matters in decisions about the stewardship of numbers.
>> But diversity of thought is different and I don't think superficial
>> diversity is the desire here, although I concur it may have been in the
>> past.
>>
>> In addition to diversity of thought, one of the reasons offered for this
>> change was protection from board capture.
>> Although you may be right about difficulties reaching consensual decisions
>> with larger boards, and those difficulties making larger boards appear
>> conservative, I find that as organizations grow larger they actually grow
>> less conservative as a rule. We could argue that point.
>>
>> But the advantages gained by making board capture more difficult outweigh
>> the disadvantages associated with slower decision-making.
>> And advantages of true diversity of thought and relevant experience are
>> even more important.
>>
>> A board of only six members is very easy to capture and in the workings of
>> the last NomCom I detected a real danger of that happening at ARIN.
>>
>> I take it at face value that the current and prior boards were honestly
>> interested in reviewing ARIN governance and that this recommendation
>> resonates with more than just a hired consultant but with the board
>> members
>> who commissioned the review.
>>
>> I am not a fan of ARIN expanding its number stewardship responsibilities
>> beyond what is minimally necessary. I am not a fan of the board making
>> charitable donations or spending lots of money on items tangential to
>> number stewardship but some of the issues mentioned below do intersect
>> with
>> those responsibilities. Included among these are cybersecurity, risk
>> management, and legal issues associated with the registration of
>> increasingly valuable resources. These are issues the earliest boards may
>> not have had to deal with, but these have become important today, and
>> likely there will be other issues that arise in the future.
>>
>> It makes sense with proliferating duties to have a larger board, and
>> additionally the protection afforded against board capture lead me to
>> support this increase in board size.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike Burns
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---- On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 16:06:25 -0500 Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]>
>> wrote ----
>>
>>
>> Yes, this sort of thing is all the rage today. It's a big fad.
>> Predictably the phrase "Increase diversity of thought on issues
>> impacting the community" was included as a poison pill.
>>
>> Anyone arguing against the idea is immediately labeled as being
>> against
>> the magic "diversity" word and thus a bigot and racist and so has lost
>> the argument before they even make it.
>>
>> You might consider that a hired consultant who says "thank you for
>> that
>> fat check you gave me, the reality is you are doing nothing wrong and
>> don't need any of my suggestions" is going to be viewed as a scammer
>> at worst, and a stupid waste of money at best. Management consultants
>> ALWAYS recommend changes. You could hire a consulting firm to study
>> the most successful and profitable company in the world and they would
>> find something wrong.
>>
>> Go ahead if you want. It just means that even less will get done
>> since in general the more members on any sort of governing committee
>> or
>> team, the more conservative it is, and the harder it is to arrive at
>> a consensus.
>>
>> https://hbr.org/2009/05/why-teams-dont-work
>>
>> In another decade the next consultant will recommend shrinking the
>> board
>> so it really doesn't matter what you do now.
>>
>> Ted Mittelstaedt
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: [arin-announce] Consultation on Increasing the Size of the
>> ARIN
>> Board of Trustees
>> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 13:54:35 -0500
>> From: ARIN <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
>>
>> 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 the size of the Board. As part of this effort,
>> an
>> independent, outside consultant was engaged to review ARIN?s
>> governance
>> structures and provide recommendations.
>> One recommendation from this governance review is to increase the size
>> of the Board to strengthen its capacity to provide strategic and
>> fiscal
>> oversight of ARIN. Increasing the Board size will:
>> 1. Increase the range and depth of overlapping skills and governance
>> experience on the Board to augment its capability. Specific areas for
>> strengthening include cybersecurity, risk management, finance, legal,
>> technology and strategic oversight. This will require more than 6
>> elected seats at the board table to provide this experience.
>>
>> 2. Increase diversity of thought on issues impacting the community,
>> limit the possibility of board capture, and balance the time
>> commitment
>> required of our community volunteers.
>>
>> 3. Ensure sufficient board capacity to engage in more focused,
>> efficient
>> governance activities, including participation in these additional
>> valuable committees (e.g. Governance, Risk & Cybersecurity, and
>> Strategy
>> & Foresight) to manage the work and oversight duties of the Board, and
>> to take on work that is requested by, and important to, the community
>> as
>> it evolves.
>>
>> The budgetary impact will not be material, as the only increased costs
>> would be for travel costs involved in attending in-person Board
>> meetings. The number of Board members travelling to any RIR meeting
>> would not change.
>>
>> Board Proposal
>>
>> ARIN will increase the number of elected voting seats of the Board
>> from
>> six to nine. The currently available appointed voting seat would be
>> removed.
>>
>> The additional Board seats would be added in a staggered format with
>> one
>> additional seat for election in each of the upcoming election cycles
>> starting with the 2022 election period.
>> ARIN seeks community feedback on this proposed increase to the size of
>> the Board. This consultation will remain open for 15 days.
>>
>> 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 15 March 2022.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John Curran
>> President and CEO
>> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>>
>>
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