[ipv6-wg] working group co-chair(s)

On Thursday 14 January 2010 07:30:35 David Kessens wrote:

I find this a very good idea in general.

Regards,

Kostas Zorbadelos

> All,
>
> During the charter discussion, some of you suggested to appoint a
> co-chair.
>
> Most RIPE working groups have more than one chair person. In the past,
> I have never felt the necessity to do this job with more than one
> person. However, in the spirit that it is always good to try something
> new or different, we can certainly add a co-chair if the working group
> believes this to be beneficial for achieving our goals.
>
> Considering that we don't have any formal process for appointing a
> working group chair, there is no standard on how this is achieved in a
> transparent and fair way. This might have been acceptable in the
> early days of RIPE when there were far fewer people involved and
> governments weren't watching us.
>
> Given that there is an interest in appointing an additional cochair,
> this seems an excellent opportunity to achieve something more than
> just appointing a co-chair: if we define an open process and are happy
> with the results, we can propose the process as a RIPE policy proposal
> to the wider community for the appointment of chair people within
> RIPE.
>
> At the same time, I don't believe we should overregulate and loose one
> of the key benefits of our loosely organized community. Therefore, my
> personal preference would be to formulate a set of principles that we
> need to follow to appoint chair people while the actual implementation
> can vary depending on the position that needs to be filled.
>
> I would first like to hear what people think about this. If there is
> support, I would like to form a small task force to write a first
> version of the principles and how we plan to implement them in the
> ipv6 working group.
>
> David Kessens
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