+1. Thanks Alain Less we forget our history.
> On 8 Jul 2016, at 12:28 am, ALAIN AINA <aal...@trstech.net> wrote: > > Hello SM > > I beg. Lets stop this discussion about to whom AFRINIC belong to, playing > with “members" and "non members", invoking RSA and AFRINIC Ltd, etc…. > We have come a long way to this community driven organisation which role is > to serve the AFRICAN Internet community by distributing numbers ressources > and beyond. Like other RIRs, the AfriNIC organisational structure has been > set to encourage a bottom-up self governance management model in which > community in general, members, the Board of Directors elected by these > members have a role and a say. > > I would invite all of us to read : > > - The 1997 AFRINIC proposal > https://www.isoc.org/inet97/ans97/afrinic.htm > > - The IANA report on AFRNIC accreditation > https://www.iana.org/reports/2005/afrinic-report-08apr2005.html > > - AFRINIC vision, mission, cores values and success factors > http://www.afrinic.net/en/about/origins > > I would also suggest that we plan a session on AFRINIC History during > AFRINC-25 like we had AF* history at AIS2016 > > Hope this helps > > —Alain > > > > > > >> On Jul 7, 2016, at 3:55 PM, sm+afri...@elandsys.com wrote: >> >> Hi Noah, Badru, >> At 09:22 06-07-2016, Noah wrote: >>> Who elects the directors, do they elect themselves? >> >> The directors of Afrinic Ltd are elected by the members of Afrinic Ltd. >> >>> Whose interests do they serve? >> >> One of the powers of the directors of the company is to "determine the >> guidelines for the allocation of address space to members in line with the >> member driven Policy Development Process". >> >>> What where they before they became directors? >> >> The directors were members of the company. >> >>> Are they now so special now all over sudden and cant consult the same >>> community "resource members + non" who elected them? [1] >> >> The "non" (in the above) does not elect the directors. Section 6(d) of the >> RSA states that the members of Afrinic Ltd will follow the policies adopted >> by this group and follow global policies. Membership fees, for example, are >> not set through policies which are adopted by this group. Membership fees >> is usually a matter discussed between the members who pay those fees. A >> member usually does not vote for a director if the member is dissatisfied >> with the decisions taken by the director. That is the accountability angle. >> >> At 00:07 07-07-2016, Badru Ntege wrote: >>> The company belongs to the community at large under the custody of current >>> members who then elect a board. It should never be seen as a top down >>> issue. >> >> If the company belongs to this group there would be a document about that. >> The only "agreement" up to now is the one where the company agrees that its >> members will follow the policies adopted by this group. There is a >> discussion about that in the mailing list archives. >> >> Regards, >> S. Moonesamy >> >> _______________________________________________ >> RPD mailing list >> r...@afrinic.net >> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/rpd > > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > Community-Discuss@afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list Community-Discuss@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
