Sorry, I had the dates all wrong in the previous announcement (copy/paste/edit error). Below the version with all the correct dates:

Dear All,

This is a call for nominations or volunteers to co-chair the RIPE DNS working group.

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Please DO NOT reply to this message if you wish to propose a volunteer.
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Call for RIPE DNS Working Group Chair

In accordance with the chair selection process we announce that the term of one of our co-chairs (Willem Toorop) will expire at the upcoming RIPE Meeting (RIPE 91, Bucharest) and we would like to invite volunteers, or nominations for someone to become a co-chair of the DNS working group.

Anyone may volunteer, and anyone may be nominated by someone else (we will check with the person for acceptance).

I (Willem) decided not to volunteer again for a second term to make space for others to try out this wonderful and rewarding and low-effort community position

To do this, please send a mail to <dns-wg-chairs AT ripe.net> before end of Sunday 28 September 2025 (UTC). Again, please DO NOT send your volunteer/nomination to the DNS WG mailing but rather the dns-wg-chairs mail alias.

It would be helpful for candidates to give some words as to why they think they ought to be a co-chair, what new ideas, or improvements they might bring, and so on.

We will publish the list of volunteers, along with anything the volunteers wish to include with their nomination, to this mailing list on Monday 29 September 2025 Discussion and support (or opposition) for each candidate can then be offered on the list.

At the DNS working group session at RIPE 91, Yevheniya and Moritz hope to announce consensus based on the mailing list discussion.

Timeline

• Monday, 18  August 2025
  This call for volunteers posted to the dns-wg mail list

• Sunday, 28 September 2025
  Deadline for volunteers/nominations

• Monday, 29 September 2025
  List of candidates and call for support posted to the mail list

• Monday, 20 October 2025
  Deadline for showing support for candidates/volunteers on the mail list

• Thursday, 23 October 2025
  DNS WG session at RIPE 91 (still subject to change)

References

• The RIPE working group chair job description is included in ripe-692:
  https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-692

• The DNS working group chair selection process is documented here:
  https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/dns/dns-wg-chair-selection-process
  We have 3 co-chairs so the term is 3 years.

• The current approach was announced on this mailing list on 2018-07-17:
  https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/2018-July/003566.html

As always, please feel free to reach out to any of the chairs directly, to us as a group at dns-wg-chairs AT ripe.net, or discuss this or any other any relevant topic on this mailing list.

Willem Toorop for the RIPE DNS working group co-chairs (Yevheniya, Moritz and me)