[ripe-chair-discuss] Status of RIPE Chair discussion?

On 18/05/17 07:15, Nurani Nimpuno wrote:

>> 1. RIPE Chair job description: Doing the sort of things that the RIPE
>> Chair should do.
>>
>> 2. RIPE Chair selection process: Selected as needed
> 
> I do not find this particularly helpful I’m afraid. This is neither a job description, nor a process. 

I think you've been in close proximity to ICANN folk for far too long.
YOU may not find it helpful but it is in fact a job description and a
process. Other people have found it helpful.

> 
> And while I also don’t want something over prescriptive, I do think that unless we do away with the concept of a RIPE chair, we need to define it in a way that people can understand it. 

There are many positions that don't have a written job description but
are nevertheless well regarded, understood and accepted.

Nigel