[arin-announce] Prioritize the Questions for the 2020 ARIN Election Candidate Forums

[ARIN]

As we announced a few weeks ago, there will be Candidate Forums for both 
the Board of Trustees and Advisory Council candidates at the virtual 
ARIN 46 Members Meeting on Friday, 23 October. We now need your 
assistance in narrowing down the list of questions to be posed to the 
candidates.

We accepted questions from the community from 22 September to 2 October, 
and now we are interested in finding out which of these suggested 
questions are most interesting or important to you. You can rank the 
suggested questions anonymously using our online form before 5:00 PM EDT 
on 13 October:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2020RankQuestions

During the sessions on 23 October at ARIN 46, a moderator will select 
from the top-ranked questions and ask each candidate to answer the 
selected questions. Note that there will be no questions taken onsite 
from the audience. The Board of Trustees Candidate Forum takes place 
from 12:30 – 1:00 PM and the Advisory Council Candidate Forum will be 
from 1:30 – 2:15 PM.

We hope these sessions give you, the voter, a better understanding of 
where each candidate falls on the issues that matter most to you. We 
believe this will help all of our voters make a more informed decision 
when it comes time to cast their ballots during the week of elections, 
which is such an important time for our community.

As a reminder, the Final Slate of Candidates was announced on 4 October. 
You may review all the candidate bios, their views on issues already 
covered in the candidate questionnaire and read or make statements of 
support at:

https://www.arin.net/announcements/20201004_finalslate/

If you have any questions about the elections or these Candidate Forums, 
please contact us at members at arin.net. We look forward to hearing from you!

Regards,

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)