[anti-abuse-wg] Appointment & Removal of Working Group Chairs

Brian,

Thanks for the proposal. I hoped there would be more common ground
between the different WG chair selection processes (if only for sanity
reasons)... maybe some charitable chair would explain it to me next meeting.

This said, while the general rules look good (term duration,
re-selection, introduction), I find it way to heavy on physical presence
at meetings and voting. As the most important activity of WGs (i.e.
policy making) happens on the mailing list, that seems to me to be the
proper primary venue for chair selection. And just like for policies,
let's at least try to find consensus on the mailing list first (it would
also save valuable meeting time).

If it finally comes to voting, please don't exclude non-traveling
participants. As formal e-voting is probably way to cumbersome, at the
very least the voice of those following the session in real-time should
be heard. In the case of unclear results, I'd rather delay chair
selection, rather than having one that isn't approved by, say, 49% of
the membership.

For chair removal I don't have a clear-cut opinion, a vote may be the
reasonable solution, but again not strictly restricted to physical presence.

Gilles


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