[ripe-chair-discuss] RIPE Chair appointment procedure, some ideas

On Wed, 16 Nov 2016, Jim Reid wrote:

>> On 15 Nov 2016, at 22:49, Carlos Friacas <cfriacas at fccn.pt> wrote:
>>
>> Either asking the WG Chair with more time on his/her record on that 
> role/group to step up as Vice-Chair, or run an election process if two 
> (or more) WG Chairs wish to become Vice-Chair on the same opportunity, 
> sounds acceptable to me.
>
> Please don't talk about "elections" in this specific context. We have 
> to decide on the *selection* process first. An election is just one of 
> many possibilities of selecting the candidate(s). Until we have 
> consensus that election is the way to proceed -- and I hope we never 
> converge on that option -- it is inappropriate to talk about electing 
> the RIPE (Vice) Chair.

Hi Jim, All,

What i stated previously is that running some sort of restricted 
(s)election would be something that wouldn't shock me.

Regards,
Carlos