Jim Reid wrote:
Job, your concerns are reasonable but perhaps over-stated. I would like to think we can trust the RIPE Chairman to make a wise choice about his or her successor. [It worked out just fine last time.] We certainly should have enough confidence in the RIPE Chairman to make that decision and get it right. If we can’t, how did someone with such poor judgement ever get to become RIPE Chairman?
I'm going to up-vote Job on this one, for the reasons stated in my previous emails to this list. There are many ways of handling leader selection, but nomination-by-previous-leader does not feature in the list of mechanisms which attracts the labels "bottom-up", "consensus-driven" or "community-oriented". If we truly intend to adhere to bottom-up principals in the ripe communtiy, we need to talk about a bottom-up selection process. Nick