[ripe-list] RIPE WG Chairs Selection and Terms

Mirjam,

On 11/02/2021 13.54, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:
> 
> I think we all agree that the overall goal is to have a good and diverse
> set of WG chairs and we want to work with all WGs to facilitate that.
> 
> Following the recommendations from the Accountability Task Force, we've
> started looking at the chair selection criteria of all RIPE Working
> Groups. Currently most WGs have terms or regular calls for nominations
> defined as part of their selection criteria. We will continue this review.

Thanks for this. It's a bit wonky but I appreciate the review effort here.

In the light of the discussion about chair selection and term limits, I 
thought that I would mention that the RIPE DNS working group already has 
these limits.

We have 3 chairs, and each chair serves 3 years. Every year one of the 
positions is made available.

With this system there is a chance every year for anyone interested in 
serving as a chair to put themselves forward.

An existing chair may volunteer again at the end of their term, one 
time, so serving a total of 6 years.

We started using this process 6 years ago, so this year we will have at 
least one new chair.

Dave sent a good e-mail last year which documents a bit of the history, 
plus each individual chair's period:

https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/2020-October/003768.html

Cheers,

--
Shane