[Accountability-tf] Updated Draft Scope

Hi all,

One of the action items from our last call was for the RIPE NCC to 
update the draft scope. Please find an updated version with a couple of 
small changes, based on your comments. I have also included the comments 
I was working from below for reference.

A couple of questions:
- Several people mentioned defining relevant stakeholders. Is this 
something to include in the scope, or perhaps in a new section 
underneath this?
- William mentioned the development of a scorecard or other reporting 
tool - should this be mentioned in the scope or at a later stage in the 
deliverables?
- Nurani mentioned including a note that a full accountability review 
should include a review of the RIPE NCC and its board, conducted by the 
membership/secretariat. Is the scope the right place to mention this?

Please let me know your thoughts and any changes or revisions you would 
like made.

Cheers

Antony


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Updated Scope:

The RIPE Accountability Task Force agreed to:

  * Review existing RIPE community structures, documentation and
    processes to ensure they are accountable and in alignment with RIPE
    values
  * Document existing RIPE community structures or processes where needed
  * Identify potential gaps where RIPE accountability could be improved
    or strengthened
  * Develop recommendations for the RIPE community
  * Identify areas where communications efforts might be required and
    develop communications materials

The scope of the task force is limited to an examination of the RIPE 
community and does not include the RIPE NCC.


Original Scope:

The RIPE Accountability Task Force agreed to:

  * Undertake a review of existing RIPE community structures,
    documentation and processes to ensure they provide adequate
    accountability that is in alignment with RIPE values
  * Identify potential gaps where RIPE accountability could be improved
    or strengthened
  * Document existing RIPE community structures or processes where needed
  * Develop recommendations for the RIPE community
  * Identify areas where communications efforts might be required and
    develop communications materials


Relevant comments from last TF call (some of these are paraphrased).

"William said they should identify the various groups involved and 
determine what kind of accountability they had to these groups. Then 
they could publish some kind of ongoing status or scorecard with how 
they were doing in terms of accountability."

Steve: “[…] the process began with identifying what structuresthey 
intended to look at. He said it was the accountability of each 
RIPEcommunity structure.”

Hans Petter: “…a useful scope restriction was to focus on RIPE. […]He 
wasn’t sure what theymeant by “community structures”, but he thought 
they were talking aboutthe RIPE community which consisted of Working 
Groups, Task Forces,Mailing Lists, etc. He thought this was what they 
needed to look at."

Alexander: “Define the RIPE community before addressing accountablity 
questions.”

Nurani: "...the work should focus on the RIPE community and its 
mechanisms and they needed to be clear about not mixing up membership 
processes and community powers. [...] Long-term accountability work 
would not be complete without looking at the whole structure, including 
the RIPE NCC’s membership and its board. This was probably something 
that needed to be done in future work [...] by the membership and the 
secretariat. So maybe they could proceed with a note that a full 
accountability review would include a review of/by the membership and 
secretariat. "

Peter: He said they should be clear on where they were talking about 
RIPE andwhere they were talking about the RIPE NCC. This needed to be 
especiallyclear for readers. The RIPE and RIPE NCC interaction came 
after they hadreviewed the structures. He suggested bringing the third 
bullet-point up[“Document existing RIPE community structures or 
processes whereneeded”], which would include things like the process for 
selecting WGChairs.

"Filiz said they seemed to be leaning towards a scope that the TF would 
study the existing and future stakeholders within the RIPE community. 
The other option would be to create another "stakeholders" section below 
the scope where they could list who they thought this work would be 
relating to."


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