<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="">MIchael - <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>FYI - We’ll not be addressing suggestions to change ARIN's election process while we have an election is presently underway – you should hold such discussion until this election cycle is over. We have several suggestions that have already been submitted regarding ARIN’s election process, and you can wait until those are considered or submit your own to the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process <<a href="https://www.arin.net/participate/community/acsp/:" class="">https://www.arin.net/participate/community/acsp/:</a>> as you prefer. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The consultation presently before us is for discussion on the change to ARIN’s membership structure to add a service member category and provide for service members who wish to become general members with voting privileges. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class="">/John</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">John Curran</div><div class="">President and CEO</div><div class="">American Registry for Internet Numbers</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 29 Oct 2021, at 10:40 AM, Michael Richardson <<a href="mailto:mcr@sandelman.ca" class="">mcr@sandelman.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="content-isolator__container"><div class="protected-part"><div class="protected-title">Signed PGP part</div><div class="protected-content"><br class="">John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net" class="">jcurran@arin.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Our petition threshold is set as a percentage of general members, so<br class="">the moment that the general member count becomes reflective of the<br class="">actively involved community rather than just the count of ISPs in ARIN,<br class="">then the 2% petition threshold will drop – and this despite the fact<br class="">that the active community will be the same size as today or even<br class="">larger.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Why not set the petition threshold to be a running average of the past 3-4<br class="">years of electoral turnout? That would accomodate changes well without<br class="">screwing up the process.<br class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><iframe class="content-isolator__isolated-content" sandbox="allow-scripts" scrolling="auto" width="200" height="10" style="border:none;display:block;overflow:auto;" data-src="data:text/html;charset=UTF-8;base64,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"></iframe></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>