On 17 Jun 2025, at 12:31, Andrew Alston via zanog-discuss zanog-discuss@lists.nog.net.za wrote:
When I was on the board - the board never reviewed applications - that was not the boards responsibility. We have zero sight of what was being applied for - or the process used to evaluate the applications.
That would be like asking the board of any corporation to review individual sales of products the company was selling - it doesn't happen, and would never happen - that is not the function of a board.
Some fun background I re-read recently for my reporting about this.
(Summary: It corroborates what Andrew said RE board involvement in resource applications.)
Discussion about CIL on the RPD mailing list circa 2014:
https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2014/004185.html https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2014/004191.html https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2014/004194.html https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2014/004206.html https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/rpd/2014/004215.html
Then the subsequent board meeting:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241023192256/http://afrinic.net/board/meeting/...
Lots of gems in those minutes. Like Andrew getting in a kerfuffle with some other board members over making an audio recording of the meeting.
Also see "Discussion and decision about the Board Statement regarding the case of a particular resource application."
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