<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 17:25 Jay Hennigan <<a href="mailto:jay@impulse.net">jay@impulse.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">On 11/4/21 10:47, John Curran wrote:<br>
> Patrick -<br>
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> To be clear, this was the statement as prepared by Catherine Middleton, <br>
> in her role as Chair of this year’s Nomination Committee. The relevant <br>
> portion of the ARIN Election Process is attached for reference.<br>
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> 1.<br>
> In consultation with ARIN’s GC, the NomCom Chair may prepare an<br>
> explanatory statement of the relevant factors regarding a nominee<br>
> not included on an election slate.<br>
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Note: "In consultation with ARIN’s GC...."<br>
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>> On 4 Nov 2021, at 11:53 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <<a href="mailto:patrick@ianai.net" target="_blank">patrick@ianai.net</a> <br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:patrick@ianai.net" target="_blank">patrick@ianai.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
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>> Sounds to me like a lawyer wrote it, not a member of the NomCom.<br>
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>> Which implies the NomCom was not allowed to answer.<br>
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Yep. This pretty much confirms that Patrick was right.</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">“Prepared by” is also not “written by”. I’d feel ok with a guess by the style that John did a fair amount of editing too. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">$0.02</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-M<</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)" dir="auto"></blockquote></div></div>