[members-discuss] External thoughts on the Executive Board Election TF

On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 01:01:30PM +0100, Marcus Stoegbauer wrote:
>In summary: task forces are formed to work out a goal, for which they 
>require privacy. Minutes of the discussions and regular updates (if 
>it’s a longer running process) can be sensible to keep the public 
>informed, but with this task force the final report contained plenty 
>of information. Additionally, the final report was presented to the 
>members and there was a vote on the relevant passages, so I fail to 
>see how damages could be done by this proceeding.

1) the members of RIPE NCC are not "the public", they are the
*owners* of the NCC.  Everyone would do well to keep this fact in mind.

2) Minutes and proceedings of a "task force" that undertakes to
make changes to the governance of the NCC (such as to pre-select
who may be elected to the Board) should *absolutely* be public.
They are important information to help decide which way to vote
on whatever AoA changes fall out of this.

3) The TF report did *not* contain "plenty of information", in
fact it omitted the most important details - such as: who
determines what constitutes "fraud or financial irregularities"
and who determines that such exist, or who decides what makes a
candidate ineligible for election to the EB. My impression from
the GM is that these processes are still vague and largely
unresolved.

rgds,
Sascha Luck