On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Martin Hannigan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:21 PM, William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Change for change's sake is rarely for the better. Stability is > Agreed. > > usually a good thing. I don't see rotating out AC members having a > > negative impact on ARIN's overall stability. Frequent turnover on the > > board, however... > I believe "term limits" to the AC currently to be a solution in search of a problem. The exact benefits are vague and poorly explained. The idea of term limits would seem to be a net negative, due to all the time waste that would be involved in implementing them, and the additional complexity imposed upon future selection of the AC by the community: with voters/members possibly being deprived of the best possible choices for the selection of the AC. > As far as term limits go, there are a multitude of organizations that > use them and suffer little from it including federal, state and > municipal governments, non profts like the Appalachian Mountain Club, > NANOG, and many others. > These are much larger entities. There are a large number of people who could serve on the board of a non-profit or governmental entity. There are few who are even sufficiently familiar with the NRPM and technical issues surrounding IP addressing policy to do the AC's job.. > There are a variety of problems term limits may help with including > the self perpetuation concern, under representation (only a fraction > of resource holders are actually "represented" and stagnation (Gov > term limit task and PDP Simplification Committee). Term limits would > likely resolve or soften some worthwhile problems. > If you could drop "concern" from the statement, and then explain how each of these has become a real problem with the AC, then you would possibly have a reasonable argument for term limits. > Why is ARIN different than all of these other venerable organizations? > They are not ARIN. Many governmental, commercial, and non-profit organizations take on their activities in a manner that would not necessarily be appropriate for ARIN. Certainly "term limits" has not been shown to be something that makes those organizations venerable. Meanwhile, ARIN itself is a venerable organization with no term limits really needed thus far. > Best > -M< > > -- -JH
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