> On 5 Jan 2021, at 14:34, Michele Neylon - Blacknight via cooperation-wg
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Is there a limit on the number of co-chairs a group can have?
Not really. There are no rules about this and that is how it should be. Each WG
gets to choose how to organise itself and agree a charter. For coop, this says
"The RIPE Coop WG aims for multiple Chairs, with two or three Chairs”.
The general convention is a WG has 2 or 3 co-chairs. IMO 4 is excessive unless
there’s a *very, very* busy WG. Three’s probably too many too*. In the good old
days, there was just one WG Chair per WG with a backup/stand-in to cover for
absences. Back then Rob Blokzijl wanted to have exactly one point of contact in
each WG to keep things clear and simple.
* As a data point, it takes far more to run an IETF WG than a RIPE WG: more
meetings and conf calls, busier mailing lists, tracking/advancing wannabe RFCs,
more process to follow, heavier workload, etc, etc. Offhand, I can’t think of
any IETF WG - tls, quic, dnsop, httpbis and so on - which has >3 co-chairs.
