Ok Owen, let me agree with you this time.
As I said in my first intervention in this issue I my self - and many others 
like you - will not state my affiliation/membership when sending such email, 
but in the same-time I can't blame people do. IMHO I think sending email to 
anonymous without stating your positions is useless especially for those who 
didn't have enough information about AFRINIC - and I think the group received 
Wafa message is one of them.
I also didn't see that Wafa should apologies and we are not in a position to 
punish her, this is just a different way to communicate. Its OK to notifying 
her with our opinions - that why we are here in a community list -  but we need 
to respect our diversity.

BR

Dr. Sami H.O. Salih
Assistant Prof, School of Electronics Engineering, SUST
Head of R&D, NTC, SUDAN
President of SDv6TF
T/F: (249)122045707/187171355
________________________________
From: Owen DeLong <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 7:55 AM
To: Sami Salih
Cc: Andrew Alston; Ahmed Fadl; wafa Dahmani; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

Sami,

I would hope that you (and others) can see the difference between your 
signature as SUST (which merely depicts an affiliation) and campaigning with a 
signature that purports to represent multiple groups seen by many in the 
community as authority figures and/or positions of responsibility within the 
community.

You will note, for example, that when I go to the microphone or post something 
on the list, I do not include anything about my membership on the ARIN advisory 
council and in many cases, will go out of my way to make it very clear that I 
am speaking only for myself and not representing the views of ARIN, the AC, etc.

IMHO, there’s nothing particularly wrong with the content of Wafa’s email, but, 
if she was going to put that content above the signature she did, she should 
have made it clear that those groups were not endorsing the candidates or 
opinions expressed.

Owen


On Jul 3, 2019, at 04:47 , Sami Salih 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Salam,

I see this email sent to individuals to support/campaign for some nominators 
(I'm not in agreement with all proposed names) who are among the public slat of 
AFRINIC candidates, IMHO any one is free to campaign. The undersigned signature 
represent the level of engagement of the sender in the community and gives the 
recipient more confident about her selection to the benefit of the community. 
This is too far from sponsoring youth and educate them in a way that may push 
them to support/oppose something.
My personal signature as SUST employee did't mean my view i this email 
represent SUST!

BR

Dr. Sami H.O. Salih
Assistant Prof, School of Electronics Engineering, SUST
Head of R&D, NTC, SUDAN
President of SDv6TF
T/F: (249)122045707/187171355
________________________________
From: Andrew Alston 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 2:28 PM
To: Ahmed Fadl; wafa Dahmani; 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections

This email raises so many questions.



While as I have clearly stated – I do not have ANY problem with anyone lobbying 
on behalf of candidates and their beliefs – however – I have serious issues 
when other groups that are meant to be neutral start doing this.



As such, I need some clarity based on the signatures of the email.



  1.  Is this email representative of the ASO /AC ‘s view
  2.  Is this email representative of the combined view of the AFRINIC Appeal 
committee – and how does that align with the neutrality that is meant to exist 
in such a committee.
  3.  Is this email representative of the views of Global IGF?



I really hope not – but – I have to ask – since that is what the email was 
signed as.



Thanks



Andrew





From: Ahmed Fadl <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Sent: Wednesday, 3 July 2019 14:15
To: wafa Dahmani <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Community-Discuss] AFRINIC Borad Elections



Hi Wafa,





Thanks for your email.



I, among other members of AFRINIC in Egypt, received the following email from 
you many times.



I wondered at that time why should I vote for these candidates specially for 
those in Eastern and Southern regions while each one was the sole candidate in 
his region. I quote this from your email "Ladies and Gentlemen, in the context 
of our strategy ...." what is your strategy and who are you ?





If you are talking about biasing the community, So, do you consider your email 
as a "member of the appeal committee; ASO / AC excom member and Ex Chair of 
Governance Committee '(GC) at AFRINIC." fall under what ?



I sent this mail many time but I don’t know why I can’t find this mail on 
community





Thanks,



Ahmed Fadl





From: wafa Dahmani [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 1:05 PM
To: wafa Dahmani <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: AFRINIC Borad Elections







Dear,

 My name is Wafa Dahmani from Tunisia, an active member of the African 
community and more specifically AFRINIC: member of the appeal committee; ASO / 
AC excom member and Ex Chair of Governance Committee '(GC) at AFRINIC.
I contact you to solicit your votes for the following candidates:

Board of Directors:
North Africa (seat 1)

  *   Habin Youssef

West Africa (seat 2)

  *   Ly Ousmane

South Africa (seat 5)

  *   Mpisane Vika William

East Africa (seat 6)

  *   Nkusi Robert Ford

Non-regional (seat 7)

  *   Eshun Benjamin Adzenyamebeye



Election Number Resource Organization Number Council

  *   Mustapha Ben Jemaa

Election Policy Development Working Group

  *   Komi Elitcha
  *   Sami Hassan

Election Governance Committee

  *   Daniel Nanghaka

Ladies and Gentlemen, in the context of our strategy  and in order to preserve 
AFRINIC's interests for Africa and to be able to choose the right candidates 
for North Africa in the long term, it is desirable to join all our efforts and 
vote for these candidates who presents the best choice for an adequate board
the de facto vote online through your interface with AFRINIC is very simple for 
all categories except the policy development Working group where we want you to 
mobilize your teams on the spot to vote for our candidates
We strongly solicit your support

Thank you

Wafa Dahmani

member AFRINIC Appeal Committee
Global IGF MAG member
ASO / AC excom member
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