Hans Petter,Thank you for the work as RIPE Chair! I wish you, Mirjam and Niall the best in your new roles! - kurtis - > On 31 Aug 2020, at 14:09, Hans Petter Holen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am now stepping down as RIPE Chair and handing over the role to Mirjam > Kühne from tomorrow 1 September 2020. > Niall O’Reilly will at the same time take on the role as the Vice-chair. > > It has been a pleasure working for the community as RIPE Chair since I took > over from Rob Blokzijl in 2014. But as you all know, I will not go far, but > continue to work for the RIPE NCC members and RIPE community in my new role > as Managing Director for the RIPE NCC. > > Rather than waiting for the next RIPE meeting and doing the formal handover > there, we think it is better to do the handover now, so we have a clear > separation of the RIPE NCC MD and RIPE Chair roles when planning the upcoming > RIPE Meeting. > > This has taken a bit longer than expected because we wanted to put in place > proper segregation between the RIPE NCC and RIPE Chair. As RIPE NCC Managing > Director, I have signed an agreement with Mirjam terminating her current > employment from the RIPE NCC effective from 1 September. At the same time, > the RIPE NCC executive board represented by the chair, Cristian Kaufmann and > Treasurer Ondrej Filip, with the assistance of RIPE NCC HR Director and > external legal advisor, has negotiated and signed a new contract with Mirjam > as RIPE Chair for the duration of her RIPE Chair appointment. The contract is > compliant with Dutch labour law but also ensuring the independence of the > RIPE Chair and referring to the community processes as the only grounds for > termination of the position. > > I believe that this addresses the concern raised regarding the independence > of the RIPE Chair. In my time I was dependent on my employer Visma in > addition to the travel funding from the RIPE NCC. Rob Blokzijl before me, was > dependent on his employer NIKEF until his retirement and after that on the > RIPE NCC, both fr travel funding but also remuneration for work for the RIPE > NCC. The latter was not known to me until recently and I apologise for making > erroneous statements about this in the past. > > I wish Mirjam Kühne and Niall O’Reilly all the best in their new roles and > will work closely with them to hand over the open actions. This will be > documented in a blog post on RIPE Labs. > > Kind Regards, > Hans Petter Holen > RIPE Chair 2014-2020 > > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 13:05, Hans Petter Holen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to congratulate Mirjam Kühne and Niall O’Reilly on their > selection as our new RIPE Chair and Vice-Chair. Both Mirjam and Niall have a > long history within RIPE; they are experienced chairs, they understand > consensus, and they share the community's expectations in terms of > transparency and openness. I am sure they will continue to serve the > community well in their new roles. > > After Rob Blokzijl passed the torch to me in 2014, this is the first time we > have selected our RIPE Chair (and now Vice-Chair) as a community. I want to > thank everyone who participated in this process - by standing as nominees, > volunteering to serve on the NomCom, providing feedback, or by helping to > establish the process itself. > > I do want to acknowledge that concerns were raised quite late in the process > about the potential for capture or influence by the RIPE NCC. However, I hope > you will agree that the NomCom has chosen some good people here. It is worth > remembering that we operate on “rough consensus”, which means that not > everyone will fully agree with everything. That being the case, we have > plenty of time to consider further improvements to the process before it > starts again ahead of RIPE 91. There is also an opportunity to work on > improving the process for selecting working group chairs and the community’s > code of conduct, so I would like to encourage you to volunteer for these > efforts under the guidance of our new leadership. > > So what happens next? I am eager to hand over my RIPE Chair responsibilities. > Mirjam and Niall will need time to fit their new RIPE responsibilities > alongside their existing ones. I don't expect this will take too long, and I > intend to exit the role pass onhand overam committed to hand over the torch > as soon as possible. > > I am happy that I no longer have to occupy both the RIPE Chair and RIPE NCC > Managing Director roles. As the Managing Director, I am fully committed to > giving the new leadership and the RIPE Community the support needed, just as > my predecessors have supported me and my predecessor Rob Blokzijl. > > In the meantime, I hope you will join me in wishing our new RIPE Chair and > Vice-Chair the very best... and with my RIPE NCC Managing Director's hat on, > I would also like to thank the outgoing RIPE Chair for his contribution over > the past six years. > > Kind regards > > Hans Petter Holen > (Outgoing) RIPE Chair / RIPE NCC Managing Director > > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 at 12:55, Daniel Karrenberg via ripe-list > <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > The RIPE 2020 NomCom has selected Mirjam Kühne as RIPE Chair and Niall > O'Reilly as RIPE Vice Chair. After interviewing all nominees, hearing > substantial input from the community and a thorough discussion during > three selection meetings all voting members voted to select Mirjam as > Chair and eight out of ten voting members voted to select Niall as Vice > Chair. The selection was subsequently supported unanimously by all > members of the committee. We closely followed the process spelled out in > ripe-727 and ripe-728. We regularly paused to confirm that the whole > committee was comfortable with the process and its progress. > > We were able to choose from a set of nominees who are all very capable > and well respected in the community. We expect that the community would > support any of them as their Chair. Our selection is in no way a > negative statement about the nominees we did not select. > > We selected Mirjam because the input from the community clearly favoured > her. She is very widely regarded as someone who listens carefully to > everyone and who helps the community to find consensus and move forward. > We selected Niall because of the positive input we received about his > track record with the community. Mirjam and Niall convinced us that they > would work well as a team and complement each other. > > The RIPE NCC board has confirmed the candidates in accordance with the > process set out in ripe-727. The original time line called for a > transition from Hans Petter to Mirjam and Niall during RIPE 81 in > October. Hans Petter has since resigned as RIPE Chair because he > accepted to be the new managing director of the RIPE NCC; he is > currently also serving as RIPE Chair ad-interim. In this situation it > makes little sense to stick to the original time line. Therefore we > suggest that the outgoing and incoming Chairs arrange the transition > among themselves as soon as practicable. > > We plan to publish the NomCom report about this first run of the > selection process in September before our term ends at RIPE 81. We > expect to make suggestions for improving the process and look forward to > the community discussing and deciding the process for the next > iteration. > > We thank everyone who supported the NomCom, especially all nominees and > the many members of the community who made time to give us their input. > > Finally we call on the whole community to welcome and support Mirjam and > Niall in their new roles! > > Daniel Karrenberg - Chair - RIPE 2020 Nomcom > >
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