Are we saying that the membership and community are too impatient that a
message like this could not have waited a week or two until the new CEO
is burned in?

I didn't see anyone from the membership harassing the Board or AFRINIC
staff about needing urgent updates on legacy space ownership
manipulation :-\.

Mark.

On 6/Nov/19 16:24, Alioune Traore wrote:
> Bonjour,
> dans une période de transition il est tout à fait normal que le Board
> puisse donner 
> ces genres d'informations pour combler le vide du CEO.
> J'approuve donc le message du Board à cet effet.
>
> Dr Ing. Alioune Badara TRAORE 
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
> Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 à 08:50:46 UTC+1, Adewole Ajao
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>
> I agree, Mark. It's the current board-routed management mode that will
> cause fatigue and a perception of non-responsiveness. I'm sure the
> Board hears our concerns and will hasten the process of helping the
> CEO settle down into his new role. Being volunteers as well, they
> would/should be happy to have their AFRINIC management workload
> reduced ASAP. 
>
> Regards,
> Dewole.
>
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 8:20 AM Mark Tinka <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks, Dewole.
>
>     Perhaps the CEO needs to be given more leeway and authority when
>     communicating with the community. I am sure the CEO can use his
>     best judgment to determine when any information toward the public
>     needs to go by the Board for review.
>
>     I fear that if the CEO needs to run an inordinate amount of
>     operational matters via the Board (including communication),
>     fatigue will set in and little progress will be made.
>
>     Mark.
>
>     On 5/Nov/19 09:13, Adewole Ajao wrote:
>>     Makes sense. Especially on operational and PR issues such as
>>     this. Letting the CEO communicate will also reduce the sense of
>>     non-responsiveness that members sometimes feel (although it's
>>     unavoidable because the board has to convene and agree before any
>>     response can be given - even on simple issues whereas the CEO
>>     will be able to respond authoritatively to a large extent on
>>     behalf of AFRINIC the company).
>>
>>     Dewole.
>>
>>     On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 8:00 AM Mark Tinka <[email protected]
>>     <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>         Don't know if it's just me, but curious why this update (and
>>         the investigations associated with it) are not coming from
>>         our CEO.
>>
>>         I've consistently said that I feel the AFRINIC Board are too
>>         involved in AFRINIC's day-to-day affairs, which, IMHO, need
>>         to be managed by the AFRINIC CEO and his team, both in front
>>         of and behind the scenes.
>>
>>         I am somewhat disturbed that this culture does not appear to
>>         have changed even on the back of the appointment of the new CEO.
>>
>>         Personally, I'd rather be hearing from the CEO and/or any of
>>         his staff, than the Board.
>>
>>         Mark.
>>
>>         On 4/Nov/19 22:45, Bope Domilongo Christian wrote:
>>>         Dear Community at large,
>>>
>>>         As the community may also, be aware, AFRINIC has attracted
>>>         some media coverage relating to suspicious activity in its
>>>         WHOIS database primarily a limited section of legacy resources.
>>>
>>>         
On behalf of the Board, I would like to assure both the
>>>         AFRINIC membership and the Internet community at large that
>>>         the Board has conducted some preliminary assessment of the
>>>         matter, and would like to let you know that investigations
>>>         are progressing well and will be concluded soon, most likely
>>>         before or by the end of the year. We cannot reveal much or
>>>         go into further details at this stage as we do not want to
>>>         jeopardise the investigations. However, you can rest assured
>>>         that we will get to the bottom of the matter. At the same
>>>         time, we want to ensure that the rights of any affected
>>>         parties are respected and protected as per the law. All said
>>>         we are keen to ensure the interests of AFRINIC members are
>>>         safeguarded as we seek to maintain stable, reliable and
>>>         effective management of Internet resources. Besides, the
>>>         AFRINIC WHOIS database remains fully operational with high
>>>         standards of integrity.
>>>
>>>         Nevertheless, there is always room for improvement and
>>>         AFRINIC operations team is currently reviewing some of the
>>>         long-established processes relating to the management of
>>>         Internet resources under AFRINIC's ambit. The team
>>>         is already implementing some improvement measures at both
>>>         the IT Infrastructure and process level. As usual, the
>>>         AFRINIC membership will be appropriately apprised of the
>>>         developments.
>>>
>>>         Best regards, 
>>>         Dr Christian D. Bope
>>>         Chairman, AFRINIC Board of Directors
>>
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