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

Good morning all,

the strongest message I hear from those who spoke up so far:
"We are uncomfortable with the SelCom making the selection without a
formal step where the community explicitly supports the selected people."

Let me shed some more light on the thinking behind the document as
proposed:

The basis for this proposal is that the SelCom will work well and that
the transition will happen at a RIPE meeting.  The case where the SelCom
does something that clearly is not supported by the community will be
highly unusual.  Furthermore this will become clear at that transition
RIPE meeting and I expect that the community will not be ignored then.
But this will be far from normal and will likely not happen ever.
Normally there will be handing over ceremony, possibly involving a
specific artifact securely kept at an undisclosed location. ;-) At that
point I expect that there will be applause and that will be it.

Personally I have considered several versions of text that tried to deal
with the exceptional case without opening big opportunities for
disruptive attacks by a minority. I believe just saying nothing is better.

So if any of you remain concerned by the absence of a *formal* step
where the community accepts the SelCom outcome, I challenge you to
propose wording that achieves this while mitigating the risk of
disruption by a vocal minority.

This is the main point I hear so far. More on the minor points later.

More discussion is better

Daniel