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style="font-size:0;"><td align="center" style="padding:0 0 0 16px;vertical-align:middle;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="white-space:nowrap;color:#000001;font-size:14.67px;font-family:Calibri,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;text-align:left;"><tr style="font-size:14.67px;"><td style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,sans-serif;">We build customized end‑to‑end technology solutions powered by NetFire Cloud.</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div>On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 5:33 PM John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net">jcurran@arin.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Alan - <br>
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Pretty much correct - if you are a general member and did not vote in any of the past three elections, you will become a service member for the coming year. We intend to conduct that review annually after each election starting after the ARIN 2023 election. <br>
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FYI,<br>
/John<br>
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John Curran<br>
President and CEO<br>
American Registry for Internet Numbers<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hey John,</div><div>What's the problem that this change seeks to solve, specifically? If a member only chooses to vote in every 4, or 5 elections, shouldn't that be the prerogative of said member and not subject them to sanctions such as being bumped down a category and losing the right to vote which is generally afforded to all dues-paying members? </div><div><br></div><div>Open questions to others to help me see the light on why this would be proposed...</div><div>Are there any other non-profit entities in the technology space that do this or something similar to this which and what have their experiences been? What benefits have they reaped from it? </div><div><br></div><div>How would the optics for something like this be anything but negative given that it would almost certainly open ARIN up to criticism for being less democratically-governed? </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Matt</div><div><br></div></div></div>
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