[ARIN-consult] Consultation on Proposed Bylaws Changes

[Owen DeLong]

Calling what happens in AfriNIC “solved” is an interesting choice of words.

The AfriNIC system is a bit more complicated as is the problem there.

Each of the “regions” within AfriNIC’s service area contains one country that would outright dominate any regional
election making it impossible to recruit or elect candidates from the other countries.

For example, South Africa would completely dominate the southern region, Nigeria would completely dominate the
Western region, etc.

AfriNIC somewhat gets around this by requiring candidates to be “resident” in the region they theoretically represent,
but the seats are elected by the membership at large, not by the members from within their region.

I would not advocate such a thing in the ARIN region.

I did like the idea of one board member from each sub-region (1 from Canada, 1 from US, 1 from Caribbean) plus 3 elected at large and one (appointed unlimited term) CEO.

I’m uncertain of the need for the potential 8th board member.

I agree that creating a “quota slot” is a bad idea for the reasons outlined.

If we do go to a geographic system, I’d like to make sure that any sub-regionalized board members are both resident in the specified sub-region and elected by members from within the specified sub-region based on the ORG’s registered address in the ARIN database.

However, that would leave the question as to what sub-region would get Antarctica, US minor outlying islands, etc. if and/or when we ever have any members in any of those locations.

Owen

> On Mar 5, 2016, at 05:50 , Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> I agree.
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>>> I would like to see better geographic diversity, essentially meaning, "Someone from the Caribbean region,”
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> Since I like to make trouble, please find attached a slide I put together for the January ARIN board meeting.
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> <Untitled.pdf>
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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.
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> Thoughts?
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>                                -Bill
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