Hi, On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 05:16:33PM +0100, Horváth Ágoston János wrote:
While this is very insightful (thanks for sharing, Erik), I think we are switching from professional to a personal level here.
If anywhere, in RIPE NCC, physical presence should not be viewed as a number one priority. Even a 'company-sponsored' chair can be denied travel by employer or have other business to take care of during the meeting week. If physical presence is an issue, I propose we fix that problem, not accept and then enforce limitations.
We might all wish otherwise, but "chairing a working group" is really best done in presence... Of course it will happen that a WG chair cannot attend - and this is why WGs have two or three co-chairs. But this needs to be the exception. So, a WG-chair-cancidate needs to be aware that this will busy him two weeks a year, and that this comes with travelling - but I do not see an issue with this in the current candidate set. They all are not naive newcomers but seasoned DB veterans that have attended enough meetings to understand what will be asked of them. Gert Doering -- some experience with WG chairing and meeting attendance -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (0)89/32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279