On 17 Nov 2016, at 10:18, Filiz Yilmaz <koalafil@gmail.com> wrote:
What about the following, roughly speaking:
- Anybody can be a candidate, with the possible exception of RIPE NCC Staff and Board. Otherwise, they need to leave their positions at the RIPE NCC, if they get selected as the RIPE Chair at the end of the process to avoid conflict of interest or perception of it.
- WG Chairs Collective at the time evaluates all candidates and comes up with a list of eligible candidates.
- RIPE Community runs an election among these eligible candidates (Like the ones we run for NRO NC reps or RIPE PC...).
- Vice-Chair gets appointed by the elected-RIPE Chair.
Changing election and elected to selection and selected, would make this work for me.* If we can converge on this outline, we can then move on to a discussion about how the RIPE community appoints the Chair. One of those mechanisms might be an election. The form of words above pre-judges the outcome of that discussion: ie all possibilities which are not an election are excluded and not to be considered. *I would prefer the evaluation to be done by a broader group than just the WG Chair Collective: the NCC Board and/or Management should probably have a say too. That then starts to look like a nomcom. Hmmm. I also think it would be better to use the same process (whatever that process may be) to appoint the Chair and Vice Chair. Assuming we have a Vice Chair.