[ripe-list] NomCom Disbanded - No More Blog

On 26 May 2021, at 16:59, Joe Abley wrote:

> I am a huge fan of the archive.org <http://archive.org/> crew's work, 
> but I think there's also some value in the RIPE community managing its 
> own historical record and not relying solely on the good work of 
> others.


Colleagues,

RIPE traditionally maintains its history in RIPE documents, mailing list 
archives, meeting minutes and, more recently, recordings of meetings 
such as videos, presentation material and stenographic transcripts.

The NomCom proceedings are all recorded in these places as they 
happened. Everything is also comprehensively documented in our final 
report. This report can already be found in the archive of this list and 
will be published as a RIPE document soon. In my mind the blog was never 
intended to be permanent. It served the purpose of an *additional* 
channel to engage with the community. Do we really need to keep it given 
all the other material that is in the traditional places?

We can do that but it does not happen magically. It costs a non-trivial 
effort because the NomCom set up its infrastructure, including the blog, 
  separately from anything else in order to stress the independence of 
the NomCom and its process and in order to be able to delete all 
confidential and personal data once we were finished. I believe that 
without explicit permission from the people whose data the blog contains 
we should not just keep it for much longer than originally intended. 
While this may sound overly formal at first glance I consider it 
necessary. Obtaining this permission requires an effort, not a big one 
but it is not free.

Again, do we really need to keep this blog publicly accessible? I still 
have the data *of the blog only* because of the promise I made in the 
community plenary at RIPE 81. I would feel much better if I could delete 
this too.

Daniel