[ARIN-consult] Consultation on Proposed Bylaws Changes

[Bill Woodcock]

> On Mar 5, 2016, at 2:32 PM, Lee Howard <spiffnolee at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I spoke with a friend who leads Diversity and Inclusion Programs for a company we've all heard of, who said that this seat would feel like a quota seat.

I agree.

>> I would like to see better geographic diversity, essentially meaning, "Someone from the Caribbean region,”

Since I like to make trouble, please find attached a slide I put together for the January ARIN board meeting.

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This is, essentially, how AfriNIC resolved their very difficult intra-regional representation problem.  They have seats allocated by sub-region, and candidates run for a seat.  If you just divided our six elected seats up by population, you’d get 5.33 seats for the U.S., 0.59 of a seat for Canada, and 0.08 of a seat for the Caribbean.  Personally, I wouldn’t like to be divided into .33, so I proposed three seats for the U.S., two for Canada, and one for the Caribbean, which should give the Caribbean and Canada little cause for complaint.

Thoughts?

                                -Bill




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