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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Reviewing the historical seated time of
past terms on the ARIN board seats.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Since January-2000, there have been 18
elected individuals who have filled 19 different seated-terms on
the ARIN board (one individual has served 2 non-consecutive
seated-terms).</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">By my calculations (including current
seated members through December 2021) I find the following details
about seated time in years.<br>
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<table width="259" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<colgroup><col
style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:7131;width:146pt"
width="195"> <col style="width:48pt" width="64"> </colgroup><tbody>
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<td class="xl65" style="height:15.0pt;width:146pt"
data-title="Dates of Service (and offices held, if any)"
width="195" height="20">Average</td>
<td style="width:48pt" width="64" align="right">6.18</td>
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<td class="xl65" style="height:15.0pt;width:146pt"
width="195" height="20">Median</td>
<td align="right">6</td>
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<td class="xl65" style="height:15.0pt;width:146pt"
width="195" height="20">Minimum</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
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<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td class="xl65" style="height:15.0pt;width:146pt"
width="195" height="20">Maximum</td>
<td align="right">15</td>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Using the proposed plan below of
maximum seated time of 9 years, 3 individuals would have been
termed-out and restricted from running in the past.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Based upon the data above it appears
that in general there has been routine rotation of the ARIN board
without term limits being imposed. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Having said that a term-limit of
12-years would seem to be in general a good practice to provide
some predictable rotation over the years, a 12-year limit would
have only termed out one previous serving individual. If the
ARIN board was to expand the number of seats as has been proposed
at various points in times past, I would think that term-limits
might become a more important part of ensuring that some rotation
does occur with regular frequency. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">If this board believes that it is
valuable to impose term-limits, then it should be willing to
impose those limits on themselves, not just future board seats. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">While I understand the desire to not
quickly term out after this practice is applied, if the board
adopted this policy in 2022 and applied the limit of 9 consecutive
years including past time served, only 1 member of the 2022 board
would be facing a restriction of being termed out when their
current term expired. If the board imposed a 12-year limit, all
2022 members would be permitted at least one additional 3-year
term.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hope this helps,</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Andrew<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/1/2021 9:53 AM, ARIN wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:7CD717E6-399A-47EC-8457-2AF7C6A72C32@arin.net">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arin-consult@arin.net">arin-consult@arin.net</a>. You can subscribe to this mailing list at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult">http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult</a>.
Discussion on <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arin-consult@arin.net">arin-consult@arin.net</a> will close on 15 December 2021.
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