report from 'Chairman BoF'

[Bettina Schroeder <]

Dear colleagues,

At the last RIPE meeting in Amsterdam all the working group chairs -
as far as they had already arrived in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening
(22/02/00) - met each other to discuss some issues regarding the
working groups. We called it the 'Chairman BoF'.



I would like to give a short report from this meeting. 



The agenda was:

1. Welcome
2. Additional agenda points
3. Future of the working groups
4. Schedule of the working groups
5. Chairs and back-up chairs
6. Agenda's for the working groups
7. AOB 

Here are some bullet points to summarise what we have discussed

	* more flexibility regarding times and slots for the agenda
		1) provide time-slots of different length in order to
		   better accommodate longer/shorter wg-sessions.
		2) ask how much time the working group chairs think they
		  really need. 
	* create a task force within the working groups
		1) encourage more input
		2) support the working group chairs
		3) provide back-up chairs who can organise the
		   wg-session if necessary. 
	* make the contact between the chairs and the RIPE NCC more
		1) pro-active
		2) a RIPE NCC staff member will make minutes of each
		   wg-session, these minutes will be published on
		   the web. The chair is free to appoint another scribe.
		3) collection of the agenda's: The chair is asked to
		   provide a preliminary agenda for the next
		   wg-session in his report for the plenary session.  
	* make a handbook for the working group chairs and other interested
		   people containing information on how to run a RIPE
		   working group.

	* have these kind of meeting more often ;-) 


Regards,
Bettina Schroder
RIPE NCC





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