<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Adam,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your review.<br><div><br></div><div>The Board's Governance Working Group (GWG) has been evaluating board operations for the past two years. The topics of these consultations have been under systematic review as part of this process, in keeping with our fiduciary duties. <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Peter</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 9:11 PM Adam Thompson <<a href="mailto:athompso@athompso.net">athompso@athompso.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Scott, it sounds to me like you’ve restated what the original email said correctly, but the language is such that I’m not 100% positive, either! I wish communications from ARIN used RFC vocabulary
and style, stopped using passive voice, and stopped using conditional verb tenses except where actually required. However, that’s not the subject under discussion.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>This last year, we’ve seen that a good many people are quite unhappy with the current NomCom process(es), and in at least some cases, /prima facie/, seemingly with good cause.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The proposal sounds like a good step to me. I don’t think it’s perfect, in fact I can already see that it’s not perfect. Nonetheless, I don’t see any major blockers where I feel the need to argue
*<b>against</b>* this change – I think it goes in the right direction, and the NomCom simultaneously is critical, needs to protected from too much change too rapidly (lest the elections turn into a farce), yet also needs SOME change applied to it ASAP.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I think the ARIN community needs to go through at least two or three nomination cycles with new rules to find out how they work and how they “feel” to both the [potential] candidates and the membership.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>There is a small privacy concern, but IMHO anyone who’s uncomfortable with the possibility of publicly being known as someone who wasn’t the NomCom’s perfect candidate… probably shouldn’t be running
for the board of an organization this public and transparent in the first place. And if the NomCom still rejects someone out of hand, it’s still private… whether it should be or not? I’m willing to take baby steps towards figuring that out.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I would also like to see the NomCom provide anonymized statistics covering all the steps, from #A people were submitted for consideration, #B were rejected due to <unable to qualify>, #C were qualified,
#D were well-qualified, #E were recommended, etc., etc.. I don’t see this addressed either in the text or the accompanying PDF – have I missed something?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>It’s disturbing to learn that ARIN has apparently had reports recommending these changes since 2010, and a second set of recommendations in 2018 - but it seemingly took a fair-sized uproar this year
to do anything with that information. Then, John (et al.), why did you pay for not one but two 3<sup>rd</sup>-party reports in the first place if they were just going to gather dust? This isn’t ultimately material to the adoption of the recommendations,
it just points out that they may be more overdue than the membership realized.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>-Adam</span></p></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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