[arin-discuss] Term Limit Proposal

[John Brown]

and when you don't term limit you can trend to stagnation and entrenchment.


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Jawaid Bazyar <
Jawaid.Bazyar at forethought.net> wrote:

> 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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