<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">No Jim, according to the process, WG Chairs Collective makes that decision and RIPE Community is left to endorse it, or not.<div><br></div><div>The process reads: "<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Open Sans",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14.300000190734863px">The RIPE community will endorse the candidate put forward by the WG Chair collective."</span><br><div> <div>So practically RIPE Community will have the option of "objecting to a name" or "accepting the name". </div><div>It is a very drastic measure to take compared to selecting names from a pool of candidates. </div><div><br></div><div>Filiz</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 12:04 PM Jim Reid <<a href="mailto:jim@rfc1035.com">jim@rfc1035.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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> On 9 Oct 2018, at 11:00, Filiz Yilmaz <<a href="mailto:koalafil@gmail.com" target="_blank">koalafil@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I have even more concerns that NOMCOM only hands-over a shortlist to the WG Chairs Collective, who ultimately selects the Chair.<br>
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Nope. The RIPE Community ultimately makes that decision. The WGCC should select the best candidate from the shortlist. But the RIPE Community decides if the WGCC made the right choice.<br>
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