Are you deliberately trying to be funny? Le mer. 26 sept. 2018 à 21:55, Marcus K. G. Adomey <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Dear Dewole, > > Thanks for your quick response. > > I find it bizarre that you did not report or bring to the attention of > this community on what happen during the session on AFRINIC future at WEEK > 2018, session you attended and which raised some questions in your mind, > but was prompt to jump in with "your answers" when a request was sent to > AFRINIC officials to inform the community as the topic is delicate. > > > Marcus > ------------------------------ > *From:* Adewole Ajao <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, September 23, 2018 3:07 AM > *To:* Marcus K. G. Adomey > *Cc:* General Discussions of AFRINIC > *Subject:* Re: [Community-Discuss] Future of AfriNIC Discussed at IWEEK > 2018 > > Hi Marcus, > > I happened to be attending AfPIF and like most AFRINIC community members > was curious about the session so I attended. I believe any AFRINIC staff > that attended also did so primarily as curious community members; It > appeared they were not invited in any official capacity (but I may be > wrong). I did not take any notes but if memory serves me correctly, I can > summarize as follows: > > The presenter expressed concerns about the current state of AFRINIC's > board of Directors and the fact that a quorum of elected directors is > required to convene an AGM, conduct elections, etc etc. He expressed > concerns about some of his questions not being answered by the board, about > slow processing of requests by AFRINIC staff, large IT department, travel > budgets being expended, the PDP, and other issues he has raised in the > past. He charged the ISPA members to be more active since they make up a > large percentage of AFRINIC's revenue base. Others spoke of low technical > proficiency of AFRINIC staff when evaluating requests for additional > resources (in their own view) and requests for paperwork to justify > resource requests. There was also talk of calling for an SGMM to deal with > the governance(?) issues raised. > > In response, some members present declared that a better solution would be > to assist the technical staff and help them understand their network > designs, encourage more qualified people to run for board positions rather > than criticize from afar, etc etc. > > I would say it was an interesting show and would encourage that more > AFRINIC members gather in their local regions to discuss the improvement of > the RIR and the services being offered to them. The session could have had > a different outcome but because several people were passionate enough to > speak their minds openly and challenge what they did not think was > accurate, I think it was productive. I also believe that by now, the > AFRINIC staff would already be applying the feedback received to improve > existing processes. > > Something that makes me curious however is this: Do members in other > regions not request resources from AFRINIC? Are others not suffering poor > services or do they just keep quiet about it? > > I know the response to my next question will be that some of the stats are > available at https://www.afrinic.net/en/services/statistics using data > from ftp://ftp.afrinic.net/pub/stats/afrinic but I think it would be > useful for those of us with limited technical capacity if the AFRINIC IT > team could provide a web page that shows: > > Political map of Africa and Indian Ocean region with > - Number of new member allocation/assignment requests this month > - Number of additional resource requests this month > - Number of technical support tickets created this month > - Number of technical support tickets resolved this month > - Any other visualizations that we think could be useful to make those > statistics more useful to the rest of us. Not bar graphs and line charts, > please! > > Ideally, a visitor should be able to change the timeframe to reflect a > specific day, week, month, year, etc. We could even throw in a heat map for > existing membership numbers and resource allocation/assignments. The > intention is not to polarize the community further but to help everyone > (regardless of their technical capability and where they are) appreciate > the services being offered by the RIR. > > Okay it's time for you all to go to my paypal donate link for the iWeek > reporting service I just offered :-p > > Have a productive week ahead! > > Regards, > Dewole. > > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 6:15 PM Marcus K. G. Adomey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello, > > There was a session at IWEEK 2018 on AFRINiC future. A session requested > by ISPA members to discuss AFRINIC future [1] > > Can AFRINIC officials who attended the session tell us what transpired > from the session? > > Why is AFRINIC future so important for ISPA members to demand a session on > the topic at IWEEK? > > Thanks > > > > Marcus > > > > [1] https <https://iweek.org.za/session/the-future-of-afrinic/>:// > <https://iweek.org.za/session/the-future-of-afrinic/>iweek.org.za > <https://iweek.org.za/session/the-future-of-afrinic/>/session/ > <https://iweek.org.za/session/the-future-of-afrinic/>the-future-of-afrinic > <https://iweek.org.za/session/the-future-of-afrinic/>/ > <https://iweek.org.za/session/the-future-of-afrinic/> > > > _______________________________________________ > Community-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss > >
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