[arin-discuss] Term Limit Proposal

[Jawaid Bazyar]

Democracy is overrated. But term limits are a bad idea.

Paul notes a couple reasons - you lose talent and experience.

I will add another one. When you term limit the people who are elected, 
power will shift to the permanent bureaucracy - the aides, the managers, 
etc and away from the people who are elected and accountable to the 
membership. Power shifting from the elected to the unelected is the 
precise opposite of what people hope for from term limits.


On 03/25/2014 10:33 AM, Paul Timmins wrote:
> I have concerns that forcing people out of a position where people 
> repeatedly vote for them is undemocratic, and can threaten the 
> stability of the regulatory regime by forcing people with experience 
> out of a role when their judgement may be perfectly okay and properly 
> reflect community consensus.
>
> It also can promote inappropriate industry influence by allowing large 
> players to target roles well in advance knowing a certain candidate 
> will be out of the election to cause undue influence on ARIN's policies.
>
> Additionally, the proposal is being floated by someone who has been on 
> the BOT for 6 years, and thus their judgement may be clouded because 
> they've been on the BOT too long.
>
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