[ripe-chair-discuss] Chair nomination process

Hi Nurani,

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 07:22:39PM +0200, Nurani Nimpuno wrote:
> For as long as I have been part of this community, we always been
> extremely responsible and clear about the separation between the
> RIPE NCC and the RIPE community. RIPE NCC staff members do not
> participate in the policy development process,

Yes and no to that.  We have been tried to be explicit in making
that distinction clear (and constantly failed, people use "RIPE" and
"RIPE NCC" interchangeably, and nobody really seems to mind), but 
nothing in the PDP says "a NCC employee is not allowed to have an
opinion on policy and voice that".  The PDP is quite clear here.

I think more important than "is someone with an opinion about policy
a NCC employee or not" is "be very *transparent* in policy making" - so,
discussions on the public lists, in the (public and archived) meeting, 
and so on, following the agreed PDP, with an appeals process if people
suspect something shady.  And I think we do achieve that transparency.

Gert Doering
        -- nomcom member, and involved in policy making for a while
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