[ripe-chair-discuss] Chair nomination process

Hi,

Personal response as one of the NomCom members:

> - the current RIPE chair is now - with safeguards in place - the RIPE NCC managing director.

This is correct. Hans Petter resigned as RIPE chair, and the Working Group chairs collective asked him to be ad-interim chair until NomCom can select the new chair and vide-chair (for the purpose of continuity IIRC).

> - one of the candidates is the previous chair of the RIPE NCC executive board.
> - one of the candidates is a current employee of the RIPE NCC.

Correct. The NomCom takes all possible conflicts of interest into account for all candidates.

> - the chair of the nom-com is a current employee of the RIPE NCC.

Do note that the chair is a non-voting seat, so a properly neutral chair in the tradition of RIPE Working Groups. And as a member of NomCom I can say that Daniel has chaired the NomCom properly and neutrally.

So I understand your concerns about governance, but in terms of neutrality of NomCom everything is sound. The voting members of NomCom are randomly selected, the RIPE NCC Managing Director does not have any influence and the chair performs perfectly and neutrally (and is non-voting).

Nominating candidates from more diverse backgrounds is up to the community :)

Cheers,
Sander

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