On 9 May 2023, at 12:30, Franziska Lichtblau <rhal...@old-forest.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-05-08 at 09:40 +0200, Melchior Aelmans wrote: > >> One question, as it's not clearly forbidden, is NCC staff allowed to >> be a WG chair, partake in NomCom, etc? I would say yes. >> > I think it absolutely should be allowed. We want the NCC to be rooted > within the RIPE community and excluding them from active participation > would not support that goal. In my experience if you are actively > involved in a community you get a way better understanding of the inner > workings and principles. For the NCC staff that means better input to > their decision making process. > We try very hard to get people to engage and participate in the RIPE > community - let's not reduce that pool unnecessarily.
while i do not see any particular harm in WG chairing, the RIPE chair nomcom had to tread a fine line in separating chairmanship and NCC and therefore I think it is best to be cautious due to conflict of interest, but it does not mean that nobody from staff can participate: rather, to protect variety of opinion by avoiding single group of taking control. such issues can be handled by the charters lf such bodies though; we didn't discuss PC, or NRO NC, but same approach applies. > The document states very clearly, that NCC staff needs to disclose > their position. This is something we already do by, e.g, asking people > to disclose their affliation when commenting on the microphone. So we > already know how to deal with potential conflict of interests with a > lot of different stake holders. good point, likewise a meeting etiquette can handle other multiple hats one may wear. -- dk@ (PC member; not NCC) -- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options, please visit: https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-list
