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Carlos Friaças
cfriacas at fccn.pt
Fri Feb 12 14:54:29 CET 2021
Hi, On Fri, 12 Feb 2021, Jim Reid wrote: >> On 12 Feb 2021, at 11:26, Martin Winter <mwinter at netdef.org> wrote: >> >> I'm prefer to find a solution without limits on terms. > > IMO, there?s no one-size-fits-all solution to this issue. It?s unwise (and probably impossible) to try to create one. > > WGs should be left to decide for themselves what works best for them. Sometimes, that?ll mean term limits. Sometimes it won?t. I can understand that. However, that impacts the "WG Chair Collective". > Not all WGs are the same. And for a few of them, continuity will be far more important than other considerations. I have recently been told about the "a team of one" concept... > There should of course be a healthy replacement of WG leadership: enough to ensure things don?t get stale Depends on "things". In some cases stale is certainly a "feature". > but not so much that continuity or institutional memory gets lost. That > balance and those trade-offs will be different in each WG. Which is why > each WG should get to decide how they handle this. Not everybody plays by "knowing when to step down"... > Term limits in some WGs like DNS or IoT are fine IMO. For WGs like Coop or AA (say) who interact more with the authorities, not so much. Disagree. > We should also think very, very carefully before imposing policies top-down. RIPE, like most Internet institutions, has always used bottom-up policy development. It should stick with that model because it produces the best outcomes. I thought RIPE is/was a Community. RIPE NCC is an (not for profit, formal) Internet institution. Cheers, Carlos
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