Re: [dns-wg] Volunteer list for RIPE DNS working group chair

[Jim Reid]

> On 16 Oct 2020, at 00:00, Dave Knight <d...@shl.io> wrote:
> 
>> Maybe have the outgoing and existing chairs explicitly go out and
>> encourage someone who hasn't served before to volunteer?
> 
> I struggle to reconcile our efforts toward impartiality with the notion of 
> having the chairs encouraging a preferred candidate.

It depends on what’s meant by encouragement. I'm fairly sure Paul means 
approaching someone (or more than one) and saying “Have you ever thought of 
becoming a WG co-chair?”. Which would be fine. He almost certainly wasn’t 
meaning the co-chairs dictate to the WG who they must select. Which obviously 
would not be fine.

Encouraging someone to stand doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a preferred 
candidate (after all the WG makes the selection) or impartiality has been 
compromised.