<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><br><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">I oppose the implementation of this suggestion.<div><br></div><div>No rule prohibiting what Paul and I did existed prior to our doing it. I don’t see any way in which it impacted the integrity of the election process.</div><div><br></div><div>However, it has been made clear that such conduct is not desired and I see no reason that simply making that fact known is not sufficient. Going to written-only or pre-fabricated speeches is an unnecessary overreaction, IMHO.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 4, 2014, at 9:04 AM, ARIN <<a href="mailto:info@arin.net">info@arin.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">A new suggestion was received through the ACSP, and was assigned number<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>2014.10 upon receipt of confirmation.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">The text of the Suggestion is available at:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2014-10.html">https://www.arin.net/participate/acsp/suggestions/2014-10.html</a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">ARIN will issue an initial response within 10 business days.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Regards,</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"> </p><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">Communications and Member Services</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;">American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"> </p><span></span><br><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">***</span><span style="font-family: Times;"><o:p></o:p></span><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br>Suggestion:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><br>With election time starting to be on the horizon again, it's time for ARIN to address the events of October in Phoenix, where an outgoing Board member hijacked the agenda to stump for his preferred board candidates, and an AC candidate used his speech time to endorse others.<br><br>I think that for the integrity of the ARIN election process to remain intact, ARIN either needs to remove candidate speeches and stick to written materials, or have the speeches given in premade form like a video or something on the ARIN website.</div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Cambria;"><br><br><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>_______________________________________________<br>arin-suggestions mailing list<br><a href="mailto:arin-suggestions@arin.net">arin-suggestions@arin.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-suggestions">http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-suggestions</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br><br></div></div><br></body></html>