[170251] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: arin representation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Andersen)
Tue Mar 25 16:36:13 2014
From: Paul Andersen <paul@egate.net>
In-Reply-To: <m28uryyhpp.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:55:06 +0800
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Randy,
Thanks for giving me a lead in!
ARIN has been gradually evolving and tweaking the governance over the =
past fifteen years. Given it=92s a small board it=92s been generally =
done at the full Board historically.
We=92ve recently started to take a long look at a variety of issues to =
see if there is a better way to structure ourselves to deliver the =
mission and stay accountable to the community.=20
We do have a small sub-set working given there is a lot of things to go =
through and I am leading the charge on that issue for the ARIN Board. =
Over the coming months we'll be more formally looking for community =
input on a variety of governance and accountability issues. In the =
interim we're happy to take any informal input directly.
The specific point you mention in regards to term limits has been taken =
out of context in that the thought was that as part of a larger process =
we should likely go ask our various communities their thoughts on this =
and other issues which seems to be in line with what your asking.
And no - not embarrassed=85 However the always colourful feedback is =
appreciated and will be taken into account.
Cheers,
-p=09
On Mar 25, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
> omg! a friend just sent this great example of how far down we have =
gone
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> https://www.arin.net/about_us/committeecharters.html#governance
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> there is a governance committee. guess the composition. "The =
Committee
> shall consist of three elected members from the Board of Trustees." =
how
> wonderfully corrupt.
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> and this is the self same board which could not agree to limit their =
own
> terms, <
> >. "The Board
> discussed term limits for its members and members of the ARIN AC. No
> consensus was reached."
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> my youngest granddaughter's kindergarten has better governance.
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> and they're not even embarrassed. sheesh!
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> randy
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