Mirjam,
On 11/02/2021 13.54, Mirjam Kuehne wrote:
I think we all agree that the overall goal is to have a good and diverse
set of WG chairs and we want to work with all WGs to facilitate that.
Following the recommendations from the Accountability Task Force, we've
started looking at the chair selection criteria of all RIPE Working
Groups. Currently most WGs have terms or regular calls for nominations
defined as part of their selection criteria. We will continue this review.
Thanks for this. It's a bit wonky but I appreciate the review effort here.
In the light of the discussion about chair selection and term limits, I
thought that I would mention that the RIPE DNS working group already has
these limits.
We have 3 chairs, and each chair serves 3 years. Every year one of the
positions is made available.
With this system there is a chance every year for anyone interested in
serving as a chair to put themselves forward.
An existing chair may volunteer again at the end of their term, one
time, so serving a total of 6 years.
We started using this process 6 years ago, so this year we will have at
least one new chair.
Dave sent a good e-mail last year which documents a bit of the history,
plus each individual chair's period:
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/2020-October/003768.html
Cheers,
--
Shane
