On 18.05.17 13:56 , Job Snijders wrote:
If we sought to avoid "overly polemic debate", I expect that we'd show restrain in the application of rethorical devices.
Such as "You are of course entitled to your opinions."? "https://xkcd.com/605/" cannot be repeated often enough. Let me note however, that with that you made the implication, a rhetorical device, that by stating events in the past I was as making predictions about the future. I was not! I just stated that the chair naming their successor has worked once. And it has.
Also, we should be conservative in our judgement on how other organisations (RIPE NCC, IETF, ITU, ICANN, etc) select their leadership, for better or for worse. Since there is quite some overlap between these communities, unfounded criticism may lead to alienation.
Of course we should be conservative in judgement. However I have not heard any judgment of other organisation's procedures in this debate so far. All I have heard here is good arguments that these do not apply to RIPE. Daniel