[ripe-chair-discuss] RIPE Chair Selection Process
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Joao Damas
joao at bondis.org
Mon Oct 8 14:50:49 CEST 2018
> On 7 Oct 2018, at 21:08, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote: > > how did we come to this decision; the nomcom being the wg chair > retirement home? brandy and cigars? Damn, missed those, again (well, if someone wants my share of the hypothetical cigar I will gladly pass it on) ;) > >> This looks mostly fine, with the exception of the involvement of the >> WG Chairs Collective in the NomCom appointment process. > > aside from process issues which you point out, this would remove the > chairs from candidacy, maybe not the wisest of moves, as a few of them > actually *do* things. > Actually, the way I understood it was the wg charts “collective” would admin the process of putting together the nomcom (a process that is itself undefined at this time and could be, as I seem to recall some discussion, similar to the random selection of the IETF). I didn’t sign up anywhere to be the nomcom because a self-appointed nomcom… defeats the purpose of an open nomcom. >> There are other similar organisation structures on the internet who >> have nomcom mechanisms which work well, which the RIPE community could >> use. > > the ietf's semi-randomiezed process comes to mind; though it is a bit > complex. but at least it is not an old girls'/boys' club. Hmmm…, ballot stuffing of the pool from which members are picked may or may not have happened there, possibly unbalancing the process somewhat. Perfection is hard. I have no better system to offer though, just tuning of the process, if that. > >> I'm not able to support the current proposal > > nor am i. > > randy >
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