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

Jelte Jansen wrote:
> Similarly, this whole discussion was started by people raising
> understandable issues with the current selection procedure. I have my
> issues with the proposal draft for that one as it is, but 'as needed'
> seems a tad bit underspecified for a community that claims to be open
> and transparent.

more to the point, if the position of ripe chair has responsibilities of
any importance, we need to have a think about what happens if we end up
with an incompetent or worse still, a malevolent ripe chair.

Right now, the draft ripe chair function description seems to suggest
that there are duties of some importance to the ripe community:

> https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/chair/draft-ripe-chair-function-description

There is no shortage of examples where a choice of leader has caused
problems.  Usually the options for dealing with this, if it is
considered necessary to deal with it in the first place, are to ensure
damage limitation of one form or another, i.e. term limits, easy methods
of defenestration, inability of leader to change rules without full
stakeholder support, ability to nominate vice-chair independently of
chair, etc.

Nick