Dear all, *Please DO NOT reply to this message if you wish to volunteer or propose a volunteer.* In accordance with the chair selection process the term of one of our co-chairs (Janos Zsako) will soon expire and we would like to invite volunteers, or nominations, for someone to become a co-chair of the RIPE NCC Services working group. Anyone may volunteer, and anyone may be nominated by someone else. To do this, please send a mail to ncc-services-wg-chairs@ripe.net before the end of Tuesday 13th October 2026 (UTC). It would be helpful for candidates to provide some words as to why they think they ought to be a co-chair, what new ideas or improvements they might bring, and so on. We will publish the list of volunteers, along with anything the volunteers include with their nomination, to this mailing list on Wednesday 14th October 2026. Discussion and support (or opposition) for each candidate can then be offered on the list. At the NCC Services working group session at RIPE 93, Stefan and Rob will announce the candidate based on the mailing list discussion. Timeline Thursday 1st October This call for volunteers posted to the ncc-services-wg mail list Tuesday 13 Oct Deadline for volunteers Wednesday 14 Oct List of volunteers and call for support posted to the mail list Tuesday 27 Oct Deadline for showing support for volunteers on the mail list Wednesday 28 Oct NCC Services WG session at RIPE 93 References The RIPE working group chair job description is included in ripe-861: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-861/ A guide for New RIPE WG Chairs is in RIPE-765: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-765 The tasks associated with the RIPE WG Chair Collective are described in RIPE-749: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-749 The guidelines for managing WG mailing lists are in RIPE-764: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-764 The RIPE NCC Services working group chair selection process is documented here: https://www.ripe.net/participate/ripe/wg/active-wg/services/ripe-ncc-service... RIPE WG Chair Training is available on the RIPE NCC Academy: https://academy.ripe.net/enrol/index.php?id=16#section-1 (in order to view these pages you need to sign in) Of course, the RIPE Code of Conduct is described in RIPE-766: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-766 As always, please feel free to reach out to any of the chairs directly, to us as a group at ncc-services-wg-chairs@ripe.net, or discuss this or any other any relevant topic on this mailing list.