[ARIN-consult] FW: Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for the ARIN Board of Trustees

Wed Dec 1 16:30:24 EST 2021

Returning misdirected mail to the discussion thread.

From: Chris Woodfield <chris at semihuman.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at 1:58 PM
To: John Comfort <john at comfortconsulting.com>
Cc: ARIN <info at arin.net>
Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for the ARIN Board of Trustees

I’m curious on your thoughts as to why efforts to create a more diverse governorship body for ARIN is a bad thing for ARIN and/or the community. Care to explain how this would negatively impact the community?

Thanks,

-Chris

On Dec 1, 2021, at 10:51 AM, John Comfort via ARIN-consult <arin-consult at arin.net> wrote:

From: John Comfort <john at comfortconsulting.com>

Subject: Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Term Limits for the ARIN Board of Trustees

Date: December 1, 2021 at 10:51:54 AM PST

To: ARIN <info at arin.net>

Cc: "arin-consult at arin.net" <arin-consult at arin.net>

Is this merely a rehash of the "Consultation on Increasing the size of the ARIN Board of Trustees" discussion on implementing politicized "Diversity"?

Is the Board unanimous on this issue? If not, what are the dissenting opinions?

Who is the independent consultant/consulting agency ARIN hired for this endeavor?  What were their objectives specifically?

On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 9:53 AM ARIN <info at arin.net> wrote:

The Board of Trustees maintains authority over the scope, mission, and along with the President and Chief Executive Officer establishes ARIN’s strategic direction and fiscal oversight. The Board also has oversight authority of the nomination, appointment, and election of individuals to Board committees and similar roles.

Over the past two years, as part of its fiduciary duties, the ARIN Board of Trustees (“Board”) has undertaken a review of ARIN’s governance structures, including the imposition of term limits on the Board. As part of this effort, an independent, outside consultant was engaged to review ARIN’s governance structures and provide recommendations.

One recommendation that has arisen from this governance review is to impose term limits on the Board for several reasons. Term limits would provide the ability for the community to realize the following benefits:

1. Balance of continuity with healthy turnover;
2. Support ongoing opportunity to expand and enhance the Board’s membership;
3. Greater introduction of differing views and fresh perspectives amongst the Board;
4. Periodic renewed look at structures and governance; and
5. More opportunities for participation by members of the community.

Board Proposal

ARIN will impose term limits on the elected seats of the Board.

The term limits will permit elected Board members to serve three consecutive 3-year terms before requiring a two-year period during which such Board members are ineligible to serve on the Board.

Current Board members may serve out the remainder of their current term, and the term limits will be imposed upon any subsequent re-election to the Board. Any current Board member would therefore be eligible to serve three additional terms upon re-election, to ensure continuity, orderly succession, and prevent precipitous loss of corporate memory.

ARIN seeks community feedback on this proposed imposition of term limits on the Board. This consultation will remain open for 15 days.

Please provide comments to arin-consult at arin.net. You can subscribe to this mailing list at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult.

Discussion on arin-consult at arin.net will close on 15 December 2021.

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