[ripe-list] DRAFT: Principles for Remuneration of the RIPE Chairs

On 15/03/2023 10:08, Joao Luis Silva Damas wrote:
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>> On 14 Mar 2023, at 17:59, Nigel Titley via ripe-list <ripe-list at ripe.net> wrote:
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>> Having said that, it may well be that continuing to accept that the RIPE NCC continues to employ the RIPE Chair(s) is the only workable solution.
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> Would it be any better if the RIPE Chair was remunerated out of funding from the Rob Blokzijl foundation?

Well, possibly. It would introduce an extra layer of insulation between 
the RIPE NCC and the RIPE Chair, but the major funding for the 
foundation is still the NCC.

I've got a slightly more ideological objection to the RIPE Chair being a 
full time position. I do feel that someone who's full time job is to be 
a Chair will tend to move towards a state of mind insulated from the 
Real World (tm), which is why I always felt that the Chair should be 
part time role. And there is always the temptation to make work to fill 
the time available.

However, this is a personal opinion.

Nigel