[ripe-chair-discuss] RIPE Chair Job description

Hello,

I tend to agree with Shane's point of somewhat defining the scope of
RIPE Chair responsibilities, so what is expected of this position in
its broad terms, as well as any selection process for the position.

Having said that, I would not use "Job description" in any document
eventually describing these, because that sounds requiring a level of
detail which I believe we do not need to prescribe to this position.
There will always be things this position can find itself to be
involved as our Community and industry evolves. So I would leave it to
RIPE Chair Responsibilities or Scope of RIPE Chair, or something along
those lines.

Hans Peter Holen's initial mail (pasted below in full) to the
ripe-list suggested some questions for an election procedure, starting
with "Who can be selected as RIPE Chair". Who heavily will depend on
the requirements of the position and whether or not a particular
candidate meets them. So I suggest we add the requirements of the
position to the key questions in this discussion so we can document it
all at once, when the discussion reaches closure.

So adding this to HPH's points, we would have the key questions for a
procedure  as:


* What are the requirements and responsibilities of the RIPE Chair position
* Who can be selected as RIPE Chair
* Who will select the RIPE Chair
* How will the selection happen?


Finally, thanks HPH! This is an important token of our system and
community process.
Open and transparent discussion and eventual documentation for
reference relating to this important position is very much needed in
my opinion.

Cheers
Filiz Yilmaz


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Hans Petter Holen via ripe.net

Oct 4 (7 days ago)
to ripe-list

Dear colleagues,

When Rob Blokzijl stepped down as RIPE Chair, he asked that I put the
wheels in motion to establish a selection procedure for future RIPE
Chairs. At the last meeting I presented a proposal for how this could
happen to start the discussion.

https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hans_petter_holen/draft-ripe-chair-election-procedure

The RIPE Chair represents you, the RIPE community. This community has
been, and always will be, driven bottom up and by consensus. Your
ideas and input form the foundation of what this selection procedure
will look like.

Key questions for a procedure  are:
* Who can be selected as RIPE Chair
* Who will select the RIPE Chair
* How will the selection happen?

Should we have an election? Decided by a show of hands at a RIPE
Meeting? Evoting? A selection panel? A vetting process by the RIPE Working Group
Chairs? Should there be a RIPE Vice Chair?

Your involvement and consensus on the selection procedure is crucial.

We've established a dedicated mailing list for this discussion:

ripe-chair-discuss at ripe.net

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> Is there a document which actually documents what the RIPE Chair
> actually is? Sorry if I missed it, I don't think this exists. Perhaps
> such a document would be a good starting point for the discussion?
>
> We have a nice web page talking about *who* the chair is:
>
> https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/ripe-chair
>
> We also have a RIPE Document which describes what the job of a RIPE
> working group chairs, RIPE 542:
>
> https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-542
>
> Somewhat related, we also have a document describing the RIPE Programme
> Committee, RIPE 600:
>
> https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-600
>
> Note that writing down what the RIPE Chair is does not need to be super
> detailed, or restrictive. Hopefully it can be done in a page or two of
> text.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Shane