Hi Badru, To be absolutely pedantic, the dues paying Members elect the Board, not the "Community", where the Community = fee payers+ interested parties.
For the purpose of policy making, we are all equal. For the purpose of asking questions regarding financial matters, I believe the fee paying folks have greater standing. just my 2 bob, McTim On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Badru Ntege <[email protected]> wrote: > Chair > > With all due respect the list of questions in a way underpin my worry. In a > bottom up environment we are all equal and the board and organization serve > the community. > > For clarity the community elects the board, the then board hires the CEO > who then hires the staff so community communications goes to board and > chair. > > CEO has a dual roll of being staff and board member and thus his right to > respond directly to comments. > > In my understanding CEO can also authorize staff to respond to issues if he > so wishes. > > Should you respond to all queries ?? I personally think responding to some > and ignoring others could be taken wrongly by the individual who raises what > they think is a pertinent issue. > > Why my concern ?? I think over the last few months many comments have been > ignored or answered after prompt from the sender. > > On a number of occasions like bellow we have been given information which > turns out to be wrong. Like the issue raised about recovered resources. > > I'm sure I need not go further. It just seems community is becoming a > nuisance to you at times which is unfortunate. And I read this from your > email above and the questions paused > > Regards > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 16 Jun 2017, at 18:32, Sunday Folayan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Badru, > > Kindly explain or clarify the gap you have observed, so we can correct this. > > I believe to the best of my ability that as chair and on behalf of the > Board, I have engaged on matters directed at us, even when they clearly > border on operational issues. > > It would also be helpful if you further confirm one or more of these to help > me see how to lead the board to intervene so as to improve things: > > 1. Should Board and staff respond to all issues, and are they obliged to do > so? > > 2. Should Chair or CEO acknowledge all questions and routes to an > appropriate person? > > 3. Chair or CEO acknowledges all posts and provides an estimated response > time?. > > 4. Should members explicitly address chair or CEO in discussions instead of > "can someone respond?" > > 5. Should members directly write Afrinic instead of posting urgent questions > on the mailing lists? > > 6. Should Afrinic policy liaison monitors the lists and brings noteworthy or > urgent issues to the attention of the CEO as the case may be? > > 7. Should the chair always respond to all operational issues or extract > answers from the CEO and relay? > > 8. Are you addressing Chair, Board, Staff or all? > > It is important that I get you right. What do you suggest? > > Thanks > > Sunday. > > > > > On Jun 16, 2017 12:30, "Badru Ntege" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Chair > > A response from any of the responsible persons might be of value. > > I’m concerned that responses coming back to issues raised by community are > not being given the due attention, with some glaring omissions which makes > the members worry if we have all hands on deck. > > Would it be advisable to have some kind of SLA in how long it takes to > respond to community and Member queries?? > > I have noticed it takes quite some time for members to get an > acknowledgement on issues raised. > > Regards > > > > > On 6/15/17, 1:36 PM, "Noah" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 14 Jun 2017 3:29 p.m., "Alan Barrett" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 6 Jun 2017, at 22:19, Noah <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Chair, >> >> If the 39,199 was from members who defaulted and went out of business it >> means the resources are no longer in use by those specific members. >> >> Did we recover those resources back into Afrinic inventory for >> re-allocation/assignment? >> >> Can we please get a report on the space that was recovered as I couldnt >> find that anywhere on the AFRINIC website. > > Although I was not asked this question, I perceive that some people may > expect me to answer it. > > > Hi Alan, > > Yes certainly.... > > > Yes, resources from members who go out of business are recovered. The > recovered resources are quarantined for two years, during which time they > are marked as RESERVED in the WHOIS database. After the ene of he > quarantine period, the recovered resources are released to the pool for > possible re-use. > > We do not publicise the names of the members concerned. The reserved space > may be found in raw data published at > <ftp://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic>. > > > > As far as I am concerned the list of members who defaulted and/or under > closure used to be published for example the below AFRINIC link. > > http://web02.jnb.afrinic.net/community/policy-development/pdwg/1207-closure-list > > Why are we being less transparent about this now? In fact since 2014, how > many members were closed up until 2017 as that record doesnt exist today? > > I also checked the > ftp://ftp.afrinic.net/stats/afrinic/delegated-afrinic-extended-latest as you > recommended. > > Are all those 2411 INR marked as “reserved”, resources from recovery? > > If not how can one tell the difference between which are the recovered space > and everything else? > > Noah > _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing > list [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > _______________________________________________ Community-Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss
