[iot-wg] RIPE Forum issues and the co-chair selection process

It has been brought to my attention that people have been posting support for co-chair candidates on the RIPE Forum, presumably assuming these messages would reach the mailing list. They don't. Or at the very least some list members aren't seeing those messages of support. I don’t know why that is and haved opened a ticket with the NCC’s webmaster. I’ll let you know what they have to say. FWIW the forum-to-list relaying probably got killed or manually moderated to put an end to the spam that used to be injected into the list via the forum’s web page.

If you want to express support for the co-chair candidiates, please comment *on the list* and not via the RIPE Forum. Thanks.

The mailing list is where we take consensus decisions. Comments on the RIPE Forum might not reach the list. And if/when they do, Sandoche and I may need to make subjective decisions about whether those Forum comments are genuine or not. Which will be awkward.