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

Jim Reid wrote:
> Job, your concerns are reasonable but perhaps over-stated. I would
> like to think we can trust the RIPE Chairman to make a wise choice
> about his or her successor. [It worked out just fine last time.] We
> certainly should have enough confidence in the RIPE Chairman to make
> that decision and get it right. If we can’t, how did someone with
> such poor judgement ever get to become RIPE Chairman?

I'm going to up-vote Job on this one, for the reasons stated in my
previous emails to this list.

There are many ways of handling leader selection, but
nomination-by-previous-leader does not feature in the list of mechanisms
which attracts the labels "bottom-up", "consensus-driven" or
"community-oriented".

If we truly intend to adhere to bottom-up principals in the ripe
communtiy, we need to talk about a bottom-up selection process.

Nick