Hi, > That said, should we be looking at term limits etc in the future, to allow > new blood to come forward too? All too easy for newcomers not to put > themselves forward when more experienced people and those doing it for years > are still up for the task.
This isn’t specific to NCC services, and it is a subject that was discussed within the collective of working group chairpeople when I was on it (and no doubt has been since, too). I can see the benefits of a term limit, but I can also see risks — I’d be curious to know if people have been discouraged from standing because an ‘establishment figure’ is in the frame? We have started so see some churn, for example there are relatively new chairs in the Co-operation, Database, DNS, IPv6 and Routing working groups, so I’m not sure there’s a problem at the moment. I’d also point out that there isn’t much opportunity for an ‘abuse of power’ as the chairperson of a working group, so I think the risk is at most stagnation of a group, and that’s something the participants can always fix by doing something (at which point, a new chairperson might make themselves evident). Cheers, Rob
