<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"> Hello Sander and ripe-list, ASO AC (Address Supporting Organization Address Council) as a collective has a defined scope. Our responsibilities are limited to: <ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">Undertaking a role in the global policy development process.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">Defining procedures for the selection of individuals to serve on other ICANN bodies, in particular on the ICANN Board, and implementing any roles assigned to the AC in such procedures. The ASO AC selects ICANN Board seats 9 and 10.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">Providing advice to the ICANN Board on number resource allocation policy, in conjunction with the RIRs.</li></ol> Information about ASO AC can be found at <a href="https://aso.icann.org/" style="text-decoration:none">https://aso.icann.org/</a> Wafa Dahmani is indeed a member of the current ASO AC from AfriNIC region, appointed by the AfriNIC Board. We can confirm that she has sent this mail in her individual capacity and her mail does not reflect any ASO AC views as a collective. Since your mail to the ripe-list, she has sent a follow-up mail to the AfriNIC Mailing list acknowledging this herself too. Kind regards, Filiz Yilmaz, Hervé Clément, Nurani Nimpuno </div></div></div></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 3:13 PM Sander Steffann <<a href="mailto:sander@steffann.nl">sander@steffann.nl</a>> wrote: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi RIPE ASO/AC delegates, I just read the following on the Afrinic community mailing list, and got a bit concerned: > My name is Wafa Dahmani from Tunisia, an active member of the African community and more specifically AFRINIC: member of the appeal committee; ASO / AC excom member and Ex Chair of Governance Committee '(GC) at AFRINIC. > I contact you to solicit your votes for the following candidates: > [etc] While she doesn't explicitly state that she is soliciting votes on behalf of the ASO/AC, it does seem to imply it. I found it hard to believe that the ASO/AC would agree with this statement as sent by Wafa. I know questions about this have already been sent to the ASO/AC, but I would like some feedback from our own delegates. I wonder whether you were aware of this and what your positions on this are. I suspect that this was not something agreed to by the ASO/AC, or at least not by our own delegates, but I would like that confirmed please :) I though long whether to cross-post this to the ripe-list and in the end decided that I should, for transparency's and accountability's sake. Cheers, Sander </blockquote></div>