On 09/11/2016 13:14, ALAIN AINA wrote: > >> On Nov 9, 2016, at 3:01 PM, Alan Barrett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> On 9 Nov 2016, at 16:16, ALAIN AINA <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hmmm. Are we moving the PDPWG powers in board hands? I do not >>> understand the concept of deadlock in our bottom-up PDP ruled by >>> "Rough Consensus” and not “Full Consensus". I would expect to >>> see all times, effort made by all parties(including board) to >>> reach rough consensus on adoption/rejection… and not board >>> making decisions. Is this not a discussion for the PDPWG ? >> >> The Bylaws have always given the Board the power to make policy >> without going throgh the PDWG process. The Board has never >> exercised that power in the past, but the ability is there in the >> Bylaws in case a good reason appears in the future. We are talking >> about reducing that power so that the Board cannot abuse it. > > Good Alan, but the way it was presented does not sound same as your > last text. But It was also proposed to just remove board adopting > policy from bylaws and only depend on the PDP. May be an updated > version of the PDP ?
And if the Board has never abused this PDP power (never even used it at all) since inception yet has always had the power to do this - why then is it really a problem? The membership could still look for blood in other ways if necessary. If we do have such a Bylaw (to stop potential abuse) - this would have to be done by a membership vote - not a PDP meeting "consensus". This might be up to 5 months away - time for lots of damage - etc. On the other hand - if the Board decided that they needed to have an expedited policy introduced - and they asked the Membership to vote (electronically) on it - AFRINIC staff could probably pull that exercise off within a working week - which should be fast enough. The Board is not stupid, neither is the membership. Just thoughts. -- Mark James ELKINS - Posix Systems - (South) Africa [email protected] Tel: +27.128070590 Cell: +27.826010496 For fast, reliable, low cost Internet in ZA: https://ftth.posix.co.za
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