[ripe-chair-discuss] Chair nomination process

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 01:38:08PM +0100, Carlos Friaças wrote:
> On Thu, 14 May 2020, Job Snijders wrote:
> 
> (...)
> > Let's please buy ourselves more time to refine this process.
> 
> How?
> 
> Our current Chair (interim-Chair or interim-interim-Chair) is already in
> full capacity at the RIPE NCC.

You are probably right, this shouldn't linger for more than a few
months.

> Can we make him the interim-interim-interm-Chair?
> I start to see some similarities with a certain runout :-)

I think it would be much in the spirit of how HPH was selected &
confirmed (and compatible with the 'Pragmatism' section of RIPE-728) to
just trust HPH to indeed pick an RIPE interim-interim-interim-Chair for
now.

Plenty of people trusted HPH enough to transform his role to RIPE NCC
GM, so whoever HPH picks is fine with me.

A new process has been bootstrapped, many have invested a lot of time to
get here (thank you!), and its even said this is the most formal process
we have so far. Perhaps we consider it a false start and try again with
some tweaks?

I believe the current NOMCOM (voting+non-voting) was selected through a
fair process, those volunteers should be given the opportunity to make a
selection for the confirming bodies in the near future. That part
doesn't need to be repeated. 

I think it'll only take a few months to revise the process and design
appropriate resource assignment & checks and balances & get resources
assigned while the RIPE PDP works efficiently. Clearly many of us are
now engaged, and I assume committed to provide productive feedback.

The RIPE Chair has clearly documented duties, and the existence of this
selection process confirms the position is deemed necessary by many in
the community.

Kind regards,

Job