Hello, I tend to agree with Shane's point of somewhat defining the scope of RIPE Chair responsibilities, so what is expected of this position in its broad terms, as well as any selection process for the position. Having said that, I would not use "Job description" in any document eventually describing these, because that sounds requiring a level of detail which I believe we do not need to prescribe to this position. There will always be things this position can find itself to be involved as our Community and industry evolves. So I would leave it to RIPE Chair Responsibilities or Scope of RIPE Chair, or something along those lines. Hans Peter Holen's initial mail (pasted below in full) to the ripe-list suggested some questions for an election procedure, starting with "Who can be selected as RIPE Chair". Who heavily will depend on the requirements of the position and whether or not a particular candidate meets them. So I suggest we add the requirements of the position to the key questions in this discussion so we can document it all at once, when the discussion reaches closure. So adding this to HPH's points, we would have the key questions for a procedure as: * What are the requirements and responsibilities of the RIPE Chair position * Who can be selected as RIPE Chair * Who will select the RIPE Chair * How will the selection happen? Finally, thanks HPH! This is an important token of our system and community process. Open and transparent discussion and eventual documentation for reference relating to this important position is very much needed in my opinion. Cheers Filiz Yilmaz ---- Hans Petter Holen via ripe.net Oct 4 (7 days ago) to ripe-list Dear colleagues, When Rob Blokzijl stepped down as RIPE Chair, he asked that I put the wheels in motion to establish a selection procedure for future RIPE Chairs. At the last meeting I presented a proposal for how this could happen to start the discussion. https://labs.ripe.net/Members/hans_petter_holen/draft-ripe-chair-election-pr... The RIPE Chair represents you, the RIPE community. This community has been, and always will be, driven bottom up and by consensus. Your ideas and input form the foundation of what this selection procedure will look like. Key questions for a procedure are: * Who can be selected as RIPE Chair * Who will select the RIPE Chair * How will the selection happen? Should we have an election? Decided by a show of hands at a RIPE Meeting? Evoting? A selection panel? A vetting process by the RIPE Working Group Chairs? Should there be a RIPE Vice Chair? Your involvement and consensus on the selection procedure is crucial. We've established a dedicated mailing list for this discussion: ripe-chair-discuss@ripe.net To subscribe to the list, please visit https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-chair-discuss/ --------------- On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Shane Kerr <shane@time-travellers.org> wrote:
All,
Is there a document which actually documents what the RIPE Chair actually is? Sorry if I missed it, I don't think this exists. Perhaps such a document would be a good starting point for the discussion?
We have a nice web page talking about *who* the chair is:
https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/ripe-chair
We also have a RIPE Document which describes what the job of a RIPE working group chairs, RIPE 542:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-542
Somewhat related, we also have a document describing the RIPE Programme Committee, RIPE 600:
https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-600
Note that writing down what the RIPE Chair is does not need to be super detailed, or restrictive. Hopefully it can be done in a page or two of text.
Cheers,
-- Shane