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 one of our co-chairs (Doris Hauser) is stepping down after the upcoming RIPE Meeting (RIPE 90, near Lisbon) for personal reasons 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). To do this, please send a mail to <dns-wg-chairs AT ripe.net> before end of Thursday 23 April 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 Friday 24 April 2025. Discussion and support (or opposition) for each candidate can then be offered on the list. At the DNS working group session at RIPE 90, Moritz, Willem and Doris hope to announce consensus based on the mailing list discussion. Timeline ———— Wednesday, 26  March 2025 This call for volunteers posted to the dns-wg mail list Thursday, 23 April 2025 Deadline for volunteers/nominations Friday, 24 April 2025 List of candidates and call for support posted to the mail list Tuesday, 13 May 2025 Deadline for showing support for candidates/volunteers on the mail list Wednesday, 14 May 2025 DNS WG session at RIPE 90 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/community/wg/active-wg/dns/dns-wg-chair-selection-proce... 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, Doris Hauser