[ripe-list] Draft Document: RIPE Task Forces - Definition and Guidelines - v3

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 02:38:32PM +0000, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> Please let us know what you think, in sufficient numbers so that we can 
> understand whether the draft enjoys community consensus.

I find v3 a reasonable description of the roles and processes of (formal)
task forces, and what to expect and not to expect.


I explicitly disagree with Jordi's repeated comments about the requirement
for a non-discriminatory participation.  TFs are not something to be voted
in, or to govern anything, but to get a job done - and due to human nature,
you'll have volunteer groups that are incompatible.

Force-permitting someone "in" that the other volunteers refuse to work with 
might look good on paper ("yay, we're so non-discriminatory") but will 
just break the intent "get work done".


We shouldn't overvalue the "task force" stamp on a group of volunteers -
it's a formal vehicle to request support from the RIPE NCC, and to agree
on "this is the work we set out to do" (and volunteers are expected to
have time to do so).  This does not mean any *other* group of volunteers 
couldn't just sit together, get work done, and bring the resulting document 
up to a working group for larger consensus and publishing as a RIPE document
(like, the documents coming out of the IPv6 WG).

So, no, task forces in general are not a vehicle of exclusivity that would
need all this hubbub about full inclusion.

Gert Doering
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