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

On 17/05/17 19:19, Job Snijders wrote:
> 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?

Analogies are fine, and there is, I agree, significant overlap between
the members of the two
communities but there are extremely significant differences: the main
one of which is that the RIPE NCC membership is precisely defined but
the RIPE Community is not.

Nigel