RIPE 72 Working Group Chair Meeting Summary

Tivoli Hotel & Congress Centre – Copenhagen, Denmark
26 May 2016

Attendees:
Jaap Akkerhuis, João Damas, Gert Doering, Rob Evans, Ondrej Filip, Amanda Gowland, Mihnea-Costin Grigore, Andrew de la Haye, Hans Petter Holen, Christian Kaufmann, David Knight, Mirjam Kuehne, Florence Lavroff, Kurtis Lindqvist, Jen Linkova, Remco van Mook, Paolo Moroni, Brian Nisbet, Axel Pawlik, Serge Radovcic, Jim Reid, Marco Schmidt, Job Snijders, Sander Steffann, Benedikt Stockebrand, Piotr Strzyzewski, Nigel Titley, Meredith Whittaker, Anna Wilson, Martin Winter

Chair: Nick Hyrka
Scribe: Antony Gollan

I. Welcome/Intro
II. RIPE Future - Introduction by Hans Petter Holen and Discussion
III. RIPE 73 Unusual Meeting Venue
IV. Appointment of Programme Committee Member
V. RIPE Chair Selection - Proposal by Hans Petter Holen and Discussion
VI. WG Minutes Publishing and Approval
VII. RIPE 73 Meeting Plan
VIII. AOB


I. Welcome/Intro

There were no changes to the agenda.

II. RIPE Future - Introduction by Hans Petter Holen and Discussion

The Chairs discussed whether enough was being done to encourage community participation at RIPE Meetings and on the mailing lists.

III. RIPE 73 Unusual Meeting Venue

The Chairs discussed the RIPE 73 meeting venue, which will have individual microphones for each desk. It was agreed that extra effort would be required to ensure fair queuing of comments/questions and to avoid interruptions.

IV. Appointment of Programme Committee Member

Brian Nisbet was reappointed as the Working Group Chair Representative on the RIPE Programme Committee.

V. RIPE Chair Selection - Proposal by Hans Petter Holen and Discussion

The Chairs discussed how to start developing a process for selecting future RIPE Chairs. It was agreed that community input should be sought early into the process. A dedicated mailing list will be created for community discussion.

VI. WG Minutes Publishing and Approval

The Chairs agreed that the RIPE NCC will send the draft minutes from their WG sessions with a hard deadline of two weeks to respond before they are posted.

VII. RIPE 73 Meeting Plan

The Chairs discussed the meeting plan for RIPE 73. There were no changes requested from the RIPE 72 meeting plan.

The Chairs agreed that they would take efforts to ensure WG sessions didn't run over time.

VIII. AOB

Paolo Moroni was welcomed as new co-Chair for the Routing WG, and outgoing Chair Rob Evans was thanked for his work.