April 2021 - Pdb-gov

Results of 2021 Election of PeeringDB Board of Directors
by Chris Caputo 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

The 2021 election for the PeeringDB Board of Directors has concluded. There were 4 candidates this year for 3 available Director seats. Of 98 organizations registered to vote, there were 86 votes. The winners in order of vote count and thus seat occupied: Seat 1 (term expires 2023): Patrick W. Gilmore Seat 3 (term expires 2023): Bijal Sanghani Seat 5 (term expires 2023): Christopher Malayter Appreciation to the other candidate who ran: Stephen McManus The new PeeringDB Board of Directors is: Seat 1 (term expires 2023): Patrick W. Gilmore Seat 2 (term expires 2022): Job Snijders Seat 3 (term expires 2023): Bijal Sanghani Seat 4 (term expires 2022): Aaron Hughes Seat 5 (term expires 2023): Christopher Malayter Detailed results including Single Transferable Vote (STV) stages: https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/misc/2021-04-30_Comprehensive_Poll_Results.p… Verify your votes with your receipt codes: https://www.bigpulse.com/disclosevotes?code=1619745156Vfb78HLXWnFE827YPcnm For STV first timers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI Thanks to all of the candidates and the community for participating. My personal thanks to Steve Feldman for observing the election. Questions welcome! Respectfully, Chris Caputo PeeringDB Secretary/Treasurer

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PeeringDB Board Election voter registration - last call
by Chris Caputo 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

This is the last call to register for the current election. I have just re-sent out ballots to those registered voters who have not yet voted. If you have not received your ballot or need to register, please contact me. Registration form below. (Ballots come from bigpulse.com with a Reply-To: of secretary(a)peeringdb.com and may be in your junk folder.) So far 72 of 93 registered voters have voted. The election ends April 29th 23:59 UTC. Votes may be revised by you, so feel free to vote now and revise your vote later as desired. Thanks, Chris Caputo PeeringDB Secretary/Treasurer ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 01:52:13 +0000 (UTC) To: pdb-gov(a)lists.peeringdb.com Subject: [PDB Gov] PeeringDB Board Election voter registration NOTE: If you have already received your ballot, feel free to ignore this message unless you need to update your previous registration. Ballots were already sent to everyone who voted last year, so please check your junk folders if you voted last year, before re-applying to vote. You are receiving this email as a subscriber to the PeeringDB pdb-gov Governance mailing list. We are using a voting web site known as BigPulse to conduct the April 15th through 29th PeeringDB Board election. Before you can get access to the ballot at BigPulse, we need to know that you are the sole authorized representative voter for an organization with an active PeeringDB account. Further, we need to confirm that your organization is not affiliated with any other organization intending to vote. The Bylaws up at https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/legaldocs/2015-12-08_PeeringDB_Bylaws.pdf govern affiliation as follows: - '2.3.2 Members who are affiliated with each other are entitled to a total of one vote upon each issue. "Affiliate" means, with respect to a particular person, any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such person.' If you intend to vote, please respond to this email with answers to the following. (If you are not voting or have already received a ballot, there is no need to respond to this email.) 1) Organization ASN: (put N/A if not applicable) ________________________________________________ 2) Organization Name: ________________________________________________ 3) I am the sole authorized voter for this organization: (yes or no) ________________________________________________ 4) This organization is affiliated (per the definition above) with these other ASNs/organizations: (put N/A if not applicable) ________________________________________________ 5) Email address to which BigPulse should send the ballot login, if different than your own: (example: peering(a)example.net) ________________________________________________ The Policy or other contact email address in your organization's PeeringDB record will be informed that you are voting for your organization, so please make sure you are pre-authorized to do so. For the month of April, email to secretary(a)peeringdb.com goes to election observer Steven Feldman and myself. Regards, Chris Caputo PeeringDB Secretary/Treasurer

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PeeringDB Board Election voter registration - a reminder
by Chris Caputo 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

I have just re-sent out ballots to those registered voters who have not yet voted. If you have not received your ballot or need to register, please contact me. Registration form below. (Ballots come from bigpulse.com with a Reply-To: of secretary(a)peeringdb.com and may be in your junk folder.) So far 56 of 93 registered voters have voted. The election ends April 29th 23:59 UTC. Votes may be revised by you, so feel free to vote now and revise your vote later as desired. Thanks, Chris Caputo PeeringDB Secretary/Treasurer ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 01:52:13 +0000 (UTC) To: pdb-gov(a)lists.peeringdb.com Subject: [PDB Gov] PeeringDB Board Election voter registration NOTE: If you have already received your ballot, feel free to ignore this message unless you need to update your previous registration. Ballots were already sent to everyone who voted last year, so please check your junk folders if you voted last year, before re-applying to vote. You are receiving this email as a subscriber to the PeeringDB pdb-gov Governance mailing list. We are using a voting web site known as BigPulse to conduct the April 15th through 29th PeeringDB Board election. Before you can get access to the ballot at BigPulse, we need to know that you are the sole authorized representative voter for an organization with an active PeeringDB account. Further, we need to confirm that your organization is not affiliated with any other organization intending to vote. The Bylaws up at https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/legaldocs/2015-12-08_PeeringDB_Bylaws.pdf govern affiliation as follows: - '2.3.2 Members who are affiliated with each other are entitled to a total of one vote upon each issue. "Affiliate" means, with respect to a particular person, any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such person.' If you intend to vote, please respond to this email with answers to the following. (If you are not voting or have already received a ballot, there is no need to respond to this email.) 1) Organization ASN: (put N/A if not applicable) ________________________________________________ 2) Organization Name: ________________________________________________ 3) I am the sole authorized voter for this organization: (yes or no) ________________________________________________ 4) This organization is affiliated (per the definition above) with these other ASNs/organizations: (put N/A if not applicable) ________________________________________________ 5) Email address to which BigPulse should send the ballot login, if different than your own: (example: peering(a)example.net) ________________________________________________ The Policy or other contact email address in your organization's PeeringDB record will be informed that you are voting for your organization, so please make sure you are pre-authorized to do so. For the month of April, email to secretary(a)peeringdb.com goes to election observer Steven Feldman and myself. Regards, Chris Caputo PeeringDB Secretary/Treasurer

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PeeringDB Board Election voter registration
by Chris Caputo 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

NOTE: If you have already received your ballot, feel free to ignore this message unless you need to update your previous registration. Ballots were already sent to everyone who voted last year, so please check your junk folders if you voted last year, before re-applying to vote. You are receiving this email as a subscriber to the PeeringDB pdb-gov Governance mailing list. We are using a voting web site known as BigPulse to conduct the April 15th through 29th PeeringDB Board election. Before you can get access to the ballot at BigPulse, we need to know that you are the sole authorized representative voter for an organization with an active PeeringDB account. Further, we need to confirm that your organization is not affiliated with any other organization intending to vote. The Bylaws up at https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/legaldocs/2015-12-08_PeeringDB_Bylaws.pdf govern affiliation as follows: - '2.3.2 Members who are affiliated with each other are entitled to a total of one vote upon each issue. "Affiliate" means, with respect to a particular person, any entity that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with such person.' If you intend to vote, please respond to this email with answers to the following. (If you are not voting or have already received a ballot, there is no need to respond to this email.) 1) Organization ASN: (put N/A if not applicable) ________________________________________________ 2) Organization Name: ________________________________________________ 3) I am the sole authorized voter for this organization: (yes or no) ________________________________________________ 4) This organization is affiliated (per the definition above) with these other ASNs/organizations: (put N/A if not applicable) ________________________________________________ 5) Email address to which BigPulse should send the ballot login, if different than your own: (example: peering(a)example.net) ________________________________________________ The Policy or other contact email address in your organization's PeeringDB record will be informed that you are voting for your organization, so please make sure you are pre-authorized to do so. For the month of April, email to secretary(a)peeringdb.com goes to election observer Steven Feldman and myself. Regards, Chris Caputo PeeringDB Secretary/Treasurer

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PeeringDB Annual Member Meeting Minutes & Audio
by Chris Caputo 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

The PeeringDB annual member meeting was held on Thursday April 8th. Draft minutes: https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/legaldocs/2021-04-08_PeeringDB_Member_Meetin… - (If your name is missing from the list of attendees or needs correction, please email me.) Audio: (25 mins, 6 mb) https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/legaldocs/2021-04-08_PeeringDB_Member_Meetin… Other governance information: https://gov.peeringdb.com/ Chris Caputo PeeringDB Secretary/Treasurer

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Call for candidates for Board of Directors of PeeringDB & Member mtg reminder today
by Chris Caputo 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

The annual meeting is today, April 8th, 1600-1700 UTC! (a little over an hour from the time of this email) https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/724568317 [dial-in numbers below] A reminder of the below call for candidates. At present, the candidates for the three seats up for election this year are: - Patrick W. Gilmore - Christopher Malayter - Stephen McManus - Bijal Sanghani Chris Caputo PeeringDB Secretary/Treasurer ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 09:08:37 +0000 (UTC) From: Chris Caputo via Pdb-gov <pdb-gov(a)lists.peeringdb.com> Reply-To: Chris Caputo <secretary(a)peeringdb.com> To: pdb-gov(a)lists.peeringdb.com Subject: [PDB Gov] Call for candidates for Board of Directors of PeeringDB & Member mtg reminder This is a call for candidates for the Board of Directors of PeeringDB. - The second half of April, there will be an election for the Board of Directors. Like the last election, BigPulseVoting.com will be used, along with Single-Transferable-Vote (STV). The STV results table will be part of the election results. - Candidacies along with max 300 word statements should be submitted to secretary(a)peeringdb.com prior to April 15th. Anyone can run for election to the Board. The organization documents (Articles, Bylaws, etc), Board meeting minutes, and finances, are up at: https://gov.peeringdb.com/ There are 5 seats on the Board of Directors, 3 of which are up for election this year. A Director term is 2 years. Election dates are UTC. Candidates must submit their name and a maximum 300 word statement, as determined by the POSIX "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 wc -w" command, by April 14th 23:59:59 UTC 2021. A voter's guide containing the current list of candidates and statements, sorted alphabetically by last name, will be kept updated at: https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/misc/2021-04-14_election.html Candidates may revise their statements until the April 15th UTC cut-off. Please submit your candidacy or questions/concerns to secretary(a)peeringdb.com. Please know that for the month of April, email to secretary(a)peeringdb.com goes to secretary Chris Caputo and election observer Steve Feldman. Discussion/questions/concerns also welcome on pdb-gov(a)lists.peeringdb.com. Chris Caputo PeeringDB Secretary/Treasurer PS: The April Member Meeting agenda is below and calendar ICS file for it is attached. --- ** Notice of the Annual Meeting of PeeringDB - Thursday April 8th, 2021 at 1600-1700 UTC ** The meeting will be held online as follows: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/724568317 [dial-in numbers below] ** The meeting will be recorded. ** Bylaws and important docs are posted at https://gov.peeringdb.com/ ** Please contact stewards(a)peeringdb.com if you have additional agenda suggestions. Agenda: - Call To Order - Aaron Hughes - Welcome & Thanks - Aaron Hughes - Approval of minutes from previous meeting - Aaron Hughes https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/legaldocs/2020-04-17_PeeringDB_Member_Meetin… - Financial Update & Call For Sponsors - Chris Caputo - Admin Committee Update - Arnold Nipper - Operations Committee Update - Job Snijders - Outreach Committee Update - Ben Ryall - Product Committee Update - Stephen McManus - Items brought up by the members / Technical and Policy Questions & Answers - Encourage Voting in Board Election - Aaron Hughes - Adjourn --- https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/724568317 You can also dial in using your phone. Access Code: 724-568-317 More phone numbers: Australia: +61 2 8355 1050 Austria: +43 7 2081 5427 Belgium: +32 28 93 7018 Brazil: +55 21 3500-3941 Bulgaria: +359 2 906 0605 Canada: +1 (647) 497-9391 Chile: +56 2 3214 9680 Colombia: +57 1 600 9953 Czech Republic: +420 2 55 71 95 02 Denmark: +45 43 31 47 82 Finland: +358 923 17 0568 France: +33 170 950 594 Germany: +49 721 9881 4161 Greece: +30 21 0 300 2583 Hungary: +36 1 933 3699 Ireland: +353 15 360 728 Israel: +972 3 376 3070 Italy: +39 0 247 92 13 01 Luxembourg: +352 34 2080 9219 Malaysia: +60 3 7724 4059 Mexico: +52 55 3687 7278 Netherlands: +31 207 941 377 New Zealand: +64 9 280 6302 Norway: +47 21 93 37 51 Panama: +507 308 4334 Peru: +51 1 642 9424 Romania: +40 31 780 1158 South Africa: +27 11 259 4924 Spain: +34 932 75 2004 Sweden: +46 853 527 827 Switzerland: +41 225 4599 78 Turkey: +90 212 900 4807 United Kingdom: +44 330 221 0088 United States: +1 571 317-3129 New to GoToMeeting? Get the app now and be ready when your first meeting starts: https://global.gotomeeting.com/install/724568317

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Call for candidates for Board of Directors of PeeringDB & Member mtg reminder
by Chris Caputo 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

This is a call for candidates for the Board of Directors of PeeringDB. - The second half of April, there will be an election for the Board of Directors. Like the last election, BigPulseVoting.com will be used, along with Single-Transferable-Vote (STV). The STV results table will be part of the election results. - Candidacies along with max 300 word statements should be submitted to secretary(a)peeringdb.com prior to April 15th. Anyone can run for election to the Board. The organization documents (Articles, Bylaws, etc), Board meeting minutes, and finances, are up at: https://gov.peeringdb.com/ There are 5 seats on the Board of Directors, 3 of which are up for election this year. A Director term is 2 years. Election dates are UTC. Candidates must submit their name and a maximum 300 word statement, as determined by the POSIX "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 wc -w" command, by April 14th 23:59:59 UTC 2021. A voter's guide containing the current list of candidates and statements, sorted alphabetically by last name, will be kept updated at: https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/misc/2021-04-14_election.html Candidates may revise their statements until the April 15th UTC cut-off. Please submit your candidacy or questions/concerns to secretary(a)peeringdb.com. Please know that for the month of April, email to secretary(a)peeringdb.com goes to secretary Chris Caputo and election observer Steve Feldman. Discussion/questions/concerns also welcome on pdb-gov(a)lists.peeringdb.com. Chris Caputo PeeringDB Secretary/Treasurer PS: The April Member Meeting agenda is below and calendar ICS file for it is attached. --- ** Notice of the Annual Meeting of PeeringDB - Thursday April 8th, 2021 at 1600-1700 UTC ** The meeting will be held online as follows: https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/724568317 [dial-in numbers below] ** The meeting will be recorded. ** Bylaws and important docs are posted at https://gov.peeringdb.com/ ** Please contact stewards(a)peeringdb.com if you have additional agenda suggestions. Agenda: - Call To Order - Aaron Hughes - Welcome & Thanks - Aaron Hughes - Approval of minutes from previous meeting - Aaron Hughes https://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/legaldocs/2020-04-17_PeeringDB_Member_Meetin… - Financial Update & Call For Sponsors - Chris Caputo - Admin Committee Update - Arnold Nipper - Operations Committee Update - Job Snijders - Outreach Committee Update - Ben Ryall - Product Committee Update - Stephen McManus - Items brought up by the members / Technical and Policy Questions & Answers - Encourage Voting in Board Election - Aaron Hughes - Adjourn --- https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/724568317 You can also dial in using your phone. Access Code: 724-568-317 More phone numbers: Australia: +61 2 8355 1050 Austria: +43 7 2081 5427 Belgium: +32 28 93 7018 Brazil: +55 21 3500-3941 Bulgaria: +359 2 906 0605 Canada: +1 (647) 497-9391 Chile: +56 2 3214 9680 Colombia: +57 1 600 9953 Czech Republic: +420 2 55 71 95 02 Denmark: +45 43 31 47 82 Finland: +358 923 17 0568 France: +33 170 950 594 Germany: +49 721 9881 4161 Greece: +30 21 0 300 2583 Hungary: +36 1 933 3699 Ireland: +353 15 360 728 Israel: +972 3 376 3070 Italy: +39 0 247 92 13 01 Luxembourg: +352 34 2080 9219 Malaysia: +60 3 7724 4059 Mexico: +52 55 3687 7278 Netherlands: +31 207 941 377 New Zealand: +64 9 280 6302 Norway: +47 21 93 37 51 Panama: +507 308 4334 Peru: +51 1 642 9424 Romania: +40 31 780 1158 South Africa: +27 11 259 4924 Spain: +34 932 75 2004 Sweden: +46 853 527 827 Switzerland: +41 225 4599 78 Turkey: +90 212 900 4807 United Kingdom: +44 330 221 0088 United States: +1 571 317-3129 New to GoToMeeting? Get the app now and be ready when your first meeting starts: https://global.gotomeeting.com/install/724568317

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