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

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 07:09:53PM +0100, Nigel Titley wrote:
> On 17/05/17 16:49, Job Snijders wrote:
> > If we as community can manage to put together an Executive Board, a
> > team of Arbiters, and a Program Committee, surely we can manage to
> > figure out how and who should appointed a RIPE chair.
> 
> I would respectfully remind you that the EB is elected by the RIPE NCC
> members and the Arbiters are appointed by the General meeting. Neither
> are actually put together by "The Community" (tm).

Do you believe that "The Community [tm]" and "RIPE NCC members" are
significantly disjoint groups of stakeholders? Are they so far disjoint
in their instantiation, history, and operations; that analogies are
inappropiate?

Kind regards,

Job