Hello Joe, Thank you for taking the time to read the draft and for your contribution to the previous NomCom. I considered mentioning that the current RIPE chair is both a long time participant in RIPE and a former employee of the RIPE NCC as an example for a number of points made in the draft. In the end I deleted that because I considered the text too long already. If the community wants this mentioned I am happy to add it. As far as the general subject of RIPE NCC staff participation in RIPE is concerned there is a short paragraph in the text which references ripe-810, the document that describes community consensus about that subject. I consider this enough for the scope of this draft. In case I am missing your point please suggest some draft text that should go in this draft. I am happy with rough text. We can refine it together. The scope of the draft is to describe the status-quo that exists. If your suggestion is to add more specific rules, they should go in a revision of ripe-810 or of ripe-787 which describes the selection process for RIPE Chairs. Best Daniel --- Sent from a handheld device.