Hi, On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 04:10:16PM +0000, Michele Neylon - Blacknight via dns-wg wrote: > But at a more meta level, why does every WG have a different process for > selecting its chairs?
Back in the day when the WG chair selection processes were formally
defined and written down (in the old days it was mostly "do we have
any volunteer in the room? yes? great!") it was felt that the difference
between working groups were significant enough to warrant different
processes.
I admit part of it was my doing :-) - address policy and ncc-services had
(and still have) a somewhat more formal role in governing "what the RIPE
NCC does", while other WGs are more "special interest groups that use
the opportunity to meet when all the good people are in the room anyway"
- so the interest in serving the WG chair role is different, and so are
the qualifications searched for.
One of the biggest discussion points was "term limits" - in WGs that
have a good influx of chairs, limiting this to "each chair can only
serve two terms and then has to step down" seemed useful, while in APWG,
having the continuity of "no hard term limit" was also seen as useful...
(but they still got rid of me eventually!)
</old man talking>
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