<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="">I don’t (entirely) disagree, but I don’t want to replace incorrect limits with no limits.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 7, 2022, at 09:55 , Adam Thompson <<a href="mailto:athompson@merlin.mb.ca" class="">athompson@merlin.mb.ca</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" class="">I get your point… but that’s a bug, not a feature. What you’ve described below is precisely the problem we’re now noticing, or becoming aware of.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" class="">-Adam<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></p>
<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#44546A;background:white" class="">Adam Thompson</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#44546A;background:white" class=""><br class="">
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<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""> ARIN-consult <<a href="mailto:arin-consult-bounces@arin.net" class="">arin-consult-bounces@arin.net</a>>
<b class="">On Behalf Of </b>John Curran<br class="">
<b class="">Sent:</b> Friday, January 7, 2022 11:38 AM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b> Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:arin-consult@arin.net" class="">arin-consult@arin.net</a><br class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [ARIN-consult] Consultation on Implementing Single Transferrable Voting for ARIN Elections<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">On 7 Jan 2022, at 9:15 AM, Owen DeLong <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" class="">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif" class="">Currently, the membership is able to have faith that the board will not unilaterally move away from majority election of directors because<br class="">
Virginia law forbids it without a change to the articles of incorporation that they would have to approve.<br class="">
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The blanket language proposed in the current change, however, would allow the board to adopt any process it so chooses at any<br class="">
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I think many, myself included, would like to see some level of check and balance requiring membership and/or community involvement<br class="">
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">For clarity, I’d like to address the question you raise about Board latitude in ARIN election processes, as that is a topic that is not actually addressed by the present consultation. <o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Yes, the membership can rest assured under the present Articles and Bylaws that plurality voting will be used, but the remainder of the ARIN Election Processes are entirely under the control of the ARIN Board of Trustees with nominal constraints
given in ARIN Bylaws; i.e. the present Articles and Bylaws provide the Board of Trustees rather generous latitude in establishment of the Election processes and already the Bylaws substantially allow "the board to adopt any process it so chooses at any time
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">The proposed Article and Bylaws change in the consultation does not change this latitude in a material manner, other than opening up the possible use of a STV voting system rather than the Virginia default of plurality. I understand
that you’re suggesting that there should be much less Board latitude in establishing of ARIN’s Election Processes, but to some extent that is an orthogonal question to whether the ARIN Board be allowed to adopt election processes that specify STV voting model.<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">/John<o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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