[ripe-chair-discuss] Chair nomination process

> On 13 May 2020, at 18:43, Martin J. Levy <mahtin at mahtin.com> wrote:
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> I believe you seriously misconstrued the difference between some random task-force and the process of selection of a Chairman of an entity with an approximately 35 million euro budget and 25,000'ish members.

Marty, I believe you’ve seriously misconstrued the difference between the processes for selecting the RIPE NCC and RIPE Chairpeople. :-)

> I'm not sure the nomcom has done a good job so far.

IMO they’re doing the best job they can given the circumstances. For instance it’s not their fault the community didn’t nominate a more diverse set of candidates. Or some of those candidates are somehow “tainted” because of their perceived links to the NCC. Anyone who thought the process was defective or the pool of candidates wasn’t good enough has had plenty of opportunities to say so. That hasn't happened AFAICT. It’s probably too late in the day to raise objections now while that process is well under way.

That said, I suppose we could rip this up and start again. But there would have to be compelling reasons to take such drastic action. Let’s hear them.