[PDB Gov] Risk of excessive DE-CIX influence on PeeringDB

[Matthew Petach]

Hi Chris

Absolutely agree with you; someone earlier had suggested that since
Directors can also be members, that section 2.3.2 *might* be argued to
apply to votes being taken by the Board as well.  It's a weak claim, but
one that could be made in the absence of clearer language.

I do find it interesting that the Directors do not *need* to be associated
with any Member organizations; there is no restriction on who can be voted
in as a Director, allowing for the possibility that in the future, the
Board of Directors could be entirely populated by people with no member
affiliation to PeeringDB at all.
I'm still mentally wrestling with whether or not that could be a strength,
or a weakness in the Bylaws, though.   ^_^;;

Thank you for the clarification!

Matt


On Tue, Apr 14, 2026 at 1:19 PM Chris Caputo <ccaputo at alt.net> wrote:

> Just a quick point of clarification that the Voting Rights mentioned in
> section 2.3 apply to the Membership, not the Board.
>
> Chris
>
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2026, Matthew Petach wrote:
> > Welcome to the iterative process of updating Bylaws.  I've been going
> > through this with two other organizations I've been on the boards of,
> > and it's always a challenge.
> [...]
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.peeringdb.com/pipermail/pdb-gov/attachments/20260414/fbee39ba/attachment.htm>