Post #4491926

2026-08-10 23:21 UTC

Personal recommendations on the #InternetNZ Motions… ✅ Motion 1 is a sensible minor adjustment to be more flexible with terms on the Board. Sometimes the person you need is only available for two years, or the last person who knows how something works is available to stay for another year while new people get up to speed. ❌ Motions 2-5 are malicious. They're from the right-wing FSU. At one level they burden the organisation with a bunch of bureaucratic reporting rules that will allow well-resourced right-wing groups to generate misleading press releases. At another level their purpose is to imply that the organisation isn't already sufficiently transparent. InternetNZ already does a good job reporting on AGM motions, disbursements, finances, and complaints while maintaining the dignity and safety of people it donates to. 1/2

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@isaacfreeman@cloudisland.nz 2026-08-10 23:22

✅ Motion 6 is sensible. Tracking IPv6 uptake is a good task for InternetNZ. 🤷 Motion 7 seems fine to me. InternetNZ says it will do market research on why people choose and retain .nz domain names, so it seems harmless to require that the results be reported. ❌(ish) Motion 8 would establish a nominating committee. This is probably well-intentioned and a fairly common structure for a community institution, but I don't think the nominators have made a sufficient case explaining what problem it solves. My concern is that such a committee could be hijacked to make recommendations that favour white male conservatives. It feels like trying to solve a political problem with extra rules. I'm open to being persuaded on this by a good case at the AGM, but my inclination is to vote against it. #InternetNZ AGM is 5:30pm, Thursday 13 August. 2/2

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