Dear Colleagues, This is a call for nominations or volunteers to co-chair the RIPE DNS working group. ************************************************************************************* Please DO NOT reply to this message if you wish to propose a volunteer. ************************************************************************************* 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 (Dave Knight) will soon expire 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. Note that having served two terms, in accordance with the selection process Dave is not eligible. To do this, please send a mail to <dns-wg-chairs at ripe.net> before Tue 2nd November 2021. 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 to include with their nomination, to this mailing list on Wednesday 3rd November 2021. Discussion and support (or opposition) for each candidate can then be offered on the list. At the DNS working group session at RIPE 83, Joao and Shane hope to announce consensus based on the mailing list discussion. Timeline -------- Tue 19 Oct This call for volunteers posted to the dns-wg mail list Tue 2 Nov Deadline for volunteers Wed 3 Nov List of volunteers and call for support posted to the mail list Wed 24 Nov Deadline for showing support for volunteers on the mail list Thu 25 Nov DNS WG session at RIPE 81 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. Kind regards, Joao, for the dns-wg chairs