[ripe-chair-discuss] The RIPE Chair Selection Process - v0.4

Hi,

Here are some suggestions:

> The RIPE Chair Selection Process
> 
> Hans Petter Holen
> Mirjam Kuehne
> Daniel Karrenberg
> Anna Wilson
> 
> ripe-yyy
> 
> Version 0.4
> 
> March 2019
> 
> 
> 
> Scope
> 
> This document describes the selection
> of the RIPE Chair and the RIPE Vice Chair.
> The role of RIPE Chair is described in ripe-714.
> The selection committee is described in ripe-xxx.
> 
> 
> Background
> 
> The first Chair of RIPE, Rob Blokzijl, was selected informally.
> The community did not establish a formal mechanism to select
> a person for this role before the present time.
> When Rob asked Hans Petter Holen to assume the role of RIPE Chair
> he also suggested that RIPE should establish
> a more formal selection procedure.
> This document describes that procedure.
> For details see Appendix G.
> 
> 
> Principles
> 
> The following broad principles emerged from an extensive community
> discussion:
> 
> A selection committee drawn from the community selects persons
> for the role of RIPE Chair for a period of five years with a two term limit.
> The selection committee is selected randomly from the community
> volunteers and modelled roughly after the IETF NomCom.
> There role of the RIPE Vice Chair should be re-established.

Text: The role of the RIPE Vice Chair should be re-established. The RIPE Chair and the RIPE Vice Chair are selected as a team and their terms are linked.

> The persons selected for the roles of RIPE Chair and RIPE Vice Chair
> must both be suitable for the role and have the support of the RIPE
> Community.
> For details about the community discussions see Appendix G.
> 
> 
> RIPE Meeting
> 
> A RIPE Meeting is an event where Internet Service Providers (ISPs),
> network operators and other interested parties gather
> to discuss issues of interest to the Internet community.
> This document assumes that there are two RIPE meetings each year.

Text: This document assumes that there are at least two RIPE meetings each year.

> The RIPE Chair
> 
> The role of RIPE Chair is described in ripe-714.
> This document describes the selection of a person for that role.
> We also describe the tasks of the current RIPE Chair in the process.
> 
> 
> The RIPE Vice Chair
> 
> This document re-introduces the role of RIPE Vice Chair.
> The purpose of that role is to provide continuity in
> case the RIPE Chair resigns or is not able to perform their role.
> The RIPE Chair may also delegate some of their duties
> to the RIPE Vice Chair as described in ripe-714.
> 
> 
> The RIPE Selection Committee
> 
> The RIPE Selection Committee (SelCom) selects persons for the
> RIPE Chair and RIPE Vice Chair roles.
> The selection committee consists of randomly selected
> community volunteers.
> The RIPE Selection Committee is described in ripe-xxx.
> 
> 
> The Working Group Chairs Collective
> 
> In exceptional circumstances this document
> calls on the RIPE working group chairs collective
> whenever timely action or consultation is needed.
> 
> 
> General Time-Line
> 
> The whole process takes roughly one year and two RIPE meetings.
> First a call for nominations is issued and the selection committee
> established.
> Then the list of nominees willing to be selected is published
> and the selection committee collects community input;
> this phase should include one RIPE meeting in order to provide the
> opportunity
> for personal interactions with the selection committee.
> We call this meeting the "consultation RIPE meeting".
> After the consultation meeting the selection committee publishes their
> selection.
> Finally, the newly selected persons take on their role;
> this happens at a RIPE meeting,
> so that the community can confirm their support for the selected persons.
> 
> 
> Eligibility and Term Limit
> 
> Any natural person is eligible for selection
> unless they have already been selected twice for their current role.

Q: So someone can be vice chair twice and chair twice. It explicitly mentions "selected twice for their current role", so a vice-chair who becomes chair at some point is still only selected to be vice-chair once, and can therefore still be selected two times as chair.

If that's not what we want then we need to change this a bit.

> It does not matter whether or not the terms are consecutive.
> 
> Term
> 
> The RIPE Chair and RIPE Vice Chair serve
> until the RIPE meeting closest to
> the fifth anniversary of taking on their role.
> 
> 
> Nominations
> 
> Around the fourth anniversary of taking on their role the RIPE Chair starts
> the new selection procedure by initiating the establishment  of the
> selection committee,
> making a call for nominations and setting a deadline for nominations
> about eight weeks prior to the subsequent RIPE meeting,
> the consultation RIPE meeting.
> 
> The SelCom checks the eligibility of the nominated persons,
> confirms whether the nominated persons wish to serve
> and publishes the list of nominees willing to serve
> no later than 2 weeks prior to the consultation RIPE meeting.
> 
> 
> Community Consultation
> 
> The SelCom actively solicits input from the entire community.
> It does so as much as possible in an open and transparent manner while
> adequately protecting personal information about the candidates.
> 
> 
> Selection
> 
> The SelCom then selects one person to serve as RIPE Chair and
> another person to serve as RIPE Vice Chair.
> The SelCom announces their selections no later than two weeks prior
> to the  following meeting, the transition RIPE meeting.
> 
> 
> Transition
> 
> At the transition RIPE meeting the newly selected persons take on their
> roles.
> 
> 
> Continuity
> 
> In case the RIPE Chair resigns the RIPE Vice Chair takes on the role of
> RIPE Chair and promptly initiates this selection procedure.
> In case the RIPE Vice Chair is not available either,
> the WG chairs collective selects a person to act as interim RIPE Chair and
> initiates this selection procedure.
> 
> In case the RIPE Vice Chair resigns the RIPE Chair selects a person to
> fill the role in consultation with the WG chairs collective.

Extra text: At the RIPE meeting the community can confirm their support for the selected RIPE Vice Chair.

> Pragmatism
> 
> This document is a guideline that explicitly allows ad-hoc deviations
> both for pragmatic reasons and in unforeseen circumstances
> without having to change this document each time.
> Any such deviations and the appropriate community involvement
> should be clearly documented each time.
> 
> 
> Acknowledgements
> 
> The authors acknowledge the contributions and efforts
> of everyone who participated in the community discussions
> that form the basis on which we were able to build this document.
> In particular Bijal Sanghani, Randy Bush, %%%% offered detailed
> suggestions and comments.

Cheers,
Sander

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