<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=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 7, 2021, at 11:34 , Elvis Daniel Velea <<a href="mailto:elvis@velea.eu" class="">elvis@velea.eu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Hi Chris,<div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Sep 7, 2021, at 11:04, Chris Woodfield <<a href="mailto:chris@semihuman.com" class="">chris@semihuman.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class="">Don’t forget the the ultimate say does, in fact, lie with the community, in that the members of the Board and the Advisory Council are elected by the community.</div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Allow me to be skeptical about this statement too. I vaguely remember how a well respected board member was not ‘selected’ for candidacy for re-election and was not allowed to defend its seat because some group of people made a decision. This happened just a few years ago and I had quite a few chats with lots of community members that were outraged to see this is possible. It was during an ARIN Meeting in Vancouver, in 2018, if my memory serves me well.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yes, the nominating committee has broad discretion in eliminating candidates from the slate, including incumbents.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Also, they are not elected by the community, they are elected by the membership (in both cases, board and AC).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>As such, the members arguably have ultimate authority. The community has a say, but no actual authority.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">While there’s always the potential for a cynical take on the community’s ability to affect meaningful change when needed, I’d hope that any egregious policy decisions made by these bodies - decisions that the community agrees are not in line with their collective interests - would result in the Board and/or AC members responsible for those decisions having a much more difficult time with their future re-election campaigns than they would otherwise.</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PDP shouldn’t really work this way. Bottom-up either.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>In the ARIN region, it has been mostly functional as we have generally had both AC and Board members acting in good faith, along with staff doing the same.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>I will credit John’s long leadership with much of this. While John and I do not always agree, I have to say that he has done an excellent job of preserving this model of governance and ensuring that staff and the others involved in the process are behaving according to the requirements of their office(s). Much like the late senator McCain, though I rarely agreed with him, both “Johns" have given a great many years of good and faithful service to a public that owes them both gratitude and respect.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">/elvis</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 7, 2021, at 10:49 AM, Fernando Frediani <<a href="mailto:fhfrediani@gmail.com" class="">fhfrediani@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="auto" class="">Hi Elvis<div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I have the same view as you do.</div><div dir="auto" class="">Despite this undertanding (and maybe the Board too - and correct me if I don't reproduce it accuratelly) I refuse the view that "PDP is a concession of the Board to the Community" and - this is what makes it even more controvertial - that 'this does not void ICP-2" due to historical reasons or whatever justification.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">They are entiteled to their opinion but I do not believe that corrensponds to practical realitty.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">I sincerelly hope that not only ARIN Board by any other RIR Board never void the bottom-up process and respect the ultimate power of community to choose how policies will be, not the Board unilaterally at their will.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Obviouslly this doesn't confuse with the prerrogative of the RIR Board to care about the organization protection and legal protection and I support that including the prerrogative of the Boards to ractify proposals that reached consensus.</div><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div><div dir="auto" class="">Regards</div><div dir="auto" class="">Fernando</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, 14:10 Elvis Daniel Velea, <<a href="mailto:elvis@velea.eu" class="">elvis@velea.eu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">Hi,<br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Sep 7, 2021, at 09:10, Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML <<a href="mailto:arin-ppml@arin.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="">arin-ppml@arin.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class=""><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class=""><div class="">While the Board delegates the administration of policy development routinely to the ARIN AC, but it retains ultimate authority commensurate with the responsibility that they must bear for the organization.</div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>This is a very useful clarification to have available for those who continue to argue that the community is the ultimate authority on policy matters. Thank you.</div></blockquote><br class=""><div class="">Very surprised to see John explain how the bottom-up process works (or not) in ARIN and how much influence the ARIN Board has on policy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am also extremely surprised to see the difference in PDP between ARIN and the rest of the RIRs as per John’s statement above.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Elvis</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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