Hi Nishal, Why respond to this email when it is specifically addressed to the CEO and the Chair?
Do we have to be a non - native English speaker to understand that? Marcus > From: nis...@controlfreak.co.za > To: community-discuss@afrinic.net > Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 19:36:44 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Council of Elders > > On 11 Jul 2016, at 18:39, Honest Ornella GANKPA wrote: > > > and it seems that automatically every former chair become part of the > > CoE. > > http://afrinic.net/en/about/our-structure/council-of-elders > > the url that you reference says: > “.. The AFRINIC Bylaw (Section 16) allows the Board to appoint..” > > “allow” is not the same as “automatic” to *this* native-english > speaker. > > so, i looked up the bylaws. > quoting: http://afrinic.net/en/about/bylaws?start=15 > > “16.1 Membership to the Council shall be opened to such former > chairpersons who served at least one full term in that capacity. “ > i read that[1] “shall”, as a SHOULD and not MUST (2119 style). > > you might read that differently, > —n. > > [1] though, of course, i don’t speak for the board :-) > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > Community-Discuss@afrinic.net > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
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