[ripe-chair-discuss] RIPE Chair appointment procedure, some ideas

> On 17 Nov 2016, at 10:18, Filiz Yilmaz <koalafil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What about the following, roughly speaking:
> 
> - Anybody can be a candidate, with the possible exception of RIPE NCC
> Staff and Board. Otherwise, they need to leave their positions at the
> RIPE NCC, if they get selected as the RIPE Chair at the end of the
> process to avoid conflict of interest or perception of it.
> 
> - WG Chairs Collective at the time evaluates all candidates and comes
> up with a list of eligible candidates.
> 
> - RIPE Community runs an election among these eligible candidates
> (Like the ones we run for NRO NC reps or RIPE PC...).
> 
> - Vice-Chair gets appointed by the elected-RIPE Chair.

Changing election and elected to selection and selected, would make this work for me.* 

If we can converge on this outline, we can then move on to a discussion about how the RIPE community appoints the Chair. One of those mechanisms might be an election.

The form of words above pre-judges the outcome of that discussion: ie all possibilities which are not an election are excluded and not to be considered.


*I would prefer the evaluation to be done by a broader group than just the WG Chair Collective: the NCC Board and/or Management should probably have a say too. That then starts to look like a nomcom. Hmmm. I also think it would be better to use the same process (whatever that process may be) to appoint the Chair and Vice Chair. Assuming we have a Vice Chair.