Disclosure: I am one of the founders of RIPE and both the first and a current employee of the RIPE NCC. I have also been the chair of the 2020 Nominating Committee that made the recommendation mentioned in the document. I agree with form and content of this draft. In my humble opinion it expresses the consensus that I perceive to exist in the RIPE community. It is encouraging that one of the authors is both a long standing and well respected member of the community as well as the current CEO of the RIPE NCC. Well done! Daniel PS: I do recognise that the times when we were a community first and had corporate (governance) roles second are long gone. However the underlying spirit has served our community well, both in the past and at present. We have nothing at all to gain from erecting excessive formal barriers that prevent individuals from doing the right thing. Oftentimes such barriers are an invitation to be gamed in service of particular agendas. Even worse such rules very often fuel cynical attitudes even among people who are very capable and would rather use their time and energy constructively. As a community we have much to gain and little to loose by welcoming RIPE NCC staff to participate fully and -of course- transparently in the work we do. On the other hand we have much to loose and little to gain by blindly copying behaviours and rules from public or corporate governance that do not fit our situation. Daniel On 21-07-2023 17:32, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
Dear colleagues,
On 14 Jul 2023, at 13:29, I wrote:
Unless there is strong feedback from others in the community not to bother, I will work with the other authors to revise the draft accordingly. After that, Mirjam or I will announce a fresh last-call period.
The revised draft is now available here: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-documents/other-documents/ripe-n...
I take the opportunity to announce a re-opened last call period, to close at 04:00 UTC on Monday, 4 September 2023.
Best regards,
Niall O'Reilly, RIPE Vice-Chair