[dns-wg] Volunteer list for RIPE DNS working group chair

Dave, all,

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 05:47:26PM -0400, Dave Knight wrote:

> Nov 2015, RIPE 71  Peter Koch was succeeded by Dave Knight for a 3 year term
> Oct 2016, RIPE 73  Jim Reid was succeeded by Shane Kerr for a 3 year term
> Oct 2017, RIPE 75  Jaap Akkerhuis was succeeded by Joao Damas for a 3 year term
> 
> Having observed that in all of the three above cases the first person to respond to the call for nominations was selected to be a co-chair we changed our interpretation of the process and asked that future nominations be sent to the wg chairs to be released en masse in order to preclude a first responder advantage.
> 
> Oct 2018, RIPE 77  Dave Knight was the only volunteer and is serving a second and final three year term
> Oct 2019, RIPE 79  Shane Kerr was the only volunteer and is serving a second and final three year term
> Oct 2020, RIPE 81  Joao Damas is the only volunteer

thanks a lot for adding data and thereby getting the history straight and the current rules on the table.
Also appreaciate the learning from take one.

I'd just add that in the first round none of you three was really new (feature) and two, IIRC, weren't
even new to the chair role (data point).

The current trio has done a very good job, IMHO, especially by adding the regular zoom sessions during the course
of the year.  Other than that, the WG (and that might apply to some other RIPE WGs more or less) is little
more(*) than a specialized track in the overall RIPE program.  Traffic on the list is low (I know I'm
showing my age by even mentioning the mailing list as an indicator) and dominated by this very thread,
meeting announcements and announcements of RIPE Labs articles, usually with little subsequent discussion.
That's OK and in particular I don't think that's a fault and even less a fault of the chairs, but it
could put importance and emotions (around voting or acclamation) a bit into perspective.

The (*) little more is the function as a resonance chamber (not to be confused with echo chamber)
for the RIPE NCC's DNS activities, of course.

Best,
  Peter