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The RIPE 2020 NomCom will select two persons for the roles of RIPE Chair
and RIPE Vice Chair. We have four nominees who are well known to the
community:
Filiz Yilmaz, Niall O'Reilly, Nigel Titley and Mirjam Kühne.
We have held our second meeting and worked out the plans for collecting
input from the community. Here is a quick outlook about what the NomCom
will do between now and the RIPE meeting, during the meeting and after.
Before RIPE 80
During the coming two weeks the NomCom will have conversations with the
nominees and prepare for the RIPE meeting. We want to hear input from
the community at between now and the end of the RIPE meeting. This is
your chance to influence our selection. The best way to reach the whole
committee is by e-mail. If you prefer you can also contact individual
members of the NomCom. Of course we will treat all input confidentially.
To that end we have even set up a dedicated server, so that we can erase
the electronic traces of our work as well as possible once we are done.
During RIPE 80
We will participate in the RIPE 80 meeting and give a short report
during the community plenary session on Thursday afternoon. On the
Friday of the meeting week the NomCom will hold virtual 'office hours'
for those who prefer to give input in a meeting and those for whom
writing us is simply not enough. Individual meeting slots will be
allocated first-come first served. Contact support at ripe-nomcom.org
for an appointment.
After RIPE 80
Hans Petter Holen has announced that he will resign at the end of April
before he takes up his new role as RIPE NCC Managing Director. Waiting
until RIPE 81 to transition to the newly selected Chairs, as planned, no
longer makes much sense now. Therefore making the selection has become
somewhat more urgent. We are committed
to work more quickly than planned but not to become too hasty either.
Together with the RIPE NCC Executive Board we aim for selection in early
June and confirmation by the board soon after.
We will regularly report on our progress on this mailing list and the
NomCom blog.
Daniel Karrenberg
Chair
RIPE 2020 NomCom
