<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Correction…<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Under the previously stated disenfranchisement proposal, and the already published 2022 fee schedule, end-user member organizations</div><div class="">are being coerced into membership whether they want it or not, and as a result, the board is attempting to create a new category of</div><div class="">membership specifically designed to disenfranchise them by default.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They will all be members, whether they choose it or not. The question is whether they will be disenfranchised^wservice members or</div><div class="">voting members.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 28, 2021, at 14:19 , Paul Andersen - ARIN <<a href="mailto:paul@arin.net" class="">paul@arin.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Richard,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is hard to predict future actions since the membership will fluctuate based on engagement in the process. Looking at the last election:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.arin.net/announcements/20201103_election/" class="">https://www.arin.net/announcements/20201103_election/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There were 603 Member Orgs who voted for the BoT, 595 who voted for the AC. I’d make an educated guess that there is high overlap between the two. But a larger pool of potential members will come with the End Users who will be eligible to become members but it is hard to know how many will want to be engaged. Nor can we tell whether a mandate to vote to stay a member may engage more members.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">P.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 28, 2021, at 5:15 PM, Richard Laager <<a href="mailto:rlaager@wiktel.com" class="">rlaager@wiktel.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">If I'm understanding correctly, the change is to go from 2% of General Members to MIN(2% of General Members, 100). How many General Members are there? Without knowing what 2% of General Members is, it's hard to put the 100 minimum in context.<br class=""></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">ARIN-Consult<br class="">You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Consult Mailing<br class="">List (<a href="mailto:ARIN-consult@arin.net" class="">ARIN-consult@arin.net</a>).<br class="">Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at:<br class=""><a href="https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult" class="">https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult</a> Please contact the ARIN Member Services<br class="">Help Desk at <a href="mailto:info@arin.net" class="">info@arin.net</a> if you experience any issues.<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>