Noah, I am trying to understand this.

So, which country do you consider me from? South Africa because I hold a South 
African passport? Kenya because I have lived there for 3 years, am married to a 
Kenyan and have a child who holds both? Or for the purposes of this am from 
both?

If I am South African - then it means nothing that I don't live there anymore 
and that's bizarre, if I am considered Kenyan, then by the same token Alan 
would be Mauritian at the moment, and one of the current board members would be 
Singaporean.

Who gives a damn where people are from, the board is there to run a company and 
ensure it remains a solid on going concern  with decent corporate governance. 
That makes it about skills, not where someone is from.

Furthermore - I honestly see this whole thing as more fearmongering with no 
substantiation or evidence to support it. What exactly are these people going 
to collude on? What is the motivation you prescribe for this mythical 
organizational capture people seem to believe would happen? To what end and 
what substantiation is there for these fears?

Or are we all just playing the Donald trump card and stirring fear and paranoia 
for the sake of it?

Andrew

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From: Noah <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2016 7:18:26 PM
To: Mark Elkins
Cc: General Discussions of AFRINIC
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] Bylaws changes


On 13 Nov 2016 18:48, "Mark Elkins" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:
>
>
> > The CEO country should never have someone run to represent the non
> > geographic since if elected, the board would end up with 3 directors
> > from a single country that is CEO, subregion and non geo.
>
> For a moment - I was worried. Then I realised that even though Alan is
> South African from the Southern African subregion - he lives in
> Mauritius, part of the Indian Ocean subregion..
>

This is not about Alan. Its obvious the CEO will alway relocate to .mu though 
he or she would never represent the Indian Ocean subregion.

What we need to limit is the number of folk from the same country as the CEO to 
1 at any given rotation.

> Regardless, I think this idea is stupid. The CEO should not be in this
> count at all.
>

Its valid since the CEO always becomes a full time director of the board.

> There should not be any "Country limits" - just a maximum of two per
> subregion

There should be a country limit of 1 so that per subregion 2 different 
countries can have the total of 2 folk.

Diversity as other countries also have experienced folk to serve not just a few 
common countries year after year.

For East Africa subregion, it would be great to also have experienced folk from 
Burundi or Rwanda next round just like coutries like Kenya Uganda and Tanzania 
who have had the opportunity to serve.

> and all numbers should exclude the CEO - or it will always be unfair on
> the AFRINIC host subregion - the Indian Ocean subregion for now.
>

That is still open to debate.

Noah
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