[ripe-list] The NomCom Requests your Support

Daniel, NomCom, All,

Please receive my warm and full support for continuing your work
according to the original time line. It is important that we reach the
end of this process, without haste, but also without delay. The time
line set forth took that into consideration.

Please proceed.

And thank you for all your efforts to drive this process along the guide
rails that the community has put up. And for your time. It's all much
appreciated.

				Best regards,
				  /Lars-Johan Liman
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ripe-list at ripe.net 2020-05-25 16:44 [+0200]:
> Dear Friends and Colleagues of the RIPE community,

> If your feeling is something like "Oh no, not another long message
> from the NomCom! I wish they would just get on with it." you do not
> need to read further. It would certainly help us if you explicitly
> told us briefly to "just get on with it".

> Thanks

> Daniel

> ------------------

> From:

> Daniel Karrenberg - Chair of the RIPE 2020 Nominating Committee.


> To:

> Christian Kaufmann  - Chair of the RIPE NCC Executive Board,

> Franziska Lichtblau - Chair of the RIPE Program Committee,

> Hans Petter Holen   - RIPE Chair ad-interim & Chair of the RIPE WG
> Chairs,

> RIPE Community.


> Christian, Franziska, Hans Petter, Friends and Colleagues,

> The process to select two persons to succeed Hans Petter Holen as RIPE
> chair has been under way since September 2019. The NomCom has worked
> diligently to run the process that has been agreed by the community
> and codified in ripe-727 and ripe-728. We have called for nominees,
> canvassed when we had only one nomination and received four further
> nominations. We have dealt with the unforeseen withdrawal of Hans
> Petter. We have recognised the increased urgency that Hans Petter's
> resignation as RIPE Chair puts on the process by slightly tightening
> our time line without compromising on running an exemplary process. We
> have held three formal and two informal meetings, talked to the
> nominees by teleconference and received substantial input about all
> nominees from a diverse set of people in the community.  We have kept
> the community informed by announcements on the RIPE mailing list, by
> providing a dedicated blog, by publishing complementary material on
> RIPE Labs, by reporting to the community plenary at RIPE80 and by
> talking about our work whenever the opportunity presented itself.

> Last week, during RIPE80, there were some calls from within the RIPE
> community to stop this process and start over.  There also have been
> suggestions to issue another call for nominations and then continue as
> before. Since our mandate does not extend beyond executing the process
> along an agreed time line we are extremely reluctant to deviate from
> this unless we observe a clear and strong consensus in the community
> to deviate for the sake of pragmatism.

> We have discussed this extensively and decided against changing the
> planned time line because we see no such consensus. We also considered
> the consequences: Deviating from the plan at this time would put Hans
> Petter into the difficult position of having to work a new and
> demanding job next to filling the RIPE Chair ad interim role. This is
> too much to ask of anyone even without taking into account the recent
> discussion on ripe-chair-discuss. Hans Petter has told us that he
> accepted the ad-interim role on the assumption that we will finish our
> work on time and that he will likely have to resign if we take
> significantly longer than planned.

> Unfortunately during the RIPE 80 community plenary there has been no
> discussion that provides further guidance to us. It is difficult for
> us to assess whether this was due to the virtual format of the
> meeting, widespread agreement with what we have done so far or any
> other reason. We certainly expected those who had called for changes
> to the process earlier during the week to speak up and a discussion to
> take place that would provide further guidance for us. This has not
> happened.

> We have therefore decided to briefly pause our process and not to
> start candidate selection after RIPE 80 as originally planned. We have
> continued with preparations but have not started discussing the
> nominees among ourselves yet.

> We ask the RIPE NCC Board, the PC, the WG Chairs and the community at
> large to give us timely guidance on how to proceed. The question
> before us is whether we still have the support of the community to
> continue with the agreed process and time line or whether there is
> consensus in the community that we should do something different. We
> need this guidance now so that we can keep the delay in the time line
> as short as possible.

> We also ask the community as a whole to support us once we do proceed.

> Daniel Karrenberg,
> Chair,
> RIPE 2020 Nominating Committee