[ripe-chair-discuss] Status of RIPE Chair discussion?

as you allude, as a culture we have dangerous desires to over-specify,
over-formalize, and write horrifyingly detailed (and therefore fragile)
rules.  a view of the world as a scary collection of corner cases.  it
may come from $dayjobs writing code and configuring routers, precision
tasks.

do we really have that many important decisions to make?  let's not
over-inflate our importance.  [ e.g. address policy is only a career in
the arin and apnic regions; ripe is toward the other end of the
alphabet. ]

we don't need a king or a legislature.  as lynn alluded, we seem to most
need someone to remind us to chill out and keep it simple.  rob was very
good at that (as, i would note, was dr postel).

randy