While operational experience is indeed important, the role of a chair is different from a role of a president. I find that a chair will need to invest time, a lot of time, into bringing some much-needed life to the db-wg. The database has not had any notable changes since its original redesign in 1999. All what there was was mostly patchwork than real innovation. As far as I see, this was mainly caused by the lack of general interest. Newbies struggled through the years, but once they learned how to do what they wanted, they were OK with not changing anything on it. This did preserve the status quo. I find the fact that RIPE NCC has a whole-day training course over the use of RIPE DB a sign in itself that it is not for this age. I think no matter who goes as a chair, they have to start breathing life into the WG activities; come up and support real, actual redesign with today's usage patterns, mindset and expectations in mind. That will require precious time that a professional would not have or want to invest. For this reason, I'd like to cast my vote on Denis, knowing that the other chairs would have a more professional background. He does have a lot of good ideas and does have the time and energy to see them through. Cheers, Agoston On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Job Snijders <job@instituut.net> wrote:

On Friday, 4 November 2016, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:

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What role does the database play in your professional work?

is this repeated question trying to elicit conflict of interest?

and could the current co-chairs also answer it? :)

Leadership whom clearly have a stake in the well-being of the database would have my preference.

Example: people that work for orgs that depend on the database for their routing security posture have one up on people who don't even work for a LIR and as such don't face daily operational reality.

Last meeting Nigel stated that he wants to step down because he doesn't do actually work with the database any longer. With new chairs I'd like to prevent such alienation from the get-go.

Kind regards,

Job