I do still think that there should have been some more transparency when the report was published for those interested, such as easier to find the meeting minutes, and also I don't know why the mailing list archive is no longer available. - Cynthia On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 1:12 PM Cynthia Revström <me@cynthia.re> wrote:
Marcus,
This was pretty much the point I was trying to make, thank you for putting it into words better than I could :)
- Cynthia
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 1:04 PM Marcus Stoegbauer <lysis@lys.is> wrote:
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My definition of self appointed doesn’t seem to line up with yours. The task force was appointed by the Executive Board and made up from members of the community. Can you please elaborate where the “self appointed” claim is coming from?
I also would like to strongly oppose the notion that such mailing lists need to be public. The mailing list was a communication tool to form thoughts and guide discussion towards the goal of the task force. Free discussions within a task force IMO can only happen when the task force can openly voice their opinions without thinking about how they are perceived by a wider public audience. The discussions might as well exclusively happen in video calls, and I sure hope you wouldn’t request access of the public to those calls.
In summary: task forces are formed to work out a goal, for which they require privacy. Minutes of the discussions and regular updates (if it’s a longer running process) can be sensible to keep the public informed, but with this task force the final report contained plenty of information. Additionally, the final report was presented to the members and there was a vote on the relevant passages, so I fail to see how damages could be done by this proceeding.
Marcus
On 7 Nov 2020, at 12:23, Harry Cross wrote:
I don't agree unfortunately, and I don't think self appointed groups within the NCC should be allowed to lock themselves away to make decisions about this sort of thing without some form of scrutiny. The mailing list doesn't have to be open to all to reply too, but at least to give a live overview of what is going on.
At the moment it looks like a self appointed group was allowed to make recommendations, without any sort of chain of thought being made public until after it had happened and the damage has been done. RIPE Board, I would like to suggest that a rule is instigated in future to prohibit any mailing list being made private (bar anything for the members only), so that proper scrutiny of the work of the NCC and it's TFs can be undertaken.
Thanks
Harry
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 9:53 AM Cynthia Revström <me@cynthia.re> wrote:
Hi,
(directed to EB) The archives appear to be gone, this needs to be fixed.
(directed to Harry) The doodles were just scheduling times when the TF members were available for calls.
Surely if the membership had requested for this to happen, it makes sense to allow them to be involved in the discussion.
This is not quite true, it was the Executive Board who called for the Task Force to be created to write a report of suggested changes that the EB could present to the members for them to vote on.
Some people may not want to commit to a full task force membership, but still give their view.
Sadly I don't think this would have worked at all if it was a public mailing list. We needed a group of people who were invested into the issue and not have a bunch of comments from all over the place. The diversity-tf is/was(?) an open mailing list, that pretty much failed in my opinion due to it, and I think that this TF would have had the same outcome if it was open.
-Cynthia
On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 18:02 Harry Cross <me@harrycross.me> wrote:
Hi all, I've just had a cursory glance through the report and the mailing list minutes.
I'd like to ask why the mailing list was not open to all please, I saw the minutes mentioned this but there was no explanation of why? Surely if the membership had requested for this to happen, it makes sense to allow them to be involved in the discussion. Some people may not want to commit to a full task force membership, but still give their view.
I also tried to get to the Doodles and they don't work. Are they public at all please?
Thanks
Harry
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