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On 12 May 2017, at 11:53 AM, William Herrin <<a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us" class="">bill@herrin.us</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div dir="ltr" class="">On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:26 AM, John Curran <span dir="ltr" class="">
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<div class="">Diversity of background is specifically about the trustee, whereas representation is with<br class="">
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<div class="">regard to the process by which a community selects its representative (the representative </div>
<div class="">may not even reside or work in that locale, but simply be see as an optimum representative </div>
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<div class="">Hi John,</div>
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<div class="">Maximum 2 seats employed by holders of more than a /16?</div>
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<div class="">One seat must be for someone associated with address holdings under /20?</div>
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<div class="">One seat for folks associated with cellular carriers? One for last-mile wireline carriers?</div>
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<div class="">One seat for someone who grep up poor? One for someone who grew up in a rural area?</div>
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<div class="">"Background diversity" sounds very wiggly to me. Maybe we ought to have a more objective criteria before considering any alternations to ARIN's structure in support of the concept.</div>
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<div> Full agreement here… One can consider a very wide range of possible factors once specific </div>
<div> criteria for diversity of background is to be established. In general, the Board has, other than</div>
<div> encouraging the NomCom to pay attention to such in slate selection, tried to stay out of such</div>
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<div> the voting process.</div>
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<div> The proposal to increase the size of the Board provides more chances for the membership </div>
<div> to express their views, and while it is possible that all nine elected Board members would </div>
<div> have similar background, that is less like to occur than with six elected Board members.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
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