Hi William, Denis & DB-WG members, Thank you for the email, and I am volunteering to serve the working group. My name is Sean Stuart, and I have been working with enterprise and service provider networks for the last 20 years. My current role involves interconnectivity, routing policy, DNS root server placement, and IP address management. For the connectivity, I have a strong interest in maintaining the accuracy of RIR and IRR databases, both to ensure my routes are accepted, and to ensure that I can contact the appropriate people when things go wrong. Wearing my IP management hat, I operate five LIR's under three RIR's, and follow the policy development process in all three regions. I am very familiar with the policy development process in RIPE, and appreciate the process and the work required to keep the process on track. I also bring a neutral perspective to the role, as neither my employer nor myself have any specific policy requests expected in the near future. My goal is to ensure that the working group is able to continue to develop policies that make sense to the organizations in the RIPE region for the next several years. I am familiar with the workload required, as well as the role of the WG chair in keeping discussions on track and civil when required. I hope to be able to serve the community as a WG chair. Thank you, Sean Stuart On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 5:10 PM, William Sylvester via db-wg <db-wg@ripe.net

wrote:

WG Members,

This email kicks off the chair selection process for the open seat vacated last fall. With the new chair processes agreed to by the working group this will be a single chair seat for three years. This will migrate us into the new process where we will select one chair per year to maintain continuity and consistency for the chairs and prevent a situation like we have encountered previously where we were selecting chairs out of a drawing from a hat.

As a reminder, chair terms are staggered yearly. The working group will select the chair by consensus. The process is as follows;

This is the call for interested parties. Interested parties have two (2) weeks to make their interest known on this mailing list, or directly to the chair(s). After two weeks, the chair(s) ensure that all candidates are announced on the mailing list and issue a call for discussion. All members of the community are encourage to make a discussion and express their approval or otherwise of the presented candidates. Two (2) weeks after the call for discussion, the chair(s) declare a decision, based on mailing list discussion, as they would do for a policy proposal.

All candidates please post to the mailing list at this time or contact the chairs (db-wg-chairs@ripe.net).

Kind regards,

William & Denis

DB-WG Co-Chairs

-- Thank you, Sean Stuart sean.stuart@gmail.com 571-969-5707 cell