Sasha/Nigel, Nigel Titley wrote the following on 21/06/2013 17:03:
Sascha
I'm not sure about an untimely demise, per se. The NCC, nor the members of the NCC, have no power over the WGs, but it would
Strictly speaking, the membership can, in Plenary, disband the WG. Also, ISTR a WG chair being "fired" in Plenary a few years ago...
Sorry to be pedantic, but the "membership" (usually understood to be the members of the RIPE NCC) have no power over a WG. I think you may mean the "community", which does.
YEs, this is why I explicitly stated the members of the NCC. The community is a whole different matter.
And the WG chair who was fired (in Rome if I recall correctly) was actually fired by his own WG, not the plenary.
I believe that is a fair retelling of the incident. Brian