Hi all, 

To be very clear -- this is not an election. While it's great to see the open and vocal support and we will certainly weigh this in decision-making, I want to make that clear. Discussion and providing rationale for your support for a given candidate (or otherwise) would be appreciated. 

To clarify as well -- we are also looking for more than one additional co-chair. Three is the number that seems healthy and productive to me, but I'm open to suggestions from the community. 

Thanks, 
Meredith 

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Schaa, Tahar <tahar.schaa@cassini.de> wrote:

+1  Achilleas Kemos

 

Von: cooperation-wg [mailto:cooperation-wg-bounces@ripe.net] Im Auftrag von Meredith Whittaker
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. Mai 2016 11:48
An: Gordon Lennox <gordon.lennox.13@gmail.com>; Collin Anderson <collina@gmail.com>; Achilleas.KEMOS@ec.europa.eu; Analia Aspis <analia.aspis@gmail.com>; Johan Helsingius <julf@julf.com>
Cc: cooperation-wg@ripe.net
Betreff: Re: [cooperation-wg] Chairs of this wg

 

Hello again, dear friends, 

 

First, thank you so much for the lively discussion during today's Coop-WG. I genuinely appreciate your enthusiasm and care for this important process. 

 

I have CCed all of the current candidates for co-chair here (I realize they are all also on the list, but as I hope many of you appreciate, I'm a fan of redundancy). To refresh your memory, these are: 

  • Achilleas Kemos -- from the European Commission's DGConnect. He was present today and gave an overview of his work and his interest during the working group. 
  • Collin Anderson -- Network Researcher and Internet Policy enthusist. He was also present today, and provided an overview. 
  • Analina Aspis -- Lawyer and Researcher at the Law Research Institute Ambrosio Gioja, specializing in ICT law. She was not present today, but you can read her overview posted in a previous Coop-WG thread 
  • Johan Helsingius -- (tentative nominee, as above). I'm not sure of his background or interest, but I invite him to disclose this in an email here. 

I invite those on this list to suggest other nominees, to ask questions and make comments to the current nominees, and to continue the lively discussion. 

 

As I mentioned, I will be receptive to suggestions and will work to distill the decisions of the community in a week's time, disclosing such in an email to this list. If there are those here who feel strongly that we should extend the process beyond a week, please speak up here. I am sensitive to the need for discussion, and don't want to rush anything. That said, before the next meeting I need a co-chair. This is the responsible move on my part, to ensure I'm not a single point of failure in the case that I change jobs, have the flu during a meeting, etc.. 

 

Best, 

Meredith 

 

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Gordon Lennox <gordon.lennox.13@gmail.com> wrote:

The outreach bit has proved problematic in the past. I remember a group trying to talk to a MEP. The relationships that are not obvious to outsiders are not always obvious to insiders either!

 

On the other hand I appreciated the work of NCC in drafting a formal response, effectively on behalf of the WG, to a Commission proposal.

 

We need to talk more about this.The potential is there.

 

Gordon

 

On 25 May 2016 at 17:05, Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie> wrote:


there may be room for both here.  The co-op WG has a mandate for outeach
outside the existing community, but the chair function needs to
understand what ripe/ripe ncc is and how it serves its community.  This
is not always obvious to outsiders (e.g. "ripe ncc is not the police", etc).

 



 

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Meredith Whittaker
Open Research Lead
Google NYC






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Open Research Lead
Google NYC