<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(255, 255, 255);background-color:rgb(28, 28, 30);float:none;display:inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="size" style="font-size:17px;">Oh, I didn’t want to imply any intentional wrongdoing. I simply suggested that stepping down in such situation might be the best way to acknowledge the less than ideal situation and prevent the possible argument that might drag for a long time.</span></span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-size-adjust:auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(255, 255, 255);background-color:rgb(28, 28, 30);float:none;display:inline !important;"><span class="font" style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="size" style="font-size:17px;">Ondrej</span></span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, Dec 16, 2023, at 23:22, Martin Winter wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div>Ondrej,<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 9:31 PM Ondřej Surý <<a href="mailto:ondrej@dns.rocks">ondrej@dns.rocks</a>> wrote:<br></div><div>> The way I read the decision from the chair, they strive to have the voting process work for the existing community. If suddenly there’s a surge of people who were never active in this community subscribing to the mailing list and voting for any of the candidates, I would consider this be a kind of hostile takeover.<br></div><div>><br></div><div>> Honestly, I think the only fair way out of this would be if the candidate who received the surge of votes from people outside of this community stepped down. A co-chair elected with votes from people who never participated in the RIPE community would not be accepted by this community and it would be divisive and toxic to the future work.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I don't like to go this far. We (as the chairs) have no proof or<br></div><div>indication that any of the candidates actively tried to manipulate the<br></div><div>voting. However, some candidates might be more popular in their own<br></div><div>social circles and may have mentioned that they are candidates. And I<br></div><div>think that's all good and fair.<br></div><div>I can't blame the candidates for this or for the fact if someone then<br></div><div>just signed up to vote for him. I have no indication that he/she<br></div><div>motivated them to do this.<br></div><div>As such, I assume all candidates are innocent and did not try to<br></div><div>manipulate the voting.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div> Martin Winter<br></div><div> Open Source WG Chair<br></div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div id="sig120658744"><div class="signature">--<br></div><div class="signature">Ondřej Surý (He/Him)<br></div><div class="signature">ondrej@sury.org<br></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>