<html theme="bilue"><head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body text="#485663"> Dear all, Probably like many others, I haven't been following the RIPE Chair nomination process as closely as it has deserved over the last number of months. At the moment, the lineup looks like this: - the current RIPE chair is now - with safeguards in place - the RIPE NCC managing director. - one of the candidates is the previous chair of the RIPE NCC executive board. - one of the candidates is a current employee of the RIPE NCC. - the chair of the nom-com is a current employee of the RIPE NCC. This isn't a statement of lack of confidence in any of the people concerned, either individually or collectively, but it looks troubling from the point of view of governance practices. In the future, anyone should be able to look back at the nomination process and with full hindsight, feel comfortable that it was sound. I am not completely sure that we are in this position right now. Nick </body> </html>