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

On 18/11/2016 01:34, Jim Reid wrote:
> 
>> 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.

While I quite like the shape of Filiz's suggestions I would be very
careful of the level of input given to the NCC Management and/or Board.
While the RIPE Chair has to work very closely with the NCC, this is a
Community decision and must be clearly seen as same.

If we do go for a NomCom I'd be inclined to suggest the WG Chairs, the
RIPE PC and possibly the community selected NRO members.

I would very much agree with the conflict of interest provisions
extending to RIPE PC and WG Chairs. Albeit it is easier for them to step
down than for a permanent NCC staff member! Of course if a candidate
comes from one of the groups who are making up a NomCom, then they
should, at the very least, recluse themselves from that whole process.

Thanks,

Brian