Dear colleagues, We are four weeks away from the RIE NCC Services Working Group meeting at RIPE 89 in Prague, here is the draft agenda and the call for nominations to be one of the co-chairs of this working group. Draft Agenda 1. Welcome, admin. 2. Announcement of co-chair selection process (5 mins) 3. Planning for the Registry 2025, Hans Petter Holen, Managing Director, RIPE NCC (20 mins) 4. Planning for Information Services 2025, Felipe Victolla Silveira, Chief Technology Officer, RIPE NCC (20 mins) 5. Planning for External Engagement and Community 2025, Hisham Ibrahim, Chief Community Officer, RIPE NCC (20 mins) 6. Planning for Organisational Stability 2025, Hans Petter Holen, Managing Director, RIPE NCC (20 mins) 7. AOB (5 mins) Call for RIPE NCC Services Working Group Chair Please DO NOT reply to this message if you wish to volunteer or propose a volunteer. In accordance with the chair selection process we announce that the term of one of our co-chairs (Bijal Sanghani) will soon expire and we would like to invite volunteers, or nominations, for someone to become a co-chair of the RIPE NCC Services working group. Anyone may volunteer, and anyone may be nominated by someone else. To do this, please send a mail to ncc-services-wg-chairs@ripe.net before the end of Tuesday 15th October 2024. It would be helpful for candidates to provide 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 include with their nomination, to this mailing list on Wednesday 16th October 2024. Discussion and support (or opposition) for each candidate can then be offered on the list. At the NCC Services working group session at RIPE 89, Janos and Rob will announce the candidate based on the mailing list discussion. Timeline Wednesday 2 October This call for volunteers posted to the ncc-services-wg mail list Tuesday 15 Oct Deadline for volunteers Wednesday 16 Oct List of volunteers and call for support posted to the mail list Tuesday 29 Oct Deadline for showing support for volunteers on the mail list Wednesday 30 Oct NCC Services WG session at RIPE 89 References The RIPE working group chair job description is included in ripe-692: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-692 A guide for New RIPE WG Chairs is in RIPE-765: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-765 The tasks associated with the RIPE WG Chair Collective are described in RIPE-749: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-749 The guidelines for managing WG mailing lists are in RIPE-764: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-764 The RIPE NCC Services working group chair selection process is documented here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/active-wg/services/ripe-ncc-service... RIPE WG Chair Training is available on the RIPE NCC Academy: https://academy.ripe.net/enrol/index.php?id=16#section-1 Of course, the RIPE Code of Conduct is described in RIPE-766: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-766 As always, please feel free to reach out to any of the chairs directly, to us as a group at ncc-services-wg-chairs@ripe.net, or discuss this or any other any relevant topic on this mailing list. All the very best, Rob on behalf of the RIPE NCC Service WG Co-chairs