On Mon, Jul 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM Seun Ojedeji seun.ojedeji@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Andrew,

I don't see why the election would stop

Really? .... see comments below;

AFRINIC Bylaws *section 9* - https://afrinic.net/bylaws#b20-9 (*Nomination Committee*)

*There shall be a Nomination Committee (NomCom), which shall consist of a chairman and three other members as appointed by the Board and composed of qualified and experienced persons. The Board shall make a public call for voluntary nomination from the African Internet Community.*

AFRINIC Bylaws *section 10* - https://afrinic.net/bylaws#b20-10 (*Elections Committee*)

There is a reason why when we (resource members) framed the 2020 AFRINIC bylaws, the *NOMCOM was set up under Article 9* of the Constitution and came first and the *ECOM was set up under Article 10* of the Constitution and came last.

1. On Friday July 18, 2025 - *The 2025 AFRINIC Elections Updates: Appointment of Election Committee* - Heading where Mr. Dabee announced the ECOM composition 2. On Monday Jul 28, 2025 - *Constitution of new AFRINIC Nomination Committee 2025* - Heading where Mr. Dabee announced the NOMCOM composition

The NOMCOM gives the ECOM its mandate and the very existence of the ECOM is only possible after the NOMCOM has been constituted.

The process of the NOMCOM composition is a resource member's prerogative. The Board (in this case the Receiver) was supposed to engage the community/resource members to formulate the NOMCOM inline with section 9 of the bylaws and ensure the NOMCOM is composed of a *chairman and three other members* (maximum four individuals) as appointed by the Board (in this case the Receiver).

I will not even go onto the messy process where the community/resource members were initially given 48 hours to participate in the NOMCOM appointment process only for AFRINIC to extend the deadline to another couple of days and then extend again to 23rd July in complete departure from the previous years election process and precedents. The NOMCOM Chair also makes most of the updates (elections guidelines and other updates before the polls) and during the election process, the ECOM seems to have taken over that role.

#nobending #rules @Seun ... let us follow the rules to the book or seek resource-members' consent to vary the rules through bottom-up consensus. #no bypassing the bylaws.

Cheers, Noah