[ripe-list] New Draft RIPE Policy Development Process (PDP) document - for your review

On Nov 25, 2021, at 07:50, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 01:43:27PM +0100, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via ripe-list wrote:
>> And that???s also wrong. There are many ???perceived??? attributions to the Chairs with have never been accepted by the community and in law, this is called discrimination.
> 
> Wat?
> 
> It's fairly normal that boss-woman has more authority than non-boss-man.
> 
> The RIPE chair is boss.  Easy.

I'm not sure whether it's clear that the RIPE chair is the boss, or whether the community is the boss and the chair is their servant. Regardless, it seems abundantly clear that broad authority has been granted to the RIPE chair, as documented in RIPE-714. We could debate who has delegated that authority but I'm not sure why it matters.

The authority of the RIPE chair exists, has been documented and has been and continues to be exercised. In the sense that consensus was achieved on RIPE-714, the community has accepted it. Any argument to the contrary is really separate from the discussion in this thread since it concerns far more fundamental governance issues than the PDP.


Joe