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

[Martin Hannigan]

Conflicts declaration makes sense regardless.
Healthy number of candidates running.
If ARIN doesn’t do it, then it must be OK.

Seems fine.


From: Pdb-gov <pdb-gov-bounces at lists.peeringdb.com> on behalf of Shaun Coffey via Pdb-gov <pdb-gov at lists.peeringdb.com>
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [PDB Gov] Risk of excessive DE-CIX influence on PeeringDB

IMO declare the potential conflict at time of voting, and allow voters to make the choice.  I have no concerns about either candidate or the organization they are affiliated with.

If it’s still of concern ahead of next election, then take the chance to propose modifying the bylaws to include allowing a run off as proposed by Yolandi, or a modification to the quorum requirements to ensure a quorum must consist of at least 3 members who are not affiliated with the same organization.

On Wed, 15 Apr 2026 at 7:01 am, Matthew Petach via Pdb-gov <pdb-gov at lists.peeringdb.com<mailto:pdb-gov at lists.peeringdb.com>> wrote:

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<mailto: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.
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