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

On 18.05.17 13:56 , Job Snijders wrote:
> If we sought to avoid "overly polemic debate", I expect that we'd show
> restrain in the application of rethorical devices.

Such as  "You are of course entitled to your opinions."?


"https://xkcd.com/605/" cannot be repeated often enough.

Let me note however, that with that you made the implication,
a rhetorical device, that by stating events in the past I was as making
predictions about the future. I was not! I just stated that the chair
naming their successor has worked once. And it has.

> Also, we should be conservative in our judgement on how other
> organisations (RIPE NCC, IETF, ITU, ICANN, etc) select their leadership,
> for better or for worse. Since there is quite some overlap between
> these communities, unfounded criticism may lead to alienation.

Of course we should be conservative in judgement. However I have not
heard any judgment of other organisation's procedures in this debate so
far. All I have heard here is good arguments that these do not apply to
RIPE.

Daniel