Randy,
Thanks for giving me a lead in!
ARIN has been gradually evolving and tweaking the governance over the past
fifteen years. Given it’s a small board it’s been generally done at the full
Board historically.
We’ve recently started to take a long look at a variety of issues to see if
there is a better way to structure ourselves to deliver the mission and stay
accountable to the community.
We do have a small sub-set working given there is a lot of things to go through
and I am leading the charge on that issue for the ARIN Board. Over the coming
months we'll be more formally looking for community input on a variety of
governance and accountability issues. In the interim we're happy to take any
informal input directly.
The specific point you mention in regards to term limits has been taken out of
context in that the thought was that as part of a larger process we should
likely go ask our various communities their thoughts on this and other issues
which seems to be in line with what your asking.
And no - not embarrassed… However the always colourful feedback is appreciated
and will be taken into account.
Cheers,
-p
—
Paul Andersen
EGATE Networks Inc.
e: [email protected]
On Mar 25, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote:
> omg! a friend just sent this great example of how far down we have gone
>
> https://www.arin.net/about_us/committeecharters.html#governance
>
> there is a governance committee. guess the composition. "The Committee
> shall consist of three elected members from the Board of Trustees." how
> wonderfully corrupt.
>
> and this is the self same board which could not agree to limit their own
> terms, <https://www.arin.net/about_us/bot/bot2012_1025.html>. "The Board
> discussed term limits for its members and members of the ARIN AC. No
> consensus was reached."
>
> my youngest granddaughter's kindergarten has better governance.
>
> and they're not even embarrassed. sheesh!
>
>
