Andy, On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 04:46:02PM +0000, Andy Davidson wrote:
As I understand it, the selection of a WG chair and associated decisions (like, how many chairs to have) is deliberately left to the working group, so that at any given time, the community is free to select the organisational structure that best reflects the work they want to do at that time.
I agree. I would like to write this down and I think you just did a great job in doing so.
I suggest that :
- If this is not the view of the community as a whole, then, in any case, this working group is not the place to discuss far-reaching community structure policy !
My goal is foremost to define how we want to approach the working group chair selection process in the ipv6 wg. I deliberately want to hear how we are supposed to do this from our community as opposed to me just proposing yet another ad-hoc process that is based on how we did it in the past or some other random working group. After that, I would like to bring up the same topic for RIPE as a whole as I believe it would be a waste to repeat this excersize over and over again (this would obviously not be a topic for the ipv6 working group alone). Note that I mentioned in my first mail, that I believe that it is useful to write down the principles, but that the actual implementation could be different as long as we follow certain minimum standards of openness and transparency.
- If there is consensus to appoint a co-chair, we should ask interested parties to inform the current chair. If there is one interested party, and the community agree consensus to proceed, then we have a new co-chair. Where there are several people wishing to stand and no community consensus to proceed with one, we may wish to hold an election _in this instance_ to select our new chair.
This is broadly what I recall the process was when I stood for eix-wg co-chair.
I personally like several aspects of how the eix working group approached this and I am certainly interested to duplicate this (and write it down). David Kessens ---